Dream Diary: The final Part
I’m happy that the QOTW has fallen in such a way that I can write this up as I believe that my sons teacher has a teaching method that fits well with this weeks subject.

For a bit of an update for anyone that hasn’t read any of my previous posts, a few weeks ago my son was given a dream diary by his happy clappy moon worshipping teacher and for every night my son couldn’t remember a dream I #ahem# added a few creative ideas to the diary ( Big thanks to all B3tans that suggested ideas – I used the ones suggested by Axeman Jim and Evilscary).

I was then sent a letter to meet with his teacher and have just come back from the meeting.

The teacher started off explaining that the homework my son had handed in was clearly not his own work and that due to the fact that he had used a kids show from the 80’s and also using words he (My son that is) would not understand. Due to my ideas I had ruined the maths lesson for the whole class.

My first reaction was “Clearly she doesn’t watch Challenge, Knightmare used to be on every night” and then my brain kicked in again to say “Did she just say ruined the maths lesson? WTF?”

Turns out the diary wasn’t anything to do with the creative writing side of things, they were using the results of the entire class to create a bar chart showing what everyone was dreaming about during a week. I was shown the finished chart, my sons results had been removed so there was no separate columns labelled Hugo Myatt or binary (there was one for Hollyoaks and one for X Factor though, which leads me to think that todays kids have sod all imagination).

I asked the useless teacher if the whole dream diary idea was just an easy way to avoid giving the kids any homework for a week and she burst into tears and fled the room, therefore ending our meeting (What does she do if the kids play up? I didn’t ask her the question in any threatening way and even the wife admits that it was a pretty shit homework task for maths).

I’m pissed off now as I was in the mood for a decent rant at her AND I had to convince my boss to allow me to leave work for this meeting while using up a couple of my days dinner hours to go see this woman.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 12:32, 9 replies)

Man
What a shit teacher!

That's a crap maths homework, even counting cars over the course of the week and seeing the most popular colours would have had more mathematical value than sodding dreams!

Well done Mon, she doesn't deserve to be in the profession, and running out of the room crying at a parents meeting??? WTF?!?!?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 12:36, closed)

I'd been waiting for an update on this!
It's clearly a shit piece of homework. The same function in the maths class could have been fulfilled by graphing height, shoe size, distance from school, number of siblings, etc etc - anything that could be discussed in class and didn't have to be set as spurious 'homework', no doubt so that the teacher could meet the school's target amount of homework per night without putting any effort in themselves.

I'd be incensed if my child was being 'educated' in such a manner. I'd request a meeting with the head to explain your concerns about the teacher's seeming abject lack of intelligence. It's no wonder everyone's thick as shit these days if this is the sort of thing considered school work!

*dismounts high horse*
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 12:37, closed)

reminds me...
of a teacher I had as a wee bairn - Miss Oates, was her name. This was before I was hauled out of the state "education" system and sent to Public school, so would be around 1983/4 time.

Picture the scene - a class of shiny-faced seven year olds, eager to learn new things and swap sandwiches at lunchtime, shelves of books to read, blackboard, various oddments used to engage the kitten-like attention of a class of small kids...and her. Late 30s, but trying to look late 20s. Dresses like a middle class hippy - more Peter, Paul and Mary than Janice Joplin. Bowl-esque hair, flowery skirt, gypsy top, slouch boots and an acoustic guitar. To teach maths.

In the end, our lessons were a round of "Kum by ya", maybe a "puff the magic dragon" and a brief instruction on how to make horse-y "clip-clop" noises with our hands. I learned my times tables at home and was then left to mark the other kids' work whilst she simpered in the corner.

The headmistress had been told by the Local Education Authority that she couldn't be fired, either - only moved to another school, or the Unions would sue. I presume the silly bitch is still ruining childrens' minds to this day.
(Chad, Wed 19 Nov 2008, 11:30, closed)

Fair play mate
what a load of pointless bollocks. For that sort of maths lesson she could have asked for the pupils favourite colour or pets they had at home. 1 lessons worth (not a sodding week).
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 12:38, closed)

its pointless mate
the collecting the data bit should be the minor part of this - 15 mins tally-counting colours of cars would be better.

and as for not sticking around for your meeting - charge her your time for leaving work.

grrrrr.
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Mon 17 Nov 2008, 13:01, closed)

Counting cars....
Yes, while it would have made far more sense to count car colours for 15 mins that probably would have led to several tonnes of paperwork for the parents saying they are "happy for teachers to take children within 20 miles of cars and any other form of transport that may cause injury"

And whatever the outcome the next days Daily Mail headline would be "Teacher makes your kids dodge traffic"

or maybe even

"Immigrant teacher throws children in road in sick counting game" BAN THIS FILTH

In summary, that was a shite homework assignment and I fully support your intervention and subsequent stories.

Bravo

(We’ll this answer stopped me from getting any work done for 5 mins)
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 13:23, closed)

does she really worship the moon
or is she just going through a phase








coat/
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Mon 17 Nov 2008, 17:08, closed)

^this !!
can someone think up a joke involving waxing/waning .. as i can't be arsed..
(mickeyblue, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 10:40, closed)

What??
You mean to say that empiricist criticisms of Kant's epistemology don't warrant their own column in a bar chart in this day and age? Kids these days too interested in X-Boxes, flick knives and stealing cars to consider the key issues in modernist philosophy of knowledge? No wonder the country is going to hell in a handbasket (sorry, been reading too much of the Daily Mail challenge).

That's bad statistics - you don't ignore data because you don't like (or understand) it. Tchuh.
(Axeman Jim, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 11:38, closed)