It occurs to me that "newer" in this context could mean 1911.
At that price, in that neighborhood, this is almost certainly true.
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2009 10:24:38 am PDT #10694 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Aims - Sep 24, 2009 10:25:14 am PDT #10695 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Fry/Laurie porn
I'll be in my clawfoot tub. In Tarrytown.
Stephanie - Sep 24, 2009 10:26:40 am PDT #10696 of 30001
Trust my rage
Jessica's post has me looking at houses in the neighborhood. Only the associated mortgage calculators are depressing me.
Steph L. - Sep 24, 2009 10:27:10 am PDT #10697 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
if it's something that distracts the kid from learning what they are supposed to be learning, then I say, sometimes. It should be used sparingly and only in situations where the teacher really knows her kids and knows how the kid in particular would handle it.
I emphatically disagree. Humiliating a student is uncalled for, and I can't see how it would do anything other than put the kid off that subject/school for good. I've never heard anyone say their path in life was steered right by that really good dose of public humiliation they got from their teacher in front of the whole sixth grade back in P.S. 131.
It's really a gross misuse of the power imbalance in the classroom.
Sparky1 - Sep 24, 2009 10:29:10 am PDT #10698 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Is humiliating a kid to make a point to the entire class about something as bullshit as text-speak really worth it?
I think how you posed the question is not how I would pose the question. In my mind, I'm reading the discussion as something more like: whether or not a teacher has a right to give a zero grade if a student hasn't answered a question satisfactorily.
msbelle - Sep 24, 2009 10:30:02 am PDT #10699 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Didn't she say the student wasn't named? I was called out in classes in school and not always humiliated by it, even to have my paper or answer held up as a bad example.
Amy - Sep 24, 2009 10:31:46 am PDT #10700 of 30001
Because books.
I think if this particular kid *had* been humiliated, Aimee might have posted a very different story.
Steph L. - Sep 24, 2009 10:32:34 am PDT #10701 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think how you posed the question is not how I would pose the question.
That's okay. We just see different aspects of the issue.
Miracleman - Sep 24, 2009 10:32:52 am PDT #10702 of 30001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
She's one of those people that teaching is just innate for.
Honey, it's "for whom teaching is innate."
-2 points.
(I'm so going to get it.)
Personally, I think Aims' sister wasn't lenient *enough*. I would have shot the student in the face. Seriously. Pulled a gun and just shot the girl right in her face.
Ow. Bit my tongue. Shouldn't keep it in my cheek.
Cashmere - Sep 24, 2009 10:32:59 am PDT #10703 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I was in an advanced English class in the 7th grade where the teacher hung a diaper on the chalkboard because she felt we were being "babies"--she had to go back to diagramming some sentence structure after the whole class performed rather badly on a written assignment.
Over the top? Maybe. Humiliating? Yeah. I don't bear any emotional scars from it.