Other's Responses
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the date is 4/20!!! thumbs up if you know what 420 is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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haha wow.. just accept what teacher says kids.. don't think for yourselves or you'll get detention. what is the world coming to...
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ALWAYS challenge authority that talks out of their arses. that's the only way to deal with these people. Well done! Nice to know people still have backbones :D
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How dare Hitler issue a detention on his birthday.
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I've had so. Many. Teachers like this.
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OMFG this shit happened to me! in 4th grade i was the only student who realized that stop signs had EIGHT sides. The teacher convinced everyone that they had SIX. i even volunteered to take us all out to the street corner so we could count them, but was argued into submission. dumbasses...
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...but he was right. She's a retard for giving him detention.
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This teacher = (complete douchebag)^1 billion.
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Mrs. Lombardo, Sequential II Mathematics, Connetquot High School Bohemia N.Y. -spring 1994 The kilo / mile argument was the follow up to her disrupting my convo with another classmate about the recent suicide of Kurt Cobain
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Power to you Alex. Power to you.
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she might as well have said "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!"
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respect my authoritahhh
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Reminds me of a teacher I had once that insisted that a right angle was 60 degrees... moron.
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Sounds like when my 6th grade world history teacher told the class that Constantinople fell in 1534, which is when I stood up and corrected her, because it fell in 1453, as every history book I have read clearly states. Her response: " They don't know exactly when it fell."
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How dare that b1tch encourage blind obediance, never mind PUNISHING a child for being more intelligent than her.
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Viva La Revolucion!
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The detention is dumb enough as it is, especially since the idiot that calls his/herself a teacher is wrong. She needs to celebrate 420 & then go back to teachers college
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420 is national weed day, Hitler's bday, and Columbine. Huh.
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Yes. Give the kid detention because he knows his facts. Intelligence? Not allowed.
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"He was correct" should also be highlighted.
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Although he was correct.....
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holy shit thats fascist.
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oh my god, thats so bad and hilarious....and it sounds a lot like my geometry teacher
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this teacher is so stupid!!
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What does this note accomplish other than justifying (even the teacher knows she herself is wrong) that his/her teacher is a b****?
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4.20 is epic!
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If i were that kids parents i would be proud, and i would verbally tear that teacher to peices
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4-20! thats my birthday!... and Hitlers birthday... and pot smokers holiday... god; thats a devious day.
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This guy is boss.
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wow i had a teacher exactly like this for algebra in ninth grade. she gave me detention because i contradicted her when she said that pi is exactly equal to 22/7. the only difference was that she never admitted that she was right.
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420 friendly
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If the teacher says it's right, even it's wrong, it's right.
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"ALWAYS challenge authority that talks out of their arses. that's the only way to deal with these people. Well done! Nice to know people still have backbones :D" I would vote you up, but your comment currently has 420 votes. I don't want to be the one to change that.
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On the other hand, you don't want a teacher like the kid, who won't accept the way things are (or are not, as it turns out). My science teacher contradicted the text book. We believed her and were all marked wrong by another teacher correcting our exam.
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I corrected a history teacher when he said that "Roosevelt decided that dropping the atomic bombs in Japan was the only solution to end the war" . I raised my hand and said "respectfully sir, Roosevelt was dead. President Harry S. Truman did that". He looked at HIS book to verify and he looked at me and said "I need to talk to you after class". WHAT?
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to the guy who said "thumb up if you know what 420 is". that happens to be Hitler's birthday as well as the day the Columbine High School shooting took place.
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Lol, like my teacher was trying to explain significance number (1.000 etc) That 1.000 could be either 1.004 or.. then he didn't know the other one. He kept wrong down 1.0something. Then I just walked to to the board and wrote down 0.995 and left.
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1 kilometer = 0.621371192 miles
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Haha thats my birthday. April 20, 1994 :D
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if i was alex's parent, id be like high fiving him and telling the teacher hes a moronic food
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errrrrr...wtf??? This must be a fake or I'm gonna find and kill that teacher if this is true
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Green is not a creative color.
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some teachers have too much pride to accept their short comings. major teacher FAIL!!
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If this is real, I hope his parents took him to a movie and got him a big ice cream Sundae or whatever else the kid likes. I'd do that if I were the parent. I'd also explain to my kid that this won't be the first time he has to deal with a powerful idiot.
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My teacher told the entire class that "0.9 (repeated)" was equivalent to 1, and I argued that it was technically rounded. He insisted that if the nine's never ended (as in 0.999999999999999999999999999999999999999 etc. because that's what repeated IS) that it would eventually turn into 1. When I argued with him, he said "Don't worry, I have a student like you in my class every year," and then he continued on with his lesson.
