King Ghidorah
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On Probation for Charges of two counts of Saxual Music.
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Post by King Ghidorah on Feb 22, 2012 12:23:47 GMT -5
They told me cursive was important. I have not used it since the 5th grade. And they said I can't start off a fresh sentence with and or but. But I just did it. {Spoiler}swag Anything else teachers led you to believe? |
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Feb 22, 2012 12:24:57 GMT -5
Thomas Edison was a great inventor.
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FinalGwen
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Particularly fond of muffins.
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Post by FinalGwen on Feb 22, 2012 12:29:38 GMT -5
I before E except after C.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 12:30:17 GMT -5
That I wouldn't always have a calculator so I should learn to do fractions and percentages in my head.
Thansk to cell phones I've forgotten how to calculate a tip.
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Post by Bone Daddy on Feb 22, 2012 12:33:21 GMT -5
This wasn't me, but a friend, and its disgusting that she was taught this:
She was in sex ed. They lined up a bunch of guys and threw a basketball at them. One guy caught it, then threw it back, then the next guy, then the next guy etc. Basically they explained that his is what a condom does when you're having sex. Catches the sperm and throws it back so it can't get through.
Then the teacher took a hand full of skittles and threw it at them, and of course they didn't catch them all. According to the teacher, the skittles were AIDS.
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Tarik Dee
Hank Scorpio
I loved you before I even ever knew what love was like
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Post by Tarik Dee on Feb 22, 2012 12:43:11 GMT -5
Columbus discovered America.
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Post by mayabristow on Feb 22, 2012 12:45:04 GMT -5
When I was in 11th grade, I was doing a history quiz & my teacher told me that if I scored a 100% on the quiz I'd get 3 extra stars on my score board. I did manage to get that 100% and I looked on my score board and I was f....king sad that I was only given ONE extra star!
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Post by rapidfire187 on Feb 22, 2012 12:56:18 GMT -5
That I wouldn't always have a calculator so I should learn to do fractions and percentages in my head. Thansk to cell phones I've forgotten how to calculate a tip. This and the thing about cursive. Both turned out to be total bullshit. And in health class they used to tell us that marijuana was a hallucinogen. I wish! |
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Push R Truth on Feb 22, 2012 13:00:05 GMT -5
I remember my 4th grade history teacher told us that the Revolutionary War was just a couple small battles and the Americans beat the British all the way back to England.
It makes you realize just how much damage a crappy teacher can cause. It's wasn't until three years later when I was doing a bunch of reading in my free time that I realized this dude was full of crap.
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King Ghidorah
El Dandy
On Probation for Charges of two counts of Saxual Music.
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Post by King Ghidorah on Feb 22, 2012 13:07:38 GMT -5
I remember my 4th grade history teacher told us that the Revolutionary War was just a couple small battles and the Americans beat the British all the way back to England. It makes you realize just how much damage a crappy teacher can cause. It's wasn't until three years later when I was doing a bunch of reading in my free time that I realized this dude was full of crap. I do volunteer work at this middle school in jax, and the teachers are just people like me, I realize this now. I would be bs'ing the kids too, they like to stage locker examinations just to mess with the kids lol. |
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Post by xCompackx on Feb 22, 2012 13:12:39 GMT -5
This wasn't me, but a friend, and its disgusting that she was taught this: She was in sex ed. They lined up a bunch of guys and threw a basketball at them. One guy caught it, then threw it back, then the next guy, then the next guy etc. Basically they explained that his is what a condom does when you're having sex. Catches the sperm and throws it back so it can't get through. Then the teacher took a hand full of skittles and threw it at them, and of course they didn't catch them all. According to the teacher, the skittles were AIDS. I am never eating Skittles again. Thanks!  |
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Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
Knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them
I've been found out!
