{"id":1619,"date":"2009-09-21T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingteensblog.net\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-09-21T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T22:57:06","slug":"education-is-golden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2009\/09\/21\/education-is-golden\/","title":{"rendered":"Education is GOLDEN."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re going to hit me after reading this, and then reading the title again. It&#8217;s ok though, I understand. And you know me, so you&#8217;ll undertand that I could not resist. I COULD NOT. Of course, I also didn&#8217;t try too hard either, but, well.. that&#8217;s me!<\/p>\n<p>So the general gist of the below video is this: Teacher of Senior English (that&#8217;s 12 grade, 17 and 18 year olds, keep that in mind) slips in an essay question that has parents, teachers and the school board in an uproar. The question?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you pushed your brother down, would you urinate in his mouth?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(And now the title makes sense&#8230;)<br \/>\n(Waits for jaws to be picked up&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the story:<br \/>\n<center><script src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/js\/2.0\/video\/evp\/module.js?loc=dom&#038;vid=\/video\/living\/2009\/09\/21\/teacher.writing.assignment.wmur\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript>Embedded video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\">CNN Video<\/a><\/noscript><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Alright, so &#8211; here&#8217;s the thing. The interview didn&#8217;t say anything about the teacher or her reasoning behind the question as it didn&#8217;t have to do with the book they were reading, only that the teacher was trying to stimulate the students into thinking creatively &#8211; and of course that there are more appropriate ways to stimulate the creativeness of students.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;d really like to know what the teacher has to say about the question, especially since she has a track record of encouraging her students to think outside the box creatively.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I can see why folks are upset, but as Walter Croncrite always said &#8211; we need to know the rest of the story before we get all judgy and jump to conclusions. Of all the comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/videogum.com\/archives\/creepy\/teacher-asks-her-students-to-write-important-essay-on-sibling-golden-showers_091131.html\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> &#8211; only ONE approaches it intellectually:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you really think that this question is some sort of ridiculous, tourettic yelp from the &#8220;living hellscape that is [this teacher&#8217;s] mind?&#8221; It seems kind of obvious that this question has to be some sort of reference to an off-the-cuff remark a student made in class one day. That seems much more plausible to me than a teacher pulling a question like that out of nowhere. -J<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bravo, J, for thinking outside the box there! See, these are Seniors in high school &#8211; these aren&#8217;t elementary kids. These are students that can make up their own minds, yet still think farts are funny. (Because, you know, farts ARE funny &#8211; especially in the middle of the class when it&#8217;s not you, but the uber-prep cheerleader girl &#8211; preferably in the middle of her speech!) I&#8217;d be willing to bet at least one of the kids at some point has threatened about some poor schlub they felt wasn&#8217;t worth it, that they &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t pee on&#8217;em if they were on fire!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My point is this: it had to come from somewhere, and I highly doubt it was just something random that the teacher threw in &#8220;From the hellscape of her mind&#8221; as the article writer states. The majority of her kids, it would seem, didn&#8217;t even blink &#8211; only one went to another teacher for help, and THAT teacher reported it. Now, should we be worried about the kids that didn&#8217;t blink? Or are then on to some inside classroom joke, that the other one missed? Doesn&#8217;t this teacher&#8217;s track record of having classrooms of excited and creative kids that know more than txt speak and LOLcat-isms mean more than one question that raises the brows?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to the story, but I doubt we&#8217;ll ever get to hear it. So chime in! What do you think of this, the question, the teacher, and what would you have done? Keep in mind that these aren&#8217;t kindergartners, these are seniors who have talked about bodily functions in great detail since they were like, four. And likely have siblings they&#8217;ve fartbombed and beat up and done things we as parents really wouldn&#8217;t care to know about, too. So setting your visions of MAH PRESHUSH INNOCENT BABIES aside &#8211; what do YOU think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re going to hit me after reading this, and then reading the title again. It&#8217;s ok though, I understand. And you know me, so you&#8217;ll undertand that I could not resist. I COULD NOT. Of course, I also didn&#8217;t try too hard either, but, well.. that&#8217;s me! So the general gist of the below video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}