Wow you guys had really shitty teachers.....the only thing I would have to say sucked about my education was the 4th and 5th grade school building which basically was run more like a day care than like a school, and how my 11th grade math teacher couldn't teach.

Although, i will say that anything lower than university level education really does NOT promote thinking.

the only thing i really have to say is that my science teacher THIS YEAR is stupid. she's an evolutionist, as science teachers usually are. and i'm normally okay with that since there's really nothing i can do about it, and i'll believe what i want to believe. but the thing is, she's an evolutionist for NO REASON. she has no evidence or anything to support her claims (some of which are pretty ridiculous and not part of the theory of evolution when she says they are). and when i point it out and ask about it, she says "well that's just the way it is. you don't need to worry about it; it won't be on the test."

and that's pretty much what she says about everything. we were learning about atoms, and one kid asked about "what happens when there's more electrons than the ones that fit on the 2, 8, 18, 32 levels?" and she mentioned that it had to do with "orbitals. but don't worry about that, it's not going to be on the test. you'll learn that in high school." our class debated with her for like 10 minutes saying "at least just TRY and explain it; we WANT to know" and she just kept repeating her same thing over and over and she said "you guys would just get confused if i tried to explain it and we have to move on now."

and there's this one kid in my class who's INCREDIBLY smart with science, and he constantly asks questions that my teacher doesn't know how to respond to. she makes poor attempts at coming up with something not true, but the kid shoots down her arguments. then she just says, "well, i honestly don't know. that's a good question. i'll have to look it up." and then the next few days, the kid asks "so did you look it up yet?" and she's like, "oh, no, i forgot. i'll do that tonight." she never looks it up.

and my teacher's idea of science labs/experiments are almost ALL ones that we've done before... in first grade. we did a lab to put a gummi bear in water overnight and then write down what changed. we did that same experiment that year before. and another "lab" was where we had to cut out construction paper and arrange it to look like an atom. that's the kind of thing we all did in 1st grade. my science teacher really doesn't know how to do her job.

maybe he was possibly trying to explain the difference between verbs and nouns? I remember when I was first learning german we had lessons like this because lol everyone else was just some typical dumbass american kid who had no idea what verbs/nouns were

so it was rather difficult for them to figure out even basic phrasing in another language and shit sucked. maybe this is some sort of similar example (to like show that you cant say I yogurted an eat... in other words conjugate your verbs and decline your nouns and dont confuse the two lol)