well boys in my grade (8th) are still really immature and were making Uranus jokes when we were assigned a planets project. My science teacher eventually got fed up with it and said she'd give a detention if there was one more crack. Then in my math class next period, those guys were still laughing with eachother and then my math teacher actually joined them! He said, "Maybe you'd do better on your tests if you stopped looking up Uranus!" and the boys went wild. I was sitting there in shock, like omg did my TEACHER really just say that? Am I overreacting or was that really inappropreate for my teacher to say? I mean shouldn't he be setting a better example? Thanks.
orphans answered Friday May 18 2007, 12:57 am: I'm a nice quiet proper girl, but teachers are people too, you know. So I think it was totally normal for him to say that. Teachers aren't exactly here to set examples for 8TH GRADERS, they're there to teach. You should just laugh it off and thank God that you have an awesome teacher. He was probably just awkward and trying to be cool and fit in with the kids. [ orphans's advice column | Ask orphans A Question ]
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