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we are really lucky to get such teachers yaar...thank god for such a bloody blessing
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That class minus Alex are forever destined to get that question wrong on a test. That Teacher might as well have been a borg. Giving him detention when he was right? Wtf!?
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This is to guy who wrote this....(to the guy who said this: haha wow.. just accept what teacher says kids.. don't think for yourselves or you'll get detention. what is the world coming to... YOU ARE RETARTED. the guy was right so clearly it was right of him to question the teacher. Teachers think they are the rulers of the world, they all have serious power trips. well most of them. your response ...sucks. you fail)....You should obviosly see that the original writer was being sarcasstic. Gosh...
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Bullshit. If I was Alex's mother, I would get her fired.
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1994, or 2010? I'm serious. Welcome to the hellhole that is my school.
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Maybe the Teacher was High?
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This is so fucking obviously fake its not even funny
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EPIC FAIL!!
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Resistance is futile. Alex shall be assimilated into the horde.
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4/20 is my dog's birthday - but she's not called Blondie ...
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Honestly, even I misread it as "When HE insisted that....", like a lot of others here. Then I re-read it and realized.
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Dear Fook, I like your name very much. It reminds me of other words that i cannot say. I will bribe you with my penny that I will send to you in the next decade. So, what do you say, I'll give you a penny, if you advance my grade up from a D- to an A+. If you don't accept, then I will have to use force. I am sorry. But I will have to 0wnz0rz yew n00bz0rz. Though, don't be too frightened, I will do it very quickley. Do not ask how, just accept. Sincerely, Your worst Student.
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The letter was written on April 20th. It predicts the future apparently, Alex was assigned detention on the 22nd
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Thumbs up.
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the teacher is an idiot for the kilometer crap. and s/he is a fucking idiot for ruining 4/20. thumbs up to 4/20 though
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The teacher is a douchebag
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4/20 weed day hehe
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Sorry what is the signifcance of 4/20 or 420? Just looks like a date to me. What obvious pun am I missing here?!
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In 5th grade the same thing happened, my teacher fought with me for 10 minutes because she thought 5 BC was before 50 BC, and that apperently 1 BC was the beggining of time :/
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1994 ...dark times >_______>
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Next time Alex will deny the earth is the center of the solar system
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So Alex gets detention because his teacher is fucking retarded
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4/20 is the b´day of this crazy german guy i know, how was he called.....hitler^^
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"Even though he is correct"
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Thumbs up if your 'abstract' or 'incorrect' reasoning was recognized and commended by a teacher as correct.
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Freedom is the freedom to know two and two is four
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lmfao 4/20!!! imma go light be some!!!
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Pink slip on teachers desk the next day saying the reason for firing: one of your students is clearly more educated then you are, and from your letter to his parent, it is clear that you pretended to be a unintelligent person for the sole per pose of getting him into trouble. I will not allow for such immature and corrupted behavior in my school. PS now those students must be re educated from your BS and you need to go back to school.
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Are you smarter than a 5th grader? Apparently not.
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That is not alowed. He/She can not give a student a punishment for correcting the teacher. Ofc if he started to insult him/her that part about respect and all that would be a fair call, but for correcting the teacher... FAIL!
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And this is why American test scores are so low. Teachers= FAIL!
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Lol Maybe the teacher is like related to Hitler or a Nazi.....Obey or die
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4/20 is Hitlers birthday O_o
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I hope this teacher was fired.
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I'm confused now. 1 Km=approx. 0.62 mi. If that's true, then her statement would have been true, and his false. So why does she say that she was wrong and he was right? Could she have forced her views upon the parents as well, by making what was wrong seem right?
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This moron shouldn't be a teacher, and deserves no respect. What an idiot.
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My 3rd grade teacher sent a note home after I challenged her decision to mark me wrong with my spelling of "xylophone". The asshole teacher insisted the word was spelled "zylophone".
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I wonder if it's the same thing when I had a math teacher insist that "circles have 365 degrees, one degree for each day of the year".
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Wow, It's my science teacher!
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sometimes it is easier to give in to the fact that most of these teachers will make your life miserable. I had a physics mark or 76% in a half assed canadian education system. while talking about energy propagation through water. after me explaining that she was mistaken. that a wave energy moves the water as it passes through. she told me i was stupid. So i asked if she was so smart then why can a seagull sit on top of a wave. she was stumped. kicked me out of class and i was not allowed to return to that class. had this conversation taken place a week later i would have had an average good enough to just squeek by. instead i got a 48%. The only reason i did not pursue a career in education, or continue my education to the post secondary academia is because my education system only set me up for complete and utter failure. compiled with debt I took a trade and have been well paid since high school. strived to gain certifications in my field and all the wile i can barely do long division(calculator kid)
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Everyone assumes this is a female teacher. I'd bet anything it was a dude.
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this is how most medical school professors and clinical attendings in teaching hospitals act.
