Of course, teachers are human too, and the emotional impact of being constantly challenged in the classroom can take a toll. “It was so frustrating,” Jennifer says about her flat-earth student perpetually derailing the classroom with his conspiracies. “He literally made me feel like I was a fraud, and it didn’t help that I was a new teacher at the time. When he’d tell me I was wrong and that these are the ‘alternative facts,’ I could feel my class lose their trust in me. It was a crazy power struggle for sure.”
Sounds like that kid picked your weak Marxist arguments apart with some flat-earth shit. I wish I knew what I did now back then too. I have a few teachers in mind that I would have put on blast with some spicy facts that would have made their Commie heads spin.
I dunno, I visited some relatives yesterday, and one was ranting about how HCQ cures every disease known to mankind. Look, it helps with three or four things, and it probably reduces the severity of a coronavirus infection if taken early with zinc, but it's no more of a cure-all than any other drug.
So, depends on whether the kid's "alternative facts" were actually facts or were just the ravings of the "anything you say I'll make up the opposite" side.
Edit: If I were a teacher, I would absolutely love having a kid like that in class, to destroy the whole "the science is settled!" narrative. One of my favorite moments in law school was when I inadvertently took down and pinned and choked out one of my professors -- and it was one of his favorite moments too, because it taught everyone something.
Of course, teachers are human too, and the emotional impact of being constantly challenged in the classroom can take a toll. “It was so frustrating,” Jennifer says about her flat-earth student perpetually derailing the classroom with his conspiracies. “He literally made me feel like I was a fraud, and it didn’t help that I was a new teacher at the time. When he’d tell me I was wrong and that these are the ‘alternative facts,’ I could feel my class lose their trust in me. It was a crazy power struggle for sure.”
Sounds like that kid picked your weak Marxist arguments apart with some flat-earth shit. I wish I knew what I did now back then too. I have a few teachers in mind that I would have put on blast with some spicy facts that would have made their Commie heads spin.
A flat earther no less. If you can't instantly debunk that garbage then you are indeed a worthless teacher.
I dunno, I visited some relatives yesterday, and one was ranting about how HCQ cures every disease known to mankind. Look, it helps with three or four things, and it probably reduces the severity of a coronavirus infection if taken early with zinc, but it's no more of a cure-all than any other drug.
So, depends on whether the kid's "alternative facts" were actually facts or were just the ravings of the "anything you say I'll make up the opposite" side.
Edit: If I were a teacher, I would absolutely love having a kid like that in class, to destroy the whole "the science is settled!" narrative. One of my favorite moments in law school was when I inadvertently took down and pinned and choked out one of my professors -- and it was one of his favorite moments too, because it taught everyone something.