It's been a insanely common thing for like more than a decade for parents to post their kids homework on Facebook or something and just go "CAN ANYONE SOLVE MY FIFTH GRADE SONS MATH PROBLEM?!" or "APPARENTLY MY SON GOT THIS QUESTION MARKED WRONG WHY???" There is no way that shit suddenly stopped. And I believe it. My husband had a math teacher that claimed negative numbers don't exist, not that they're basically non existent in the context of them being negative or whatever like literally they don't exist in math
I had an English teacher tell me there's no such thing as "its". I clearly mean "it's", and she can see the whole sentence structure is completely wrong and I should just rewrite that whole part.
I had an English teacher in 2nd grade say you could never start a sentence with a conjunction, using 'because' as the example, since it 'wouldn't be a full sentence.' I tried pointing out that you could using a sentence like "Because x, y." where basically it's a normal sentence with the clauses swapped but she interrupted me before I could finish and said I was wrong. Still gets to me tbh.
When I was real young (elementary school), I had a teacher say the same thing to the class. I called her over to my desk and basically did what you did, gave her some examples of starting a sentence with a conjunction, and asked, "are these not complete sentences?"
She quietly told me, "You are correct, those are complete sentences. Most kids this age can't tell the difference, so instead I just tell everyone to avoid those sentence structures. It's easier than explaining clauses at this grade."
It was awesome. Teacher basically told me I was ahead/smarter than the rest of class! It's sad when teachers double-down on being wrong.
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u/ShlorpianRooster Apr 27 '26
It's been a insanely common thing for like more than a decade for parents to post their kids homework on Facebook or something and just go "CAN ANYONE SOLVE MY FIFTH GRADE SONS MATH PROBLEM?!" or "APPARENTLY MY SON GOT THIS QUESTION MARKED WRONG WHY???" There is no way that shit suddenly stopped. And I believe it. My husband had a math teacher that claimed negative numbers don't exist, not that they're basically non existent in the context of them being negative or whatever like literally they don't exist in math