Inappropriate mnemonic from school?

[Angelofmycoins]

Son is doing exams Y11 - he has just told me they were taught this mnemonic in science (physics?) when they were in Y9:

'Gay X-men Use Vibrators In My Rectum'

(for remembering types of waves ie gamma, x, uv etc)

Aibu in thinking its inappropriate? He did remember it so he argues it worked!

For context, fee paying school, all boys.....

Meh. At least they’ll remember it.

What!!! I'm a mathematician - never heard that ever. Explanation please!

No actual cocks or orgasms are involved.

It's trig, right angled-triangles - SOHCAHTOA.

Sine opposite hypotenuse, cosine adjacent hypotenuse, tan opposite adjacent. I can't remember exactly what you do with it, but as I've not needed to since 1988, it must have been well drilled into me that I still remember.

It’s weird that the brain does sometimes seem to hold onto slightly risqué or irreverent rhymes etc.

Some of these are pretty OTT though.

Your DS is talking rubbish, he got it off the Internet. Google it!

Lots of people commenting that it’s dirty - does it not smack of homophobia as well? It does to me! I’d definitely say something.

oh come on teenage boys would think that hilarious and something they won’t forget. i can’t imagine why he has told you or why it’s any of our business what rhymes our year 11 kids (nearly adults) are learning in school. not like they haven’t heard about dildos and rectums already

@Angelofmycoins it’s literally the first thing that comes up in reddit. With a date stamp of 8 years ago. I think you need to drop it and move on. Your son’s teacher did not make this up just for them.

I think for me the issue is that these mnemonics can be funny (although many of them are unpleasantly misogynist and the one quoted by the OP is homophobic) and I can imagine my son as a teenager and his friends making them up and giggling, but they are absolutely inappropriate for a teacher to use with a class. Context is all.

😂

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Stalactites have tits in them. And they usually hang... that's how I was taught it, and it clearly stuck 😂

I also know the order of classification as "Keeping pants clean often favours good sex". Never forgot that and I can still recite the order perfectly to this day because of it.

These mnemonics work. The one your son's teacher used is crass and yes, inappropriate, but it doesn't surprise me, given how many try to be lads' lads. Have a word with them, rather than report it, and keep an eye out for reoccurences.

StalaGmites Grow from the Ground
StalaCtites Cling to the Ceiling

Ffs my teachers told us nothing about stala-anything!

This story is off Reddit

Never eat shredded wheat is safer 😆

It’s true tho

He/she probably did but maybe it wasn’t in the form of dodgy mnemonic so you don’t remember it - I rest my case 🙂

WTF! That is so inappropriate. If it were my child, I would definitely complain to the school. That isn't even a learning/teaching aid, it's just pure misogyny.

It's homophobic. Teenage boys finding something funny doesn't mean that it was appropriate and an OK thing for a teacher to say to his pupils.

It’s so wrong!

Hilarous,
But very wrong.

Trying to think which of the x-men were gay..?

Dramatic · Yesterday 21:39

I only remember which way stalagmites and stalactites go because our teacher taught us the phrase "tites (tights) must come down"

Our geology teacher taught us:

Stalagmites stand mighty, stalactites hold on tightly.

Species were: KP Crisps Ordered For Gibert and Sullivan.

Moh's Hardness Scale (Quiet at the back, there!) was:

Tall Girls Can Flirt And Other Quaint Things Can Do.

I can remember them only mumble-mumblety years later.

everything in life is not an opportunity to be offended. Neither is it something to complain about. it’s just words. i’d like to bet he is a brilliant teacher.

Making fun out of gay people is not just words.

I don’t think it’s homophobia at all. The mnemonic includes the words “my” rectum. So the inventor and the boys chanting it are happy to be involved in the “gay” activity. Not phobic at all.