I am absolutely not an authoritarian style teacher, although my principal really wants me to crank up the authoritarianism. I really think that I should have been more strict with my students from the getgo, and I am really paying dearly for it now. If my students had to vote on whether I am a hardass or a pushover, I…

Yes, I agree with everything you wrote. If that wasn’t clear in my first post (understandable), I think I conveyed similar ideas in my subsequent posts.

When Westbrook pointed out that it was in alphabetical order, I wonder what their counterargument was?

Hi. So, what are you applauding me for? Is it my “Ok,” response? That cheeky little response is getting far more appreciation than I ever anticipated and feel is justified. And my initial post is getting far more vitriol than I ever expected and feel is justified.

Yeah, it seems as if Stanford is completely fucking up something which wasn’t a very good idea in the first place.

Not sure if you know this, but her name is in fact not, “Emile Doe.” It is a name used in place of her actual name. It is like “Roe v. Wade,” Roe is not her actual name, also how suspects are referred to as “John Doe,” if the actual name is not known or is to be protected.

Recently, students have called me out on the fact that nuclear power plants do exist in Japan, and I was wrong about a Greek god. I immediately agreed and thank the student for pointing it out. Also, I mentioned a historical figure was from Lithuania, when he really was Russian. The next day I called myself out.…

please FYS

yeah, the teacher’s response wasn’t the greatest.

You know what? I pretty much always relent without grumbling when a student points out that I said something incorrect.

He’s considered a liberal hero? my dad listens to him all the time and I never knew that. I doubt my dad knows that either.

Yeah, I think that my dad is influenced by him, much to my annoyance.

there’s quite a bit more evidence of ancient people from the Old World visiting the New World. Ship hulls, linguistic similarities, coins, etc. I am not 100% sure about it, and neither is anyone else.

I guess it depends on a person’s definition of “Completely wrong.” I don’t really care if a teacher thinks that Columbus was the first European in the Americas. Yeah, he/she is wrong, but I would reserve “Completely wrong” for saying it was Napoleon or someone. There is also evidence to suggest that there were ancient…

To be honest, I only got cursed out last year at a different school. I think that many schools are student-friendly to the point of being teacher-hostile. that school is a good example. I taught 9th grade and 9th graders would be socially promoted even with straight F’s. There were also seemingly only very light…

More like half a millennium. Columbus’ journey was significantly more impactful. The Vikings impact was slight which is why it is more of a footnote.

It really is pretty hard to believe that an adult would really think that there were no inhabitants of the Americas before Christopher Columbus. Yeah, I think that the child is misquoting or twisting his teacher’s words.

Paul Molitor was a first ballot HOFer.

To be real, I think that the cruelty directed toward me vastly exceeds the negative vibes I am sending out. Yeah, I cannot even bring myself to acknowledge that I am being cruel here because that is such an overstatement.

Yes! Pretty much how I feel about this! Which is why I am skeptical that the teacher actually did say that Columbus “discovered” the Americas without any mention of existing indigenous people. And because of that, SEVERAL people are harshly criticizing me and calling me racist and unfit for teaching! Yay!