I laughed so hard

Goldknight · Post by **Goldknight** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:32 pm

Being a teacher I fell in love with this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwghabw4N80

While it's pertaining to high school level students I can tell you that college level ones aren't that much different.

Post by **sensei** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:08 pm

Sadly, true, though in the US federal guidelines actually deter parents from contacting college teachers and vice versa. It was depressing to see how many of my community college students last fall kept attending classes, even though they were not doing the reading or preparing the homework, and so their ways of coping with their inability to follow the lesson became an annoying distraction to the others.

One wanted to say, "go find something during this time that you really enjoy and want to do!" But in some unexplainable way they expected to be given a passing grade at the end of the semester in return for the texting or iPod listening that they did. One could only assume that this is the routine that they had learned at the high school level.

College: the inexpensive alternative for institutionalization.

(One hopes that the actual message spelled "message" correctly; that blooper undercuts the final thought IMHO.)

cutiebunny · Post by **cutiebunny** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 6:01 pm

I loved it, especially the last part about "if you want this message in another language, move to another country that speaks it".

We *so* need that in California. Do you know how many different languages the DMV uses for its driver's manuals(but yet, 99% of all signs in the US are in English)?

Ah, it's little things like these that make me love Australia.

Cordelia · Post by **Cordelia** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:29 pm

LOL Bravo for the Aussie teachers!

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:51 pm

theyve been swapping the audio clip of that throughout my district too.
LOVE it!!!

Goldknight · Post by **Goldknight** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:17 pm

What's so sad is I too get phone calls from parents regarding their COLLEGE children when they do poorly in my class. Just amazes me.

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:46 pm

and then they wonder why their 'adult' children wont grow up??

Caroline · Post by **Caroline** » Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:02 am

wow, for real?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jckbhp44is

HOME ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!