Teach your children well
A high school teacher at a prefectural school in Hokkaido is in hot water for giving first-year students reference materials containing racy expressions for their summer vacation homework assignments.
The materials given to students included scenes illustrating how men and women hook up together. The materials included inappropriate (but quite useful) expressions, such as “favorite sexual positions.”
The school has a apologized, saying that the English teacher who handed out the materials was unaware of the English expressions contained in them. . . Which means either he never read the materials or that he does not understand English very well.
I suspect the latter, because the teacher apparently does not understand the meaning of the word “vacation.”
Yes, the materials were inappropriate only for the school(and the teacher), but quite useful for most of the students.
I wonder who found out the materials were inappropriate. If some students did, might it be another bigger problem emerging. That means the teacher didn’t understand English very well and he couldn’t finish reading the materials.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:58 pmSo what? They’re high school kids, you can’t keep them sheltered forever…
July 28th, 2007 at 8:10 amI think TofuUnion has hit the nail on the head here. The issue SHOULD be that either the teacher isn’t doing his job (just handing out random unchecked material) or is incapable (doesn’t understand the material). I honestly think it’s more likely to be the latter.
July 28th, 2007 at 9:13 amCan you imagine a math teacher who couldn’t handle long division? Or a deaf music teacher…
as me old math tutor used to bray - “remora! invert and multiply Lad!!!” - education is zip..I gratefully spent almost 2 heavenly years outside of the SiStem (courtesy of my visionary Dad - the REMORA)..
Call it a chequered/fractured education..whatever.?
My lad’s Osa & Stom are getting a far better/well grounded basic education in Japan.
More than they could possibly hope for in the UK..
rem.
July 28th, 2007 at 11:23 am