Imagine getting this note from your kids teacher....



How would you react to it?

After doing this:



I would see to it that my child is removed from his class. Not because of his behavior, but because the teacher is obviously inept. Now, it could be the teacher was just having a bad day or whatever...which he/she is allowed....but you're pressed enough to be wrong and not care that the children are getting the wrong information. They should simply just accept your teachings if you are? I can't have that. Then I would tell my kid to respect adults and use a little more tact when challenging authority.

So the teacher admits children should blindly believe anything adults tell them because sabes que 'they're authority'. If this teacher as a child had a professor who told the class to drink insect spray, would he have done that to show he's a good student? Yeah, didn't think so. I'd tell the teacher what to do with himself and praise my child because people who question authorities are EXACTLY what I hope to raise my children to be.

I have to say NY has the best reply. I would be the same way.

i actually got myself into some hot water with this one... My nephew used to come and borrow my history/biography books... and some of them were of controversial topics. I had several great books which discussed how American corporations such as Ford, IBM, Coke helped finance Nazi Germany... it went into great detail about the IBM "punch" machines which is what they used to track the jews/prisoners in the work camps. He went on to explain that each number of a tattoo meant something specific like age/sex/camp etc. Because these machines had to be service by IBM monthly, and the germans were literally buying hundreds of thousands of punch cards, there was no way to deny the participation. Of course there were many others involved...but i digress.

One of my books talked about Woodrow Wilson's involvement with the maker of the movie Birth of a Nation--- the most racist movie ever made, which led to the re-establishment of the KKK. So of course, my nephew being a smartass had to include this information in his research paper on Wilson. He properly sited it, and the paper was well written. The teacher gave him an F and wrote on the top of the paper "Treason is punishable by death!". Well me and my sister went to the school and screamed at that teacher in front of the class... then went to the prinicpal who said "well it's true--- it IS punishable by death". We then went to the school board who insisted that another teacher grade the paper, and the teacher was reprimanded and was forced to apologize.

My nephew WAS the type to fight with her in the middle of class, and she would say "can you back that up?" And he would come over or make me drive him to the library to go find the info! But IMO, teachers should ENCOURAGE kids to question things... instead of belittle them for it.

There is an interesting book called "Educating in the New World Order" which talks about how the standardized tests are now "social skills" which gauge the kids on their ability to comply with society and obey authority... really interesting stuff.

Probably somewhere between NY and wants2laugh.

wants2laugh wrote:

... Woodrow Wilson's involvement with the maker of the movie Birth of a Nation--- the most racist movie ever made, which led to the re-establishment of the KKK. So of course, my nephew being a smartass had to include this information in his research paper on Wilson. He properly sited it, and the paper was well written. The teacher gave him an F and wrote on the top of the paper "Treason is punishable by death!". Well me and my sister went to the school and screamed at that teacher in front of the class... then went to the prinicpal who said "well it's true--- it IS punishable by death". We then went to the school board who insisted that another teacher grade the paper, and the teacher was reprimanded and was forced to apologize. ...

I have been challenging authority since high school and that is the way it should be. Ironically, in grade school they taught us about being free to express ourselves and I believed it - and have been challenging teachers to respect that ever since.

What actually surprises me is how tolerant my school was in the early '60s on the same controversies that later makes headlines and lawsuits because the school thought they could circumvent students' right to tell-it-like-it-is.

Let's just say that I wouldn't be angry. I would let him know that showing out and being defiant was something that he needed to knock off, but he wouldn't be in trouble for having been right.