30 Horrifying Things From American Schools That Foreigners Find Shockingly Weird

There is too much off this in America. Teachers will ask personal questions, then they c**p on it when they don't like or agree with the answer.

Garbage. Person. "Teaching" thats the entire point

Don't start with creative thinking, please.

It's literally the same f*****g thing!!!

No 3 X 4 =12 3 fours. Teacher is correct. what kid wrote is 4X3.

Teachers make mistakes too though, and this is a pretty easy mistake to make if you’re tired

No, you're not correct. See, multiplication has a commutative property, a times b is the same as b times a. It serves no purpose whatsoever to teach a child there is a difference. Talk about making algebra hard for them later, damn. Take your common core and be off with you.

Technically the teacher is very, very badly wrong, because multiplication is commutative and must be taught as such if the children are to learn properly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutative_property

no its not. multiplication is commutative... this is a maths test... not a shopping trip test

I remember a similar problem from my own school days. Appearantly it had to do with teaching the grammar of math. So 3x4 is "3 times a thing with the value of four." So in a shop, if a customer asked for 3 times 4 apples, she'd want three bags with four apples in each, not four bags with 3 apples in each. Seems a bit trivial but as I remember, that difference is important to teach

When I studied teaching 10 years ago we were taught to accept answers as correct (unless specifically stated to use a particular method) if the end product was correct and the steps used made mathematical sense. It doesn't matter how you arrive at the answer as long as you can show/justify how you did it.

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Nope. Task above is 4 x -- = 12 (so looking for "3" as the answer). I've never had or heard of a Maths teacher marking like OP's teacher did.

They are actually equal equations and mean the same thing - 12. That's why you used the EQUAL sign for your EQUAtion. Because the two are equal, ie the same, ie not different.

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Yeah, but (gasp! shock! horror!) they're not allowed to know what they're called, or what their function is, because they're not *old* enough, even though they're studying them. It always confuses me that nipples (am I allowed to even *write* that shockingly shameful word?) must not be seen, and covered at all times (barring wardrobe malfunctions, of course!) because Americans are too puritan in thought, word, and deed (cough).... and yet they're probably the very first things that breast fed babies see, and continue to see multiple times a day, until they're weaned... when they must *never ever* be allowed to see them again until they're 21, or whatever, least they be perverted, corrupted, or shocked witless, or...or... something! WHY!!!

Yeah but what about the OTHER gender?

Naw, It's invisible until they learn about them

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Hopefully the students are only intimately familiar with half.

HOW IS sеx not censored???????

It truly is astounding how many people want to protect unborn babies, but don't give a S***T once that child is born :(

and BP *** out your B O M B oh how b L E E d ing stupid is that.

Brawndo's got what plants crave.

Those are migrants.. and they actually went to non American's schools

That is what happened to Laura Palmer.

Yes

Colleges do this all the time. I had a prof list his expensive book as required reading and then when I tried to sell it back, I got almost nothing for a 50 dollar 200 page paperback.

This is extorsion. Unfortunately all too common in the uni system.

i feel like i would have taken a picture of this slide and shown it to the principle(dunno if he would actually do anything, but it would be worth a shot)