Comments | zats_clear: so, more third grade grammar

zats_clear

so, more third grade grammar

Oct 27, 2009 16:16

This is going to be a looooong year!

complete these analogies
elephant: enormous :: mouse: _____________

Thing One wrote "minute"

Teacher marked X and wrote "small" and told him not to use big words unless he knew their exact meaning.

Webster's Dictionary shows the following:

Main Entry: 3mi·nute
Pronunciation: \mī-ˈnüt, mə-, -ˈnyüt\
Function: adjective
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grammar, are you smarter than a 3rd grader

Comments 27

beanpot October 27 2009, 21:49:28 UTC

The *only* thing I can think of us is that she read it as minute as in a segment of time. I know when I first saw it, that is what my brain read.

holdouttrout October 27 2009, 21:55:19 UTC

I could understand that if she had marked it wrong, but not with her explanation of not using big words.

zats_clear October 27 2009, 21:55:20 UTC

sadly, she knew what he said. she simply chastised him for "using a big word he did not know the meaning of" w/o even asking him what the meaning was.

we will be speaking

beanpot October 27 2009, 21:58:32 UTC

Oh then kick her verbiage lacking butt.

holdouttrout October 27 2009, 21:50:23 UTC

At least you have the internet to back you up when you go to talk to this teacher?

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samantilles October 28 2009, 02:41:13 UTC

*double bonus points for the alliteration pointout!*

blue_meridian October 27 2009, 22:41:40 UTC

Teacher marked X and wrote "small" and told him not to use big words unless he knew their exact meaning.

This doesn't illustrate that he knows their exact meaning?!

I would have suffered terribly under his teacher, I believe. Gah.

archersangel October 28 2009, 01:26:52 UTC

I would have suffered terribly under his teacher, I believe. Gah.

me too. reminds me of this teacher my brother had in the 5th grade that didn't like country kids. the assistant teacher would mark something right & she would go and mark it as wrong.
he was so freaked out by her treatment of him that he woke one morning & couldn't see for about a half hour. (hysterical blindness?) that was scary i tell you.

stargazercmc October 28 2009, 07:27:41 UTC

When you go to that parent/teacher conference, I would highly recommend the school stop using a coach to teach English. Or a band director. Or whomever it is that obviously wasn't schooled in vocabulary and grammar that they have teaching.

Seriously, WTF? How embarassing for that teacher.