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I find his lack of faith disturbing...
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my birthday is 4 20..... BEST BDAY EVAAAA nuff said.
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Thumbs up !!!
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everybody knows that a mile is a lot longer than a kilometer
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Reminds me of when my teacher tried to argue that "it's" was possessive. I won that argument.
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lol WEED!!!
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They forgot to mention that "every other student" had had a lobotomy prior to taking her course.
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When I was in year 4 I had a teacher that told the class that Mars had a gravitational force so strong that you would get sucked into the planet. I got told off for saying that it was weaker than earth. Haha.
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These are the kind of teachers that right the math benchmarks. The benchmarks for this year insisted that triangles had adjacent angles in it... IM SORRY BUT NO ANGLES TOUCH IN A TRIANGLE.
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... NO TEACHER. NO.
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sounds like something from 1984 by Orson Wells
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Lol this is 2 days after my birth :)
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no way, not real
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Come, SUBMIT TO THE DARK SIDE, SKYWALKER!
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Hey, in High School I challenged the teacher on a Geometry question and proved the answer key wrong. She had to do the math herself and not accept the "Teachers Addition as Gospel.
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Huh? First of all, one kilometer is NOT longer than one mile -- it is .62 of a mile. So for the kid to argue the point is stupid on his part. For the teacher to come back and say that he was right (when SHE was right) is stupid on her part.
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4/20 is also same day those poor bastards got shot up @ columbine
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When I insisted that one kilometer is greater than one mile", not "When HE insisted that one kilometer is greater than one mile
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NEVER challenge authority. ESPECIALLY if they are wrong. I wouldn't be unemployed if I followed this logic.
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are you kidding me ? so he should learn to accept that the teacher false teaching are correct even though they clearly aren't . I wish this happened to me so i could laugh in the teachers face!
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BUT A MILE IS 1.4 KILOMETRES!
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MY BIRTHDAY IS APRIL 20TH 1994 HOLY SHITT! :D and i fuckin LOVE WEED
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Kid probably freaked out cause he was probably baked seeing as it was 420.
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Hey kids, just accept your teacher's false remarks and move on. LMAO
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TODAY IS 4/20 !!!!
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I love how he's getting in trouble for being right. "He's right, but wrong for defying authority! NEVER CHALLENGE AUTHORITY!"
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If I was a parent of this child, I would come to school and told the teacher that she is a fool, and she cannot teach nor have any authority.
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except... a kilometer is more than a mile. 1.6 km equals 1 m.
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I'd request a parent-teacher conference and b.itch slap her if I received a letter like that...
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soooo if you contradict the teacher, even if he/she is wrong, you get detention. DUBBLEYOO. TEE. EFF.
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Hahaha, why do the teachers in America insist on acting like it's still 1950? xD
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The student didn't get detention for contradicting the teacher. He got detention for being rude, calling the teacher a liar and disrupting the class. The proper response would be to suggest the teacher was "mistaken" inclass and if she disagreed say that you'd check it after class than spend the class rolling your eyes and correct the teacher afterwards. I've done it before to teachers and had it done to me as a professional.
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I just KNOW I'm going to get thumbdowned for this, but there are ways of telling the teacher that they are wrong and calling them a liar is not a good one. Much better to say that you believe they are mistaken and ask them to prove or justify what they are saying with external evidence. I quietly told the teacher who presumed to try to teach us French that she was wrong at the end of a lesson one day - NOT in front of the class, only to be bawled out by my class teacher; Needless to say I WAS right... but like Alex I was told NEVER to challenge authority.
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The teacher then go on to say "Although he was correct..." WTF?! He's getting punished for being right! No fair...
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this teacher needs a beat down
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in soviet russia you WILL OBEY
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My birthday is April 24th hahahah 4 days before mine!
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d^^b 4/20!
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How do Fucktards like this keep getting into positions where they have power over other people?
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HOLY SHIT MY BIRTHDAY IS APRIL 20TH, 1994! :D thats fucking badass. and i love weed. also this was pretty funny.
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Hmm. My eighth grade English teacher tried to tell us that "prohibit" means to allow. Idiot.
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Does Alex go to a Nazi school?
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Solution to this problem. Line up all dumb teachers against a wall. Then point to each and yell: YOU'RE FIRED!
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I was right. It was a woman!
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"commanding other students to challenge my curriculum". Something tells me this kid is going to become a revolutionary
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Teachers: right, even when they're wrong.
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O Wow.
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why did she give him detention. was it because after being wrong again she knew they had no respect for her so she made them fear her. WTF....... if she is so stupid then why is she a teacher if the kid is smarter than her.
