There is still more than a month before Thanksgiving break, which means that teachers are going to be pulling their hair out and wishing they chose a different profession until then. Memes are the only cure for that level of stress. When I was a kid, I liked to think of myself as a good …
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‘Hand soup’: 23 Misspelled Signs Grammar Teachers Would Fail Out of School
How much damage could an incorrect letter actually do? Whenever you walk past a funny misspelled sign, think about how someone had to write it. Someone had to double-check it, and even triple-check it. Someone’s boss approved it, and someone’s boss’s boss approved it too. Someone had to hang it at a store entrance. It …
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10th-grade student asks his teacher why he has to capitalize his last name: ‘He hadn’t capitalized any proper nouns. He insisted his paper didn’t need fixing and was perfect.’
Why are 15-year-olds asking the kinds of questions that 5-year-olds used to ask? Schools have a major incentive to pass their students, even when they don’t deserve to pass and matriculate to the next grade. They don’t want their school’s graduation rate to be low. If only 60% of high school seniors graduate, the school …
Seguir leyendo 10th-grade student asks his teacher why he has to capitalize his last name: ‘He hadn’t capitalized any proper nouns. He insisted his paper didn’t need fixing and was perfect.’
‘Was this his first ever thought?’: High school kid doesn’t understand how movies work and thinks Leo DiCaprio’s version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was a recording of the actual event of the 1500s
You see what teachers have to deal with on a regular basis? A teacher on Reddit expressed his concern about one of his students for not understanding basic facts of life. On r/StoriesAboutKevin, he explains how they were in English class, watching the 1996 adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, starring Leo DiCaprio and Claire …
Seguir leyendo ‘Was this his first ever thought?’: High school kid doesn’t understand how movies work and thinks Leo DiCaprio’s version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was a recording of the actual event of the 1500s