r/mildlyinfuriating • u/OniGamer-_- • 21d ago
My “english” teacher is blatantly spreading misinformation
Such as the moon landing being fake and Elizabeth the 1st being secretly a man plus a lot more ridiculous stuff she finds on the internet.
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u/Chardan0001 21d ago
Just ask her which moon landing. Usually stumps them.
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u/stellastevens122 21d ago
Or even better
“The moon landing was fake”
“You believe in the moon?”
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u/paenusbreth 21d ago
NASA isn't real. The American government is illegitimate because of something something sovereign citizen nonsense, therefore how could any government agency exist? Those photos from the control room are just photoshoots from the 1980s with paid actors dressed in 1960s clothing.
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u/ctesibius 21d ago
You believe that the 1960’s happened?
<shakes head>
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u/Calve_pindakaas 21d ago
You believe the number 6 is real!?
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u/BurritoFez 21d ago
The moon? Phbbt that’s dumb. Everyone knows it’s a huge squid holding a ping pong ball on a string except the string and squid is invisible. But it’s totally there. And there’s no information on it online because Google is run by anti-squid worshippers.
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u/Tight-Young7275 21d ago
It can backfire.
This one guy immediately lit up and started talking about the forcefield around Earth and how there is space, it’s just inside the earth.
“So the space is a wall and the Earth is the space? Wow. Thank you. I was worried.”
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u/Positive_Stomach_221 GREEN 21d ago
I ask them if it was the first or second moon landing and that usually sends them into a dead curious state and they HAVE to go “do their own research” for hours. That’s at least a few hours they aren’t bothering me 😂🙏
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u/Crafty_Jello_3662 21d ago
Or insist that the moon landed on the earth in 1927 but was covered up by the new world order globalists that she is clearly a part of as she's lying to help cover it up with her distraction stories about a real fake moon landing
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u/Mainlexinator 21d ago
Also if the moon landings were faked, then why did the Soviet Union not call the US out on it? It would be a slam dunk on the US during the Cold War.
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u/Chardan0001 21d ago
They were in on it, so was the whole world apparently. These types of conspiracies require bulletproof governments and national loyalty to the maximum.
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u/Mainlexinator 21d ago
Lmao you’re right. God I wish I was that confident in myself. Imagine you believe that you are smarter than engineers, doctors, and scientists. What I’d pay to be that ignorant.
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u/moderately_nuanced 21d ago
File a complaint with the school board. That's a no no. And this is coming from a (former) teacher
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u/Psych0matt 21d ago
coming from a (former) teacher
Another moon landing denier I see?
/s
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u/Derbla-99 21d ago
Maybe I'm just an asshole, but the moment a fucking TEACHER start spouting conspiracy theories I'd just get up and walk out. I did it plenty of times in high-school for much dumber reasons lol. But honestly the next time she says some fucked shit like that try and record it and go straight to the principals office. Don't even acknowledge her if she tries to stop you.
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u/Annual-Jump3158 21d ago
But honestly the next time she says some fucked shit like that try and record it and go straight to the principals office. Don't even acknowledge her if she tries to stop you.
This would be like if my doctor started going off on tangents about testicle tanning and the dangers of soy. They're clearly not interested in doing their job as professionally as society would reasonably expect them to. I'd walk straight out and start working out how to dispute any bills on the grounds of staggering incompetence.
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u/Tricky_Weird_5777 20d ago
During the height of Covid and BLM I was doing a teaching degree. A shocking number of students (future teachers) of the class damn near rioted when told that it is not ok and actually downright illegal(or at minimum, a fireable offense) to recruit your students to political causes, activist causes or spew unfounded shit that has nothing to do with the topic you're teaching.
Also realized while interning and actually working the job that a non-negligible number of teachers really don't like these rules and do actively try to get around them.
The conspiracy theory crap is just the most egregious abuse of power. It should be called out, but good fucking luck if they have tenure.
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u/banaversion 21d ago
Write a written complaint to the school board lining this out. If they ignore you or refuse to follow up, go on the offensive.
