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Stupid teacher tricks

by Prometheus 6
October 30, 2003 - 1:05pm.
on Race and Identity

So fourth-grade NYC teacher Gail Kaplan sees a picture of a gorilla on a kids folder and says "You took a picture of your family and put it on the front of your folder."

Told the girl not to tell her parents about the "joke," so she knew it was wrong.

And when called in to a "conference," apologizes thusly:

"I always joke that way with my husband and family"

Always calls her family gorillas?

"If I had known it was [the girl], I wouldn't have said it."

If she has known WHAT was the girl? She knew WHO she was talking to.

Fire the bitch.

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Submitted by SoulPhoto.Net (not verified) on October 30, 2003 - 5:44pm.

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Well, actually I can. I also can not claim to be the first to tell this story. http://Prometheus6.org is where I first read it.Here is an excerpt from...

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Submitted by Natalie Davis (not verified) on October 30, 2003 - 5:56pm.

Yup. Fire the bitch.

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Submitted by ronn (not verified) on October 30, 2003 - 9:23pm.

Being fired would be the least of her worries if that were my child.

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Submitted by Natalie Davis (not verified) on October 30, 2003 - 9:57pm.

Heard that. Lucky for her, it is not my child and I am a committed pacifist. But the bitch would be fired.

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Submitted by phelps (not verified) on October 31, 2003 - 7:04pm.

My father always said that a picture of a monkey was a picture of me. There is a good chance that she didn't mean anything racial by it when she said it, and then realized after the fact that it could be construed that way. That would explain why she decided to say not to tell anyone after the fact. (I'm not saying that she didn't mean it that way, but it certainly could have been an innocent comment.)My father's other favorite little-kid game is to call horses cows and cows horses, and then argue about it (usually when passing a herd.)

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