To not have corrected teacher?

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I sat in a KS1 Geography lesson today.
We were looking at the country Spain.
Teacher told the children that never snowed there and that the only way to get there was to fly.
What about the Pyrenees?

Have you heard of a ferry?

top of the class badlad

I also have a belief that teaching is an exchange, anyone coming to learn from me, better teach me something,

They know this, so children/adults go out of their way to find something I don't know.

Has the definition of 'disinterested' changed, LaQ?
Or did you mean 'uninterested'?

Live and learn.
www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2011/04/the_nonplussed_problem.html

I'm a TA and last year had to correct the teacher I was working with several times. I would never do it in front of the children, and luckily she was very good natured about it, and actually asked me to correct her if I spotted any mistakes in future. Some of her mistakes were pretty bad though. We were teaching year 3, so 7/8 year olds.

We read a book set in Africa once and the children had a list of questions to answer, one of which was 'Which country is the book set in?' The children all answered Africa and were all marked as correct!

Another time, the teacher wrote a maths question on the board which began '5 boy's are going to the shop..'

She also misspelled giraffe as 'girrafe' and grizzly bear as 'gristly bear!'

There were many, many more, including lots of maths ones - by her own admission she was awful at mental arithmetic.

Thankfully, I have been working with a lovely new teacher this year who never makes mistakes and always double checks if she is unsure of something.

Alittle bit off topic but ny six yr old [yr 1] asked me if I knew who florance nightingale was well yes I,m a qualified nurse![they had been doing history]

Did the teacher spell the name incorrectly and without capital letters for a proper noun?

You do breathe out carbon monoxide if you smoke

I've got the book, LaQ!
I couldn't believe it when a friend posted the link, but it a truly fabulous piece of Bonkerdom.

www.amazon.co.uk/Dinosaurs-Eden-Biblical-Journey-Through/dp/0890513406/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372957169&sr=1-1&keywords=dinosaurs+of+Eden

My DD is a 22 year old with a highly analytical mind who has been known to make grown JWs weep and run.
No, it wasn't her.

The Bible is the only 100% reliable history book. Dinosaurs have been proved by scientists to be reptiles. God created animals, including reptiles, on the 6th day. He created Adam and Eve on the 6th day. QED!

It has lovely, highly coloured illustrations of Eve cuddling scuttellosaurus and Adam sharing berries with iguanadon, a Chinese guy walking his kentrosaurus and St G killing a baryonyx.
Noah rescued some of them on his ark.
It was written by a man who is apparently a leading Christian speaker in the States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Ham
It is a thing of wonder and hysteria in my house.

more than once I have heard by people who should know better,

That the reasons we have legends about dragons, is because they are stories past down from ancient ancestors who would of seen dinosaurs.

China has many dragon legends, but they also have many dinosaur fossils and the bones are used in medicines. Dragons/dinosaurs maybe, but the fossils, not rampaging sauropods.

yes, i'm sure fossil and bones inspire, but there is a m

We appeared 6 to 7 million upright, 4.1 million years ago separated from common ancestor with apes, the Cretaceous Period ended 65 million years ago and with it the dinosaurs, big gap.

mind you they did have a good innings, we are so self destructive, we will never get close to their time on earth.

Eyes "Dinosaurs have been proved by scientists to be reptiles."

Have they bollocks. Dinosaurs are birds. Birds are Dinosaurs.

FFS WW I was quoting from my book of demented dinosaurs in the garden of Eden written by a Christian Fundamentalist Young Earther.
Please don't think I'm that ignorant!

There are homeschoolers in the states who choose to homeschool purely so they can teach that one single view to their children. I used to sell Usbourne books over there and I knew exactly what kind of day I was going to have if I was requested to remove all books abou/containing dinosaurs, faries and homosexuality at a book fair.

And/or....

LaQueen - yes! I'd be quietly smirking to myself...one has to find amusement in particularly shit days!