• Zachariah@lemmy.world
    722·
    2 months ago

    … and then one parent complained, and the admin micromanaged the teacher for the rest of the year.

  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
    681·
    2 months ago

    I remember, in university, at the start of a Latin American History class the lecturer walks in with boxes and straight up asks, “SO WHO WANTS TO DO COCAINE?!?”

    Then proceeds to take out coca leaf tea bags, offers everyone a cup, and explains how she was intentionally wrong in her statement to highlight a big issue. She explained the Native use of coca leaf, and how they have suffered from people using their sacred herb in concentrated and illicit ways.

    She also gave me a box to take home, because I said it helped with my stomach cramps (medical issue), and it really did. No addiction felt either.

    With some teachers you can really tell how passionate they are.

  • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    2 months ago

    My senior class in high school, the French and History teachers got together to plan a senior trip to Canada post-graduation, with stops in Montreal and Quebec. They let us have beers (on our own dime) if we wanted since the drinking age up there was 18, and one of my history teachers even offered a few of us Cuban cigars the last night of the trip since there was no embargo in Canada but we couldn’t cross back into the US with them. Was a pretty good time.

    We were warned the Quebecois could be kinda douchey to non-native speakers, but I found the whole trip was pretty chill, and as long as you were at least trying to speak French to them, they were more than accommodating for directions and help. Was a really memorable trip, 20+ years later still a very fond memory. Good teachers are great.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    I had a high school friend who’s dad was an Arabic language professor. He apparently once read a text to class so boring that he fell asleep while doing it.

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 months ago

    I hope your teachers just doesn’t dump a list of vocab that you must learn without any context. This isn’t an effective method to learn new words.

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
    1213·
    2 months ago

    And then everyone clapped/applauded?

    Edit: okay I’m just not familiar with thise kind of nice & funny things. I grew up in Sweden. We don’t step out of bound there. Like at all. Good for you though! Cheers!

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      35·
      2 months ago

      Only if you’ve never been to small-class-size college. “College professor takes a lesson to do something eccentric instead of the class curriculum” happened in at least one class at least once a semester. You uh, learn a lot about your professors.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      2 months ago

      I once had a teacher take us all down the pub

      Another who decided the lesson would be best spent in the woods and we didn’t get any work done

      Another you could distract by getting him talking about the Simpsons and barely do any work

      My history teacher used to make us role play as Romans and wear togas

      Like these things happen all the time

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      I’ve never had anything this extreme happen, but I did once have a professor who realized that the lesson he was teaching was difficult and boring and, at the end of it, said that he was going to cancel the quiz and to not study hard this weekend because, “if you study too hard, your brain will explode and you’ll die.”

      I had a lot of trouble understanding your accent, Dr. Tran, and math is super hard for me, but much respect for that.