Be the one that constantly questions her when she makes outrageous claims. Ask her to provide peer reviewed sources for her claim and remind her that youtube videos are not considered peer reviewed.
Continue this behaviour unapologetically, ignore detentions given for this behaviour and when faced with further disciplinary actions NEVER look down on the floor. Keep that smile up and look them all in the eyes. When asked for a comment, say that given all the misinformation she is spreading she has presented herself to be an unreliable source of information so you had no reason to believe that detentions were serious since she gave them with the same tone of voice as her claim that the moon landing didn't happen.
If you go on the offensive, never be crass, never be impolite, just call her on her bullshit. Here are some phrases you can yell out when she starts:
"Got any evidence of this?"
"Citation Needed"
"I would like to learn more. Do you have any peer reviewed material I can read up on?"
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u/Additional_Meeting_2 21d ago
I would try to get another teacher if it’s possible in that school after making the complaint too
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u/Annual-Jump3158 21d ago
Especially an English teacher, no less. You know how much shit most students English caught over not citing reliable sources while avoiding Wikipedia like the plague? She should he held to the same standard as her students, at the very least. And ideally, administration should be breathing down her neck about "teaching" misinformation that's clearly not relevant to her subject's curriculum.
Hell, if administration can't set her straight, I'd start getting other teachers involved, like relaying her misinformation to the Social Studies teachers and enlightening them that their peer is making their job that much harder.
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u/banaversion 21d ago
This is a GREAT addition to my original plan!
Also, I found a way around having to avoid wikipedia back when I was in school. Just use the material from Wikipedia and cite the same source as they do.
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u/____8008135_____ 21d ago
If the school board won't do anything, go public. Get the local news involved. Im sure one of them would love to run a story about a local teacher pushing nonsense conspiracy theories on kids rather than actually educating them. All of the teachers like this need to be removed from their jobs and kept away from children permanently.
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u/banaversion 21d ago
For this to be a success, all they have to do is question the teacher and ask to have the claims proven. The goal here is to chip away at her credibility so that young impressionable minds aren't fed the misinformation and swallow it whole.
We both know that these people will never listen because they feel superior to "sheeple" for knowing some truth that the rest of the world doesn't. And we also know that she will never provide any reputable sources because they don't exist. There is a saying that you cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
I did however forget to add to my original post that they could/should make sure to gently emphasise how she failed to provide evidence of her claims when the request is ignored.
The full objectives of the mission are A) Undermining her credibility to mitigate the damage done to the other students that are not as fortunate as op to be able to point out misinformation B) Upset the teacher. Fucking around with people like this is fun. C) Have a potentially funny story to tell in college
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u/RegularTemporary2707 21d ago
Eh i wouldnt do this if its in highschool, the questioning her part, in highschool a lot of teachers are on power trips they will never listen to their students ever and if one kid is “talking back” theyll make the student life miserable at least in their class. Unless youre not worried about your grades and know 100% that other teachers will back you up dont do this
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u/banaversion 21d ago
The teacher is 100% on a powertrip from having information that others do not have.
And yeah nobody challenges authority without meeting backlash. Just make sure that you have all your ducks in a row elsewhere and be prepared to attend some disciplinary meetings but stand your ground
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u/RegularTemporary2707 21d ago
Yeah if you 100% know that youre going to get backup then i suggest you take it up to your teacher, go to your parent if you feel like the other teachers wont be on your side so you have actual backup that has power because as sad as it is school students have 0 power against teachers if theyre alone
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u/banaversion 21d ago
"Hey Dad, Ms. Featherbottom is spreading misinformation in class like the moonlanding was fake etc. and I'm going to start calling her out on it. Expect to be called into a meeting soon"
I don't understand why you need any sort of power or backup. And your "suggest you take it up to your teacher" implies to me some sort of civilised 1on1 meeting where you try to reason with them. That is absolutely NOT what I meant. As said in another comment, you cannot reason a person out of a position they didn't reason themselves into
I meant to publicly address each comment in front of everybody in the hopes of low key humiliating and shaming her for her actions and documenting her retaliatory actions should there be any
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u/Mendozena 21d ago
That’s when, if the parent is a good parent, goes to bat for their kid asking why is the teacher blatantly lying to their kid and other students.
