Student Corrects Teacher, Teacher Can't Handle It

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Eric Lund
Apr 11, 2021 8:00 PM EDT

While it is a teacher's responsibility to know things, they're still human and are capable of getting those things wrong. It's when a teacher says something wrong and doesn't own up to it when things get weird. What's the value in lying to kids just so that you can maintain a false sense of authority? Sometimes teachers don't give their students enough credit, like this tumblr thread about a teacher underestimating their students for a social experiment. With the veritable weirdness some educators display, luckily there are also teachers who pulled total bro moves.

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    Font - Posted by u/asdasds343 1 day ago & A 2 19 e10 3 21 O 17 AITA for not punishing my child after he corrected the teacher? Not the A-hole My 10 year old son had to watch some snoopy cartoon in class during which woodstock eats a roast turkey. The teacher told the class that this is fictional, and that birds don't eat other birds. My son corrected her and said something along the lines of "my uncle trains falcons to hunt other birds at the airport to protect the airplanes"
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    Font - The teacher got upset said he was "disrespectful" and "talking back" and sent him to the principal's office. I got called and they explained hte situation, that he corrected the teacher. I said "well was he right?" and the principal said "it doesn't matter, this was rude and you need to teach your son show some respect to authority" and I told the principal "I'm not going to punish my son or make him apologize if he was right, maybe your teacher should be better educated" The principal lo
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    Font - Reasonable_racoon Asshole Aficionado [17]] 1 day ago 27 e & 9 More respect authority They revealed their true agenda. Not education, obedience. NTA
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    Font - Enlightened_Gardener Partassipant [2] 1 day ago 2 3 2 E 3 I saw someone online say before: sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use “respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority". And sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person" and they think they're being fair but they a
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    Font - snewton_8 Partassipant [2] 1 day ago · edited 22 hours ago 3 2 INFO Your son is 100% correct but if he said this in a disrespectful manner (tone/volume/eyeroll/et...), then that needs to be corrected.
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    Human body - Kill_The_Dinosaurs 1 day ago NTA - It's good for children to challenge authority - also, a teacher should be okay with being corrected, call it a teaching moment. IMO, your child did absolutely nothing wrong.
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    Font - ghostofkilgore Asshole Enthusiast [8] 1 day ago NTA Education should not be about teaching children to mindlessly defer to authority without question. Your son was correct and the teacher should have just accepted that. I mean, who doesn't know that birds eat other birds? School is as much about learning how to interact with people as it is about learning facts. I got in trouble at school because my teacher said the moon was bigger than the earth and I said it wasn't. Imagine being so ins
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    Font - Katt_ler Colo-rectal Surgeon [40] 1 day ago NTA, your son was right that his teacher completely forgot about predatory birds. Although it can be annoying and even disrespectful for someone to be an interrupting smartass, your kid is 10, and no teacher should be threatened by being fact-checked by a 10 year old. If anything they should be praised for sharing their knowledge. The teacher could have just said, "You're right, predatory birds and carrion birds like falcons and vultures do eat
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    Rectangle - zeepz_ Asshole Aficionado [18] 1 day ago NTA: That's how you raise a child Adults are wrong, question everything that doesn't make sense & speak up. We've been conditioned to stay quiet in front of "authority" figures.
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    Font - Sleepy_Heather 1 day ago NTA - the number of times I've seen stories like this about people being punished by teachers for "lack of respect" when they correct false information is staggering and has lead me to believe that the main purpose of American schooling is not to teach facts but to instill unquestioning obedience to those in authority. You were right in what you said to the principal and your son is right in correcting the teacher. Also if the principal's reaction to you not punis
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    Font - Servantofbosco Colo-rectal Surgeon [45] 1 day ago Also carnivorous, there are owls and eagles and penguins. Buzzards would particularly be fond of a roast turkey since they usually go after dead things, lol. Yea it sucks to be told you are wrong by a little kid. But if you are wrong, and even a little kid knows it, then you should be corrected and be an adult about it instead of making this a big deal and making yourself looking like a bad sport and ignorant. NTA See if you can't get the
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