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Feb 22, 2012 13:13:24 GMT -5
This wasn't me, but a friend, and its disgusting that she was taught this: She was in sex ed. They lined up a bunch of guys and threw a basketball at them. One guy caught it, then threw it back, then the next guy, then the next guy etc. Basically they explained that his is what a condom does when you're having sex. Catches the sperm and throws it back so it can't get through. Then the teacher took a hand full of skittles and threw it at them, and of course they didn't catch them all. According to the teacher, the skittles were AIDS. Can I assume that this was in an abstinence-only program? |
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Post by rapidfire187 on Feb 22, 2012 13:18:48 GMT -5
Not quite the same as what we've been talking about, but I think it's worth mentioning.
On the last day of school in 8th grade, my English teacher was telling the class all of these incredibly sappy religious stories. Like, in one of the stories, this 16 year old kid and his little brother died in a car wreck on the way to school. Everything was burned beyond recognition...except for their bible. Because...you know...I guess that's the kind of heartwarming story that can reaffirm your faith or something...
Anyway, at one point a student asked a question about Jewish people. Our teacher quickly responded with "Jewish people are going to hell". I immediately spoke up and said "How can you say something like that? What if I was Jewish?" and she scoffed and said "oh honey, they don't allow Jews in this school". Then she reassured us that she's just kidding (I guess so we wouldn't think she was antisemitic or something).
To this day it still pisses me off that this pretentious bitch was spewing this garbage to our class. It disgusts me that there are good teachers out there that can't find work, but this stupid whore was employed until retirement. Her husband was also the principal. This is also the same lady that convinced me to not take honors classes in high school because her son was doing it, and you get no extra benefit from it, the work is just harder. I believed that stupid bitch and got out of the program when I got to high school.
EDIT: I also had a US history teacher that told us that before becoming the dictator of Germany(or whatever his official title was), Hitler held every single political office the country had to offer. Including dog catcher. To this day, I have never found anything that backs this up or met anybody else that has heard that...The shitty thing is that in high school, I always thought she was an incredible history teacher because she would teach us about things that weren't in the books...now I'm kind of wondering if she just liked to bullshit us.
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Bo Rida
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Pulled one over on everyone.
Got away with it, this time.
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Post by Bo Rida on Feb 22, 2012 13:38:07 GMT -5
Loads of global warming propaganda (mixed in with a few facts), if that was 10 years ago I dread to think of what it's like these days.
That taking an AVCE and a "soft subject" was a good idea; the only thing it was good for was their test averages.
That we had a permanent record that would haunt us for ever and ever if we misbehaved.
Pretty much everything else judging by QI.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 13:38:37 GMT -5
That people in Columbus's time believed the Earth was flat.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Feb 22, 2012 13:48:06 GMT -5
Permanent Record.
Scariest. Thing. EVER.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 22, 2012 13:55:41 GMT -5
Typing two spaces after a period is the proper thing to do. Not so much a lie as completely outdated in the computer age.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Feb 22, 2012 14:05:32 GMT -5
Permanent Record. Scariest. Thing. EVER. That was never a thing with my teachers, but I was familiar with it because of cartoons. My little sister's teachers use the permanent record threat though. I like to think they learned about it from the same cartoons I did. |
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khyledeen
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Post by khyledeen on Feb 22, 2012 14:12:50 GMT -5
This wasn't me, but a friend, and its disgusting that she was taught this: She was in sex ed. They lined up a bunch of guys and threw a basketball at them. One guy caught it, then threw it back, then the next guy, then the next guy etc. Basically they explained that his is what a condom does when you're having sex. Catches the sperm and throws it back so it can't get through. Then the teacher took a hand full of skittles and threw it at them, and of course they didn't catch them all. According to the teacher, the skittles were AIDS. LMFAO this is BRILLIANT!, haha, Skittles were AIDS!?, what the frack!?, love it! |
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Futureraven: Beelzebruv
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 22, 2012 14:21:05 GMT -5
Even the red Skittles?  |
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