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#schools #schoolkids #schoollife
Dec 18, 2017 5:41 AM
HayleeGram
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#schools #schoolkids #schoollife
redskiddles
I am this teacher.
darknesses
My high school had a substitute teacher like that, but he'd go way off the rails and waste the whole class lol
WhompingWillough
TIL I'd make a damn good teacher.
Gethec
Had a teacher who would tell a story every time someone dropped a calculator. Once we figured that out, it happened just about every class.
mothernature94
I intentionally go on little side-tangents to break up lessons. It's usually shenanigans or funny stories involving my siblings
DorkJedi
This is why I did not choose the boots-to-classroom option when I left the Marines. I'll launch in to a story with minimal prompting.
thepunnypenguin
I had a finance prof who was always off topic. Best discussion: if someone is cryogenically frozen, are they dead enough to execute a will?
inscrutablehorse
Nothing better than a student asking a question that leads to interesting, relevant off-track stories. That's what makes teaching worth it.
inscrutablehorse
Also, the 140 character limit is fucking shit.
Orion1030
My high school ap government teacher. He was a marine, all we had to do was mention the Marines and we got a 45 min talk
GreatAlfredini
My French teacher Mrs Morris used to tell us stories of surviving Nazi bombings in Hungary. I used to roll my eyes but am now very glad.
cerbralone
Until you are in calculus 1 and your teacher does that several times and you don't understand what the fuck is going on most the time
HarryPotterReferenceProbably
One time our English teacher brought a pot of coffee and just sat at his desk we basically watched him Google jack-o'-lanterns for 40 minute
HarryPotterReferenceProbably
And entire pot of coffee.
PossiblyJewish
Had a professor in a once a week 3 hour long class who would spend 45 min to an hour a week arguing with one student. It was ridiculous.
itki225
julesderamablam
As a teacher I love those days just as much. Great bonding experience with the students. We’re all human
Wankathon
I had a teacher who did that, but at the end of the class he would get angry and say we've done no work. Asshole.
iansebryk
i absolutely hated it when they did that. wasted my time, man. i wanted tonlearn stuff.
Ironbloodalchemist
I am very guilty of this and my students knew...I knew it but I let it happen
Frypanman
As a teacher, we do it on purpose because we were disorganised and didn't plan enough work for the entire lesson
mizadventures
Other peoples' experiences can be a good education.
iamstobes
I love going off on a tangent with my kids! Started with Lapland...ended up talking about they layers of the earth.
SmolTenk
Until you notice that you still gotta know all the shit while you wasted time.
KayNay420
As a college instructor I’ll let you in on a little secret: I do it on purpose if the lecture or lesson plan is light.
toriapinklotus
I used to be a teacher. I'd do this if I couldn't be bothered to plan a lesson.
StevieWundaBred
When you pay 1000 dollars a class and meet once a week, this makes you want to slap your teacher in the fucking face for wasting your money.
Bysiyan
I'm in that situation. She mentioned in one of her stories that she only makes 800 dollars per class per semester. I want to slap my school.
StevieWundaBred
And there's nothing we can do, either don't go, or pay to go and potentially get what is pretty much a defective product with no returns.
PureUnadulteratedBait
In my first year of college we had a teacher that used to tell stories like this, but also talk about random shit like WW2, how much he
PureUnadulteratedBait
hates Jews, how much he hates Germans, how much he hates pretty much every demographic, and the Rothschild family. Weird guy.
valen00
at least he's an equal opportunity racist right?
MMcZee
As a kid there was something mysterious about finding out more of a teacher’s private life. Every clue was a huge deal
forcedfx
Finding out their first name was like WHOOOOAHHH!
MMcZee
In the Netherlands they would tell their full names, some teachers, mostly younger generations, even let you address them with their first 1
MMcZee
name. As long as we would not use it with disrespect:) 2
Smitebetrue
Our social studies teacher was like that. He also would have us debate on our points of view on a topic to try and convince the others 1/n
Smitebetrue
One way or another on a topic. Liked the challenge especially when you can pull stuff off like a "working model for communism" 2/n
Smitebetrue
Really got us thinking and dove deeper into topics. Or we just chatted about hockey or how to incorporate epic rap battles of history. 3/3
OhSchloppy1
And then they still test you on the information that was skipped.
dangerousDoc
One of my government classes in a nutshell
Bysiyan
*Looks at scores* "You're all in college now you should have known this already."
DeepThought78
Once you're in college, you're paying for those stories.
RuijiRiku
Not Mr. Latimer my 5th grade homeroom teacher. A Vietnam war vet, I feel very nostalgic trying to recall his old stories.
honoluludancer
As a teacher I confirm.
Demicol
I had a teacher spend 1.5 hours of a 2 hour class talking about how you shouldn't buy Kinder Eggs and starving kids in Africa (1/2)
Demicol
and then gave us some assignments or we had a test next time or something, don't quite remember. I quit that school soon after. (2/2)
KirschPunkt
He has a point, though. You really shouldn't buy starving kids in Africa.
KirschPunkt
He has a point, though. You really shouldn't buy starving kids in Africa.
Pseudomenos
Or they test you on the story
Mobileuserwholikestoberandom
Have you ever been to the Austere Academy?
UrsaPsi
Had a US history prof who went on a tangent about the French famine resulting in them eating rats. It was on the next exam.
jetflight
... I should do that. I have a tendency to get sidetracked, although it's rarely with my own life, rather tangentially related stories.
gernjer
You should do this. If they get those questions right, you’ll know they’re listening to you.
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jetflight
Huh, that sounds like a good buzzword to use. Let's call it that. Thanks.
7uring
You know what, do that and post the results here. It'd be interesting too see what student pic up fro convos like that.
jetflight
I'll start easy. Have a few questions about the Great Emu War, maybe.