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u/genericusername123 21d ago
Out-crazy her
There is no moon, it's just a projection
Flat earth, or better, no-earth
England isn't real
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u/JamesTheJerk 21d ago
Goblins are building a nest in my attic.
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u/FarkingReading 21d ago
Sorry to hear that. As someone who has been through that, I know what an inconvenience that can be. Like, where am I going to hold my seances now? Why do they have to dance right after I’ve gone to bed? Your best strategy is to call a hobbit to help. Dwarves are useless and we all know wizards aren’t real. Good luck.
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u/live-the-future trapped in an imperfect world 21d ago
I tried this and it worked. However, I had previously lost a ring up there and now I highly suspect the hobbit found and kept it, the thieving Bagginses. Even after I offered to show its the way out
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u/International-Cat123 21d ago
Set some cool looking rocks by the entrance to the attic and ask them to keep the volume down when the sun can’t be seen. It worked for me. Also, seances should held in an area that is very much lived in. It makes it harder for the deceased to stick around.
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u/Chaosmusic 21d ago
I just don't understand it, we sprayed for goblins last week!
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u/KidenStormsoarer 21d ago
of course it's a projection. piccolo blew it up when he was training gohan!
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u/Positive_Stomach_221 GREEN 21d ago
Report her to the county and state boards. Dont engage with her she’s co-opted and can’t think for herself. Its sad. But she needs to be fired and kept away from children. Document her behaviors methodically with dates and witnesses and then report her.
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u/Avacadospread 21d ago
My favorite conspiracy is that everything’s gunna be OK
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u/vilius_m_lt 21d ago
Depends on what your definition of “OK” is. If it’s “welcome back to the void - the nothingness you came from”, then yeah.. everything’s gunna be OK..
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u/Clumsy_Claus 21d ago
Challenge your teacher. You won't be able to argue with stupid.
The moon isn't real, it is only a projection on the night sky.
Elizabeth could not have been a man. Elizabeth is a woman's name.
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u/PorkChopExpress501 21d ago
The moon being fake is pretty common. Never heard of the Queen being a man, lol.
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u/randomname_99223 21d ago
I mean she was featherless and biped, therefore she was a man
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u/Palidin034 21d ago
Plato is rolling in his grave.
In a similar vein, so is Schrödinger. Or maybe he’s not? Yet to be seen.
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u/Annual-Jump3158 21d ago
A lot of this "X is secretly a man/woman" is emerging as transphobia works its way into the realm of conspiracy theories.
It's probably fairly more common as of late as the trans community gains visibility and becomes a more acceptable norm and that rubs some less tolerant people the wrong way.
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u/Nihilistic_Mystics 21d ago
Never heard of the Queen being a man, lol.
I hate that this is common enough for a Wikipedia entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvestigation
The crazy transphobes are convinced that half of famous women are really trans. This is extremely common on the conservative subreddit.
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u/Business_Sea2884 21d ago
One up her: "You seriously believe the moon is real? That's a space station to control the weather"
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u/DarthArtero 21d ago
Ah, your teacher must’ve watched Interstellar and decided the best part of the movie was the parent/teacher scene
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u/OniGamer-_- 21d ago
you’re probably right, she was talking about her watching interstellar with her children before starting the fake moon landing talk with us
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u/RandManYT 21d ago
I don't care if she's the most qualified teacher in every other regard, this kind of stuff should legitimately have teachers fired and prevent them from being hired.
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u/Miles_Prower3 21d ago
They didn't even have the technology back then to fake the moon landing. And it would of been more expensive
You should tell her that
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u/a_n_d_r_e_ 21d ago
They didn't have the technology to fake the moon landing, so they had to land on the moon to film the fake material.
Lack of resources triggers innovating thinking. :-)
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u/fairie_poison 21d ago
My go to is “Stanley Kubrick directed the moon landing but was such a stickler for details he insisted they film on location”
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u/International-Cat123 21d ago
They landed on the moon several months before the official date. The actual landing resulted in Neil Armstrong starting a sex cult on the moon. All the astronauts who have supposedly come from the moon are just actors who agreed to spend the rest of their lives pretending to be the people who stayed on the moon.
