She said "If I were going to write my speech on her I would perhaps do another brainstorm. And the first thing that comes to my mind is Lewis and Clark."
Immediately I looked dumb-founded. It was the first day of class so I couldn't exactly raise my hand and correct her, but now I am completely pissed off that a college professor with two Master's degrees doesn't know that Pocahontas stayed in Jamestown and was probably killed off by a bout of disease, not off traveling in the west like the ENTIRE STORY she told. I wanted to cough out "Sacagawea" but instead I jotted a note to myself down on a little piece of scrap paper and stuck it in my folder so I could think about it later. Class ended shortly after but now I was completely annoyed.
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Back in 2002, I had this same teacher for my Comp I class and I really liked her. I excelled and got an A but I do not remember anything like this ever happening. When I signed up for this class I thought to myself "Sweet. I remember her. This will be a breeze!" Crap. Now I can't focus on anything but her stupidity. A college professor who just got thousands of dollars from her students who she is teaching the wrong shit to? Damnit! C'mon! Maybe I should have just corrected her so I could move on and get over it.
Sadly, my daughters teachers aren't any better. They Xerox pages out of workbooks and send them home as homework. No one is learning anything except me, because I have to do YouTube tutorials to figure out how to do her homework. Then teach it to my kid. Maybe the district should pay me the teacher's salary. My daughter even had to sign her name the other day and didn't know how to because oh yeah! They don't teach cursive anymore! So what do they teach exactly? I think it may be a question that needs to be addressed with vehemence. Obviously whatever they are teaching -especially at the college level- is freaking wrong! Oh my, this is going to be a long semester!
**Update: 5/13/13. Today in my Political Science class the teacher referred to the book Little Women by one of the Bronte Sisters. Oh dear. Little Women was written by Louisa May Alcott. And I know this because I have read it five or six times. I am hoping this was just a slip up because this teacher seems legitimately smart, but crap. I feel like I am worse off than not going to school at all. This time I did correct it, for those of you that wanted me to the first time. I told him "I am sorry for being a prick student and correcting my teacher, but neither of the Bronte sisters wrote Little Women." Needless to say he thanked me for correcting him; however, I don't think everyone would be as grateful.
Sadly, you have hit on the head every thing that is wrong with our education system. They blame it on lack of funding, which sure, that is PART of the problem. However, this is not the first, second, or even third time I've read something similar to this. Funds to but books for students and other necessities amount to nothing if you have a teacher who is teaching incorrect material. And for the record, I would have corrected her, who knows how many students just went with it because she's the teacher? Could have saved them all a headache. But alas, just remember this incident when she grades things, and make sure she has her facts straight on whatever she is grading.
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