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To: servo1969; Liz; Red Badger; SunkenCiv

WOW!
And, yes, I see dozens of “on-line” do-my-(simple)-homework-problem-for-me requests.
Many with illiterate and unintelligent questions from the teacher.


5 posted on 02/21/2022 9:33:09 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

I was once put out of a spelling bee (50 years ago), when our teacher asked me to spell “wrench”. I asked her if she would use it in a sentence. She said, “You know, like you’re trying to wrench something out!”

She was one of only a few African-American teachers at our school in those days, and all of us young kids were trying hard to understand her dialect.

Well, I could only give it a shot, since I still didn’t understand. Turns out w-r-e-n-c-h is not the way to spell “rinse”, which is what she thought she was saying.


51 posted on 02/21/2022 11:51:14 AM PST by HeadOn (Love God. Lead your family. Be a man.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

A high school girl in our church was having trouble with math, so Hubby, PhD in Physics, tutored her a few times. The methods she was supposed to use made no sense at all (”new math”? - I don’t know), so DH showed her how “work the problems” and figure them out. She learned.

Only trouble was that she became a target for the teacher. The kid explained how she arrived at her answers, and the teacher had no clue. Teacher just followed the written text.

The girl was so harassed and tormented by Teacher that the parents had to move her to another class.


72 posted on 02/22/2022 7:04:57 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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