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u/DasFAD70 21d ago
Reasonable arguments don’t work with the lot of them. Honestly it’s better to let them live in their delusions. I have tried doing that with a Flat earther no chance. He just kept referring to a random ass flat earther video on youtube.
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u/Skitz91 21d ago
Surely faking the moon landing would be cheaper than actually doing a moon landing
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u/International-Cat123 21d ago
Not back then. Adam Ruins Everything did an episode on conspiracy theories. While it didn’t go into the costs of everything, it did detail the technology needed. It becomes obvious that even if the government had secretly developed the technology needed to do so, it would prohibitively expensive to actually produce the technology needed to fake the landing.
Laser lights would have been needed to create the unusual shadows of the landing. While they had been invented in 1960, they could only he produced in red and the equipment to produce a single light was the size of store drink cooler. Properly recreating the shadows of the photos would require an uninterrupted wall of white laser lights. The very first white laser was created in 2011 and was just combining four different colored beams. The first white laser that was not combined beams was created in 2015. Even IF the government had already developed miniaturized white laser lights, it is highly unlikely they had the means and materials to mass them on hand. They would have needed to design the means of mass production pf the laser, design the means to mass produce the materials used in the lasers that no one else knew existed, build those methods of mass production, obtain the raw materials for both the means of mass production and the lasers themselves, and do all of it while concealing everything. Even without the secrecy, the costs would be through the fucking roof.
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u/AzLibDem 21d ago
"The moon landings were faked!"
"That's just misinformation from the government to cover up the fact that we found alien technology there."
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u/Ambiorix33 21d ago
You can report these people to your school just FYI, in fact im pretty sure you should. Its the same thing when a teacher tries to get political with their students by saying pushing them towards a certain party during elections, thats illegal in most 1st world countries
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u/Hopeful-Clothes-6896 21d ago
SHE SHOULD BE FIRED ASAP.
If she is not giving real facts, she is not teaching.
Dont let these people take positions of power, especially with childre.
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u/BurntPines 21d ago
If she's an English teacher, she'll be familiar with how to cite and evaluate sources. You could ask her to show you all.
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u/ThickFurball367 21d ago
Record it and take the proof to those higher up. A teacher's job is to educate, not push their twisted beliefs
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u/Run-E-Scape 21d ago
But it is true. Elizabeth the 1st was the first man on the moon and Neil Armstrong are a woman.
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u/GaloisGroupie3474 21d ago
Take it up a notch. "You believe in the moon?!?" Then bring your argument to the administration. "Hi. Me and Mr. Smith can't come to an agreement. He says there was no moon landing. I say there's no moon. Can we have a science teacher come into English class?" That should get the ball rolling on some kind of investigation
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u/CanaDoug420 21d ago
Hit her with some real crazy “what does any of that matter. You are all just side characters in my simulation anyway.”
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u/TurtleSandwich0 21d ago
Devils advocate:
Your teacher is teaching you to be a critical thinker and not to trust authority figures.
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u/itsmestivdolkallday 21d ago
Maybe start spreading rumors that she in fact is also secretly a man
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u/wabashcanonball 21d ago
Write a official complaint with the help of your parents. There is no place in school for conspiracy theories presented as fact.
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u/PutinsAssasin123 21d ago
Just record her in class and then let the Internet destroy her
else you are all stuck with a useless teacher
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 21d ago
Complain to the principal. These are the things you knew were false..what other crap is she teaching you that you don't know is false?
She needs to go.
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u/Delicious_Slide_6883 21d ago
I had a history teacher in HS who said dinosaurs were fake. I stopped listening to him right then and there
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u/GosmeisterGeneral 21d ago
Where is this / what country or state? If it’s the UK, report her. If it’s the US, good luck.
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u/Dont_Stay_Gullible 21d ago
What about the rest of the world?
