The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for November 10, 2014
November 09, 2014
November 11, 2014
Transcript:
Teacher: Mrs. Peterson, I need to speak with you about a, um, special student joining your class... Mrs. Peterson: You know my rule, they pull their weight or fail. No special treatment. Teacher: I'm not asking for - Mrs. Peterson: Well, you'd better not be. Remember last year? I had to fail one of your "Special cases." She could barely read or write! Teacher: She was an eight-year-old certified math genius who has just been adopted from Romania!! Mrs. Peterson: No special treatment means no special treatment! Read or fail - no exceptions!
Squizzums about 10 years ago
Where did she get her teaching certificate? Thunderdome?
Metavenger about 10 years ago
Can’t we just get Beyond Thunderdome?
personal counter goes to 2 someday… someday…
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 10 years ago
Education changes, for better or for ill. When I was 4, I kept pestering my dad to teach me how to write my name. My teacher at the time said not to because I was “too young” to read and write and it would somehow damage my tender psyche. Thankfully, my parents decided that if I was old enough to keep asking, I was old enough to learn.Then we see CA, which used to have some of the best public school systems in the country until they revamped their reading curriculum. They chose to emphasize some new-age notion of holistic understanding instead of focusing on reading each word one at a time. Now they have some of the worst school systems in the country, and woefully underfunded to boot. Rigid ideology is narrow-minded and always the wrong approach.
jbmlaw01 about 10 years ago
Tenured teacher union member.