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fuck teachers like that. hope they rot in hell. true story!!! happened to me!!! i told my teacher she was wrong. then she got mad and voodoed me. my life is fucked since that moment
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What. The. He**. Punishing a student for being RIGHT. THIS IS AMERICA, OR WHAT AMERICA HAS BECOME!!! This makes me lose faith in not only america, but it also makes me lose faith in humanity.
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dude no lie but thts my borthday... april 20 1994. haha thts awesome
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wow he had detention on the day i was born! lol
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Hitler's Birthday!!!!!!!
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lol
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Can anyone say "Borg"? The assimilation process has started.
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4/20 is my birthday and national pot smoking day
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dickhead teacher...
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BERNIE RUDNICK!
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Shred up the note and go punch that teacher in the face for being an idiot.
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alex honored hitlers birthday by saying fuck you to the kilometer!
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I once lost a history competition because I said that "USSR" stood for "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", while my competitor got equal credit for his answer of "United Soviet Socialist Russia".
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My psychology taught our class that that all light from the electromagnetic is derived from "gray" light. I respectfully disagreed, but I don't have a masters degree so I'm barely capable of feeding myself let alone being right. I'd tell her to stick to Psychology, but she's not even very good at teaching that.
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so the teacher got something wrong, then a student corrected her, and the student was right. what's the problem?
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April 20th is my birthday lol!
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I know what 420 means in the Indian language :p
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OMG what a stupid teacher, or she must be fucking high XD
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Wow somthing similar happened last year, our teacher was doing the same thing, here's what happened Teacher: one kilometer is longer then one mile. Student: no, it's not Teacher: give one reason why i am incorrect Student: you have bad internet connection Then the whole class proceeded to laugh the sh*t out of themself
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I wish that kid was my son! I would kick the teachers ass so hard he would have to eat through a mechanical straw for the rest of his life!
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Join meh Luke to teh dark side!!! Do not resist, kill ur girf friend, and belive that 1 kilometer IS longer!!! Muahahahaha!!!!
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reminds me of my sister wasting an entire period in year 12 arguing that world war 2 ended in 1945 the dumb ass teacher said 1943
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My mom would RAGE at the school if this happened to me xD
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I´m mexican, but studied elementary school in the U.S. During high school here in Mexico my "english teacher", mexican as well, stated that desert and dessert meant the opposite. Even he pronounced them wrong. I corrected him in front of class and that was it. He failed me because he would´n t recognize his major mistake. What a stupid looser! Of course I went to the principal´s office and after hearing both stories and our allegations I was excused from the class the rest of the semester, with an A+.
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that is so stupid. if someone thinks they are right they should stand up for it! i remember one of my teachers tried to tell me that "banana" was spelled "banna" and i KNEW that it wasnt spelled like that, but it all ended with her telling me i was wrong and that was that, i still i wish i could go back and tell her that i was IN FACT right.
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"challenge my curiculum" MY GOODNESS, HE'S A KID.
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420 is my homeroom... :p
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what does 420 means ??? pls. tell me
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For shame Math teacher, for shame...
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this reminds me of the time when my teacher said the led zeppelin's stairway to heaven was originaly a poem, then the music was added later. i said, "um, i dont think that is correct. i actually believe that its the other way around..." then she yelled, "NO, NO!! stairway to heaven is a POEM!!!"
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I hope Alex skipped detention. Standing up for what is right is the best way to show respect for the school. Incorrect information should be corrected.
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Hitlers Birthday
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Holy shit, five years later... COLUMBINE SHOOTING. Coincidence? Yeah probably.
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This is exactly what George Orwell predicted. I say it is better to be punished for being right, than accept lies, and falsehoods in the name of expedience.
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While in detention, Alex met a few chellovecks who became his droogs as they planned to have a horroshow time with the gloopy sod.
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"I insisted that the length of one kilometer was GREATER than that of one mile" This is the teacher speaking: she says at the end that she was wrong and indeed she was wrong. She said a kilometer - which is 5/8 of a mile - was greater, longer, further than one mile. Which is nonsense. I worry about all those saying Alex was wrong......
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4/20 is the bithday of adolf hitler as well as the international Marihuana day
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It was young Alex Jones
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You did right. I wish caused an uproar when the sex ed teacher said the morning after pill was an abortion pill. I wanted to lunge at her throat, but i did not have the courage. Thank you
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All I see is "Although he was correct" lol
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420 is Pot Day... if your wondering..
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the columbine massacre -> 20th of april *99
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I had a teacher in 8th grade English argue with me over horizontal and vertical lines. She was wrong.
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He got detention on my birthday! Woo hoo!
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Behold the people in chage of your childrens future
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This is the kind of teacher that creates an audience for Republican-boneheads like Rush Limp-dick-limbaugh..."I'm going to lie to you dumb-ass ditto-heads and you're all going to bob your drone-like heads up and down in unison."
the date is 4/20!!! thumbs up if you know what 420 is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!