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jolrei:
Quote from: kiki on 2009 June 11, 13:00:30
I ended up graduating approximately 18 months younger than everyone else in my class, but was equal dux of my grade senior year despite it. I spent most of my school years attempting to not appear to be that much smarter than everyone else and blending in, because in the modern schooling system you do NOT want to draw attention to yourself if you're too far advanced of the system you're in.
Yeah, I tried the "blending in" thing, but I was the victim of a tribe of sadistic educators who decided that 3 or 4 of us would be singled out as the poster boys for their "advanced student" policy. This was ostensibly so that we could be seen as "tutorial resources" by the less apt students (trans: torture victims for the crowd that rubbed "tattoos" into their arms with pencil erasers and would not believe that I knew what an infection looked like).
I told the kid that his arm would get gangrene and fall off, mainly to relieve the boredom.
LMahesa:
Quote from: jolrei on 2009 June 11, 13:19:46
I told the kid that his arm would get gangrene and fall off, mainly to relieve the boredom.
You'd be done for child abuse for doing that in the UK now, and probably end up as a permanent entry in a List somewhere. Those were the good ol' days.
rohina:
Quote from: teebs on 2009 June 11, 07:14:26
My main concern with the whole concept is the incessant brainwashing used by teachers or the university to further their own social/political agendas. I've seen first hand the power that professors wield over children away from home for the first time. Their mindset is similar to that of someone being indoctrinated into a cult. I watched a teacher actively use cult tactics such as love-bombing to further the agenda of a sociopolitical organization of which she is a member.
Yeah, asking students to question the assumptions they have grown up with is exactly tantamount to "indoctrination". Screw you, you anti-intellectual blue-collar elitist.
MuertoElBarto:
Quote from: professorbutters on 2009 June 11, 08:43:04
Rohina, a lot of my students aren't even clear that Shakespeare wrote plays. They insist on calling his work "books," or worse, "novels." And I don't think many of them can do something as practical as knitting.
I thought he was an old TV writer way back in the 70's. He wrote those Three's Company plotlines - the ones that centered around mistaken identity, where hilarity ensued.
rohina:
Quote from: jolrei on 2009 June 11, 13:19:46
Yeah, I tried the "blending in" thing, but I was the victim of a tribe of sadistic educators who decided that 3 or 4 of us would be singled out as the poster boys for their "advanced student" policy. This was ostensibly so that we could be seen as "tutorial resources" by the less apt students (trans: torture victims for the crowd that rubbed "tattoos" into their arms with pencil erasers and would not believe that I knew what an infection looked like).
I told the kid that his arm would get gangrene and fall off, mainly to relieve the boredom.
Oh, the forcing of the smart kid to "tutor" its bully. I refused to go to school for an entire week after my teacher tried that one on me in Grade 6. MiniB awesomely resists this by being really unhelpful. She got a bad mark in leadership because she stuck her fingers in her ears during reading time and refused to help the less able readers.
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