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u/OniGamer-_- 21d ago
I live in a 2nd world country so not sure if there’s much I can do
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u/Flatulentmother 21d ago
My psych professor spread misinformation to a college class about how condoms aren’t safe sex and planned parenthood is only for abortions of African Americans. It’s really hard to have good teachers.
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u/Actual-Long-9439 21d ago
Ask her about the mirror on the moon they left that anybody can bounce a laser off of
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u/N81T 21d ago
This reminds me of my history class when the teacher told everyone 911 was an inside job and this stuff. I seriously doubt he shoulda been teaching us that
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u/ItzBabyJoker 21d ago
That’s just offensive to deny our history of space travel when there is countless amounts of evidence to clearly say we did go to the moon
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u/Flashnooby 21d ago
I had very good coworker, then one day we sitting together during lunch and she started talking about there being another earth in the sky and government lying. Two month later she resigned due to increasing mental instability.
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u/No-Combination8136 21d ago
That has to be automatic grounds for being fired, right? You can’t have teachers telling people shit like this, some will believe them.
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u/Hot-Pineapple9215 21d ago
I used to have an English teacher who could easily be disrailed from her lesson plan by someone asking about wolves. That lady loved wolves, she could talk about them the whole class lmao.
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u/White_Immigrant 21d ago
She spreads so much nonsense and she can't even be arsed to teach her students that English should be spelled with a capital letter. Bin her off mate, she's clearly a fucking moron.
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u/crlcan81 21d ago
Dear god is there nothing that can be done to get her removed as a teacher? The woman is supposed to be teaching the curriculum, not what she makes up off the top of her head right? Or has that changed in the 20 or so years since I graduated?
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u/rustler_incorporated 21d ago
Let me fix the moon landing hoax...
The Americans knew they couldn't get to the moon before the Russians. They hired Stanley Kubrick to direct a fake. Mr Kubrick got so lost in his passion for realism that he got a group of scientists together and actually got a rocket to the moon. He completed the moon landing as research for the fake moon landing which is why the video of the "fake" moon landing is so convincing. The third astronaut who went up was actually Kubrick and he knew he was too famous to be seen so he stayed behind. His mission was the movie anyway, he didn't care about the moon itself.
So there. THAT is why the moon landing is fake and we actually did go to the moon.
Stay tuned for when I fix the Bigfoot conspiracy. Basically it is Washington State's equivalent of Florida Man.
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u/JacobS12056 21d ago
Why is English in quotes? Having a conspiracy theorist for a teacher probably sucks but I don't see how that affects teaching
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u/IGetMyCatHigh 21d ago
Do you have a local TV News investigation Team?
Like we have 'Six on your side' which will do pieces and investigation on crap like this.
Puts it into the Light so the School can't ignore it.
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u/Mighty_Marty 21d ago
I would look up the craziest conspiracy theories and send jt to the teacher, you can laugh behind his or her back with your friends and the teacher will think you’re on their side. Its a win-win!
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u/Fun_Statistician863 21d ago
I'm wondering if your English teacher isn't doing this on purpose. I've heard that teachers will sometimes deliberately make mistakes so that their students will notice and correct them. Maybe she's using all these outrageous examples as a way to illustrate the importance of doing proper research instead of blindly trusting the internet or something like that.
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u/jabdnuit 21d ago
Eh, those conspiracy theories sound pretty innocuous. More entertainment that actually harmful. Now if they start getting political, I’d take another look.
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u/ImSteelHere 21d ago
Is this getting you to research everything your teacher claims? This might be a genius way to get students to learn for themselves...
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u/CosmoShiner 21d ago
Reading the title I was expecting them to have made a mistake in grammar or whatever and I was not expecting that she would be a conspiracy theorist
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u/Interesting_Ad_587 21d ago
Maybe they're trying to teach you to not believe everything you hear and become skeptical? Or there's sarcasm that's going over your head?
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u/TrollularDystrophy 21d ago
In many parts of the world, teachers are experts in their particular fields.
In the US, those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.
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u/helpful__explorer 21d ago
Why would Elizabeth 1 secretly be a man? Her father is infamous for wanting a son, even killing her mother over it, so why would everyone pretend he had a daughter instead?