If you haven’t seen the short clip of a Texas high-school student asking/telling his teacher to teach instead of handing out “packets”: watch.
Here, verbatim, is text from that teacher’s school webpage:
A man's reach should always exceed his grasp...Robt. BrowningBasic writing skills should never exceed a teacher’s grasp. How did this teacher ever make it into the classroom? Would you be happy knowing that she was teaching your child?
Welcome to World History and Asian American Studies!
As we go thru the year; you will discover alot of new things you never knew about not only about the world but the mysterious continent of Asia. As you can see - I got to visit Great Wall of China during the summer of 2011 as well as many other sights in China and Japan!
As I said ...a man's reach (or a woman's ;), should always exceed their grasp! I meant it...and I want you to also!
[The lines from Robert Browning’s “Andrea del Sarto”: “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?” I used non-breaking spaces to reproduce the two spaces after the exclamation point, the periods, and the first China.]
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The kid had a right to his rant, but he was only minimally more articulate than the teacher.
Texas requires one to take a Texas History course before approving a certificate, but reading and writing....not so much.
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