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Does anyone remember how they were taught how to spell arithmetic?
A red
Indian
thought
he
might
eat
tobacco
in
church. Of course it's now considered racist and is highly offensive but back in the 1980s that's how kids were taught to spell arithmetic.
Another one, that's offensive to me, is "don't assume anything because you make an
ass out of
u and
me." I had an abusive 4th grade teacher would would cuss AND hit kids for any little reason. It was his favorite saying.
To some Latino/Latina is offensive and the more appropriate term is Hispanic while to others Hispanic is offensive while Latino/Latina is correct.
There are a lot of Yiddish words that are used today that people don't realize are, well, slurs. I'm blanking on the show or what network it was one (History, History 2, Science, or something like that) in which they went over the origins of certain words. Really interesting show.
I don't recall ever hearing that about arithmetic until now. One thing I do recall, again, from being in the south growing up, was that they had a preacher come in and tell Bible stories to us in elementary school. The way they got around it was by obtaining parental consent. Still, I felt *my* rights as a human being (albeit a minor) were being trampled upon. I hated going to those as most of the kids knew the stories and I did not because we didn't go to church. And it always seemed the preacher could tell I didn't know anything because he seemed to call on me to answer questions more often than the other kids.
Oh, and I don't like the little assume thing either. I didn't have something happen to me like it did to you around the word, but people make assumptions all the time without realizing it. If we weren't able to make small assumptions and presumptions, communication in everyday life would be much more difficult. I find it extremely insulting when someone simply calