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What would you do?

I'd have history lessons that would consist of RL scenarios and treating the kids respectively, considering what era I was teaching. Teaching the rise of Christianity? Take the long-haired skater and duct-tape him to the white board.

Teaching WW2? Get that crazy kid to make crazy speeches and get the entire class to join him in a giant quest to take over the school. Yes, classroom to classroom destruction!

Oh, and yes teaching the War of 1812 will consist of burning a model of the White House and burning the British capitol in Canada. Just for sheer fun of burning things. :)

Teaching WW2? Get that crazy kid to make crazy speeches and get the entire class to join him in a giant quest to take over the school. Yes, classroom to classroom destruction!


I did that normally! Already a step ahead I guess...

I would teach things really well.

Encourage individual learning. I would certainly be there as a resource for them to use, but they should be figuring out stuff on their own. Stupid, snivelling little brats can't expect everything to just be handed to them, that's unrealistic. In the real world you're going to have to apply concepts in new ways, figure things out on your own, might as well start sooner rather than later.

The physics of mud surfing. :)

I would get fired.

Encourage individual learning. I would certainly be there as a resource for them to use, but they should be figuring out stuff on their own. Stupid, snivelling little brats can't expect everything to just be handed to them, that's unrealistic. In the real world you're going to have to apply concepts in new ways, figure things out on your own, might as well start sooner rather than later.
I have a teacher like that, but more extreme. I'm in 10th grade Chemistry. He's at the point where he doesn't tell us anthing. He just kind of hopes we'll figure it out, which can really be bad if no one figures it out...

If you were a teacher.....

I'd get the damn school districts down here to hire me dammit! If I don't have a job this school year and have to sub agian someone is gonna die....and it won't be me.

I have a teacher like that, but more extreme. I'm in 10th grade Chemistry. He's at the point where he doesn't tell us anthing. He just kind of hopes we'll figure it out, which can really be bad if no one figures it out...

Has anyone died or suffered a major injury yet? If you all get out with the same number of limbs you came in with, how bad can it be? If you don't, sorry, those are the ropes. Survival of the fittest and all, you know.

If I were a teacher I'd make The World's Most Dangerous Places required reading for my class, no matter what I was teaching. I'd also petition the administration to hire people with degrees to teach history, instead just assigning a coach with an empty period to do it. I had three high-school history "teachers" who I had to remind that the War of 1812 was just one of many other times America was attacked on it's own soil (jar-headed bastards). I'd also try to get corporal punishment put back in order. I still have to deal with people who never got their butts whooped enough when they were kids.

I would tell them that all their history books had lied, and then teach them the REAL history of Canada.
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I would teach 8 year olds, and my syllabus would consist of passages from 1984, Brave New World, StarShip Troopers and any other sci fi book I can think of with insane philosophies in it.

Young children, lacking a sense of irony, would come to believe everything I told them was truth, and would then proceed to dump me and take over the world or something.

What would you do?

I'd have history lessons that would consist of RL scenarios and treating the kids respectively, considering what era I was teaching. Teaching the rise of Christianity? Take the long-haired skater and duct-tape him to the white board.

Teaching WW2? Get that crazy kid to make crazy speeches and get the entire class to join him in a giant quest to take over the school. Yes, classroom to classroom destruction!

Oh, and yes teaching the War of 1812 will consist of burning a model of the White House and burning the British capitol in Canada. Just for sheer fun of burning things. :)

;D teach the kids to make Plastique, Gunpowder, and rocket-fuel from common household products, since it's absolutely verboten to teach them newtonian physics using guns... but I suppose I could get away with using ballistic computation and such in a math class. I'd either wind up fired, in jail, or having my students on FBI "Watch" lists...

I am a teacher. :eek:

Teaching WW2? Get that crazy kid to make crazy speeches and get the entire class to join him in a giant quest to take over the school. Yes, classroom to classroom destruction!

Watch the movie/play The Wave or read the book. Didn't turn out so great.

Watch the movie/play The Wave or read the book. Didn't turn out so great.
Read it back in 6th grade. Pretty interesting. I should read it again actually.

I would not teach about WW2 since for every year I was in school, I learned about WW2. It gets annoying after the second/third time.

I would teach about WW1 then teach them various war tatics.

Teach more military history of Britain. In an end-of-term quiz a team of 4 quite intelligent girls put down '1066' as the date of the battle of Waterloo. I mean come on!

Watch the movie/play The Wave or read the book. Didn't turn out so great.

Horrible book. It made no sense, why would the students make a nazi-like organization out of a simple school project.

The Wave was a tad far fetched, but think about experiments like Stanley Milgram's at Yale to see how easily led people can be.

However... If I were a teacher, I'd ensure that people knew some basic history (besides WWII) before they tried to study it at university and made my life more difficult than it has to be when I try to teach them there!

I would teach mathematics

Teach American History in an unbiased way and put more emphasis on world history. (If it was history I was teaching.)

It is important to instill curiosity in children... so they WANT to learn. None of that memorization junk. Things they can work out for themselves.

Horrible book. It made no sense, why would the students make a nazi-like organization out of a simple school project.
The Wave was a tad far fetched, but think about experiments like Stanley Milgram's at Yale to see how easily led people can be.
far fetched, maybe. But also based on a true story, and quite accurate to what actually happened.

I would teach history, math, and/or physics through song/music.

Sit them in front of reality TV and turn them into brainless zombies. Kids are already a lost cause, lets just ensure they can do no harm.

Slightly off topic, if I had it my way i'd implant a small device under every childs hand. If they misbehave, ZAP! And the electric shock continues until they back down. If they continue, the power of the shock is gradually increased. Also I'd issue all teachers with a cattle prod-just in case.

I would teach history, math, and/or physics through song/music.
History through the medium of interpretative dance! :)

It is important to instill curiosity in children... so they WANT to learn. None of that memorization junk. Things they can work out for themselves.
Couldn't agree more.

History through the medium of interpretative dance! :)
Sure, They Might Be Giants works for anything involving graveyards, fast moving passenger trains, or anything after the mid 80's or so. But for the periods prior to that I was thinking more a chronistic Top 40 and the occasional Jonny Horton song. "Oh in 18 14 we took a little trip/ ...."