Ignorance in the classroom

geekdude3 · Post by **geekdude3** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:42 pm

A girl in my eighth grade english class didnt know how the sun went to daylight savings time. The teacher told her "When you were snoozing in your jammys, mommy and daddy moved the clock back!" The girl had a sudden look of relization and said "Ooooo!!"

Ecksem Diem · Post by **Ecksem Diem** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:33 pm

Limewater wrote:We were discussing Nationalism and the political climate in the South during post-Civil War Reconstruction in my eleventh grade history class when the teacher stopped class towards the end so that we could all watch the shuttle launch back when they took John Glenn along in 1999 (or maybe it was 1998).

My teacher said that it was a great historic occasion and that John Glenn was the ideal candidate for studying the effects of space travel on aging.

This was stupid because Story Musgrave is almost as old as John Glenn and has over 53 days in space, compared to John Glenn's piddly single trip around the earth. He would have been a much better selection.

Well, that wasn't so much classroom ignorance as it was mass ignorance; after all, that's what NASA and the media were saying as well about the mission. Then again, maybe they were interested in its effects on someone who looks really old.

I would guess that either Musgrave was merely disinterested in the mission, or NASA was trying to rile up some public interest in the space program (for every day that there's even mild media interest in the space progam, there seems to be ten months of utterly absolute disinterest).

theelk · Post by **theelk** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:53 pm

I knew someone who thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger was the president of California. She also said she had a mac, and when I asked her what kind, she "Mac". I managed to figure out that it was a Powerbook, but god she was dumb...

Ecksem Diem · Post by **Ecksem Diem** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:07 pm

Did she have hair that was dyed blonde? This seems to be an increasing prerequisite for stupidity in this country, though I'm not sure why... Interestingly enough, the vast majority of real blondes that I've met are freaking sharp.

theelk · Post by **theelk** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:37 pm

No, she was black, actually. But that doesn't matter. Anyway, apparently she's in some special school now.

Ecksem Diem · Post by **Ecksem Diem** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:10 pm

Thank God for the short bus (both the vehicle and the movie).

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:46 pm

theelk wrote:I knew someone who thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger was the president of California. She also said she had a mac, and when I asked her what kind, she "Mac". I managed to figure out that it was a Powerbook, but god she was dumb...

Ah, I have a similar story. One girl had a mac, and I asked her if it was an intel or Powerpc Processor. she goes "Don't you know anything about computers! ITS A MAC!"

-endorn · Post by **-endorn** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:52 pm

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:22 pm

You noobs gotta stop the unnecessary bumps.

Ecksem Diem · Post by **Ecksem Diem** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:11 pm

On a really busy forum, I understand why bumps that don't add anything to a topic are problematic, but I can't see what the issue with them is on this forum, considering that the topics on the first page date back two weeks.

Just an observation.

benol · Post by **benol** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:21 pm

As a matter of fact, the forums are D-E-A-D! I hate it, and it's boring.

Post by **bicostp** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:31 pm

Yeah, we do seem to be suffering from a bout of "ghost town syndrome"; a lot of the regulars come by less and we get a bunch of tourists (newbies who only post a handful of times then jump back on the tour bus for the next site someone submitted to Digg).

Fun fact: if you search Google for "forums.benheck.com" the first thing to come up is the Pandora's battery without a homebrew PSP thing...

benol · Post by **benol** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:33 pm

bicostp wrote:Fun fact: if you search Google for "forums.benheck.com" the first thing to come up is the Pandora's battery without a homebrew PSP thing...

No surprise there. That's what all the newbies who make like, 2 posts go.

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:54 pm

There really isn't a lot here to begin with.

Like, take a look around this place. Its mostly failed portable projects and forum 42.

illustriouschin · Post by **illustriouschin** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:59 pm

my high school chemistry teacher did not believe in evolution, straight up literal bible was his bag. funny, my boss thinks the same way, except he says that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time because of those footprint pictures that have been thoroughly debunked 30 years ago (and any idiot with a brain can tell those pictures are stupid and not human related at all.