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[–] GreatWhiteNorth 3 points 0 points (+3|-3) ago 

Do you have proof it's fake?

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[–] brandon816 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Definitely over a decade old. I remember seeing this around that time. http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/hilliker.asp

There wasn't proof for or against it then either.

Sidenote, look at what else from over a decade ago is getting posted today: https://voat.co/v/news/1801043/8818674 . Hell of a coincedence.

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[–] puggy 5 points 38 points (+43|-5) ago 

Fake. No teacher would admit to being wrong about such a simple thing (even if they were).

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[–] everlastingphelps 1 point 14 points (+15|-1) ago 

I don't think you understand how fucking stupid the average teacher is now.

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[–] klobos 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

No, fake because it is signed by a male teacher. A female teacher would pull this shit, a male teacher wouldn't care that he is wrong or bother to write a letter home.

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[–] WhiteTigerScream 3 points 26 points (+29|-3) ago  (edited ago)

Something similar happened to me in 3rd grade, but it was the distinction between bees and wasps. I think we were reading Little House on the Prairie or something. The teacher insisted that bees and wasps are the same thing, or that bees are a kind of wasp, or something. I insisted they were completely different. Finally, she begrudgingly said 'okay, everybody pull out your dictionaries and we'll look it up". She was, of course, wrong, and proved herself wrong in front of the entire class.

She then proceeded to try and convince the school and my parents that I was literally retarded and needed to be put in a special class, and treated me like dirt. I became depressed, hated school, and basically became an elementary school dropout. My parents took me to a different school where I got a teacher that was actually smarter than me, and I did great, started taking college classes in middle school, and now have a master's degree.

Fuck that teacher.

EDIT: Also fuck everyone claiming I made this story up because I needed some sweet, sweet upvotes. Just to prove how wrong and stupid you are, I looked up the exact passage. Page 207 of Little House in the Big Woods,, (page 219 of the PDF) the first book of the Little House on the Prarie series. Yellow Jackets are referred to as bees, which prompted my little 7 year old hand to raise and point out that Yellow Jackets are wasps, not bees, which led to an argument, which led to a teacher being a bitch.

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[–] Konran 1 point 9 points (+10|-1) ago 

When teachers are dumber than dirt we've got a problem.

When teachers who are dumber than dirt get all butthurt because they're shown to be as dumb as dirt, then we've got an even bigger problem.

This is when stupidity turns to malice.

Persuasive evidence for choosing the home-schooling route.

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[–] Mr_Wolf 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

My mom got into a fight with a teacher on how to properly spell apple. My 6 year old brothers spelt it properly but the teacher insisted it was "aple"

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[–] WhiteTigerScream 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Yeah, it's totally impossible. Glad someone like you who knows not only everything about education, but about my personal life experiences could clear that up for everyone. Never in the history of mankind has anyone taken college classes in middle school. https://edsource.org/2016/college-classes-for-middle-school-students-its-happening-in-hayward/93885

Go fuck yourself and burn your keyboard you idiotic sack of shit.

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[–] o_V_o 5 points -2 points (+3|-5) ago 

The teacher insisted that bees and wasps are the same thing, or that bees are a kind of wasp, or something.

....

I don't remember any specifics, but look at all these other details that just happen to make me seem super smart.

Please.

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[–] WhiteTigerScream 2 points 0 points (+2|-2) ago  (edited ago)

Go fuck yourself. I can't imagine how stupid you must be to think that knowing that a wasp and a bee aren't the same thing makes someone super smart.

I guess I should have a doctorate for being able to tie my shoes.

BTW, a quick google search makes it appear to be chapter 11 of "Little House in the Big Woods". The passage that sparked the debate:

"The yellow jackets lived in a nest in the ground and Charley stepped on it by mistake. Then all the little bees in their bright yellow jackets came swarming out with their red- hot stings, and they hurt Charley so that he couldn't get away."

Sorry a 20 year old traumatic memory when I was 7 wasn't specific enough for you.

Please.

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[–] Zinnsee 0 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago 

Please tell me this is satire.

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[–] HuginnOgMuninn 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

This is satire

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[–] TommyW 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Thanks, could you tell me too?

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[–] igotanidea 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

fake? what? nooooooooo way..................... though it stinks of bs it still elicits an emotional response of indignation.

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[–] TeranNotTerran 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

I hope this is fake. But notice the US stamping? Ayn Rand was confident that the dollar sign came from the convergence of U and S. Interesting to see it like that with the full U and not the _ truncated.

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[–] Basharalassad 1 point 13 points (+14|-1) ago 

The dollar sign actually comes from a coin from the Holy Roman Empire called the Thaler which bore the inscription of a crucified snake.

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[–] wuzizname 2 points 2 points (+4|-2) ago 

I'd always believed that the $ sign came from Peso, they used to abbreviate it as PS and over time it overlapped and morphed into the current symbol.

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[–] wuzizname 1 point 8 points (+9|-1) ago 

I find this really hard to believe, that a teacher would admit (in writing) that he doesn't know that a kilometre is a shorter distance of measurement than a mile.

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[–] BistroPalin 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

So this is probably fake, but it's not been conclusively disproven.

Snopes is a crap site, but their analysis covers the basics: http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/hilliker.asp

The most interesting problem is that it uses smart quotes, there's a left double quote and a right double quote. This would be fairly unusual to see in a typewritten letter from 1994. It's also come up that no one can find any reference to a teacher with that name from that time period, but I don't think that is particularly conclusive since there's no central national repository of all teachers names from 1994.

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