Teacher Uses Gummy Bears To Retaliate Against The System

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mattstaff
Apr 30, 2021 5:00 PM EDT

Let this be a lesson to all of us that the power of gummy bears should absolutely never be underestimated. Gummy bears can motivate someone to dig deeper than they otherwise would never will themselves to go. Good for the teacher for using something that they already had to improve a situation from the unwanted place that it otherwise was stuck in. 

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    Font - Posted by u/storymaker1235 15 hours ago O a W 2 13 25 S 25 18 How my 8th grade math teacher fought corporate greed and negligence with the power of gummy bears OC S I know that's a wild ride of a title, but I promise it's all true so buckle up When I was in eighth grade, I was in the first year of an experimental technology school. I had a class of about 180 eighth graders (12-14 year olds) and about 10 teachers. So everybody shared the same math teacher. For our first semester we used a
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    Facial expression - My math teacher wasn't allowed to just move to paper, and the company insisted that the problem was that our math teacher was older and just didn't understand technology. They said that if she had a genuine issue to email them.
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    Font - One day, I get to class, and there are 7 email addresses written on the board. She told us that we were going to go through our math lesson today, and take screenshots of every mistake we found and email them to the companies executives. One screenshots = one email. 10 emails = a packet of gummy bears. We had a blast trying to send as many emails as we could. One kid got ten packets of gummy bears by end of the hour class.
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    Font - By lunch the principal called my teacher aside and asked for her to stop. She said "Hell no! My afternoon classes haven't had fun yet!" Long story short, our school district got all of its money back from using the software, and the company no longer exists (or they changed their brand out of shame. Idk, I just cant find them anymore) TI;dr: the software company said to email if she found a actual issue, so she had an army of either graders, inspired by gummy bears, send thousands of emai
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    Rectangle - Chaotic_Thoughts905 • 107d 2 Awards The power of gummy bears is something that should never be underestimated! G Reply 4 6.5k 3 ...
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    Smile - ikea-lingonberry · 107d As a teacher, I 100% believe this. Especially for packets of gummy bears! What could be a better motivator? Awesome story, OP! Hope this gets to the front page! G Reply 4 1.1k 3 ...
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    Font - ash-on-fire • 107d Honestly, the simplest things are the best motivators. I was running a summer camp of 40 kids, all between the ages of 6-12. Our classroom had a fly problem, anytime the back door opened several would fly in. One day I had enough and told my students that if they killed a fly they would get a shiny pencil. Suddenly I had hordes of kids chasing down flies. Some kids got REALLY good at it, I had one kid who killed like 8 flies in 2 days. My classroom suddenly had no issue
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    Font - Unfitbanana • 107d Imagine what would happen if she threw in a pack of fruit gushers. G Reply 4 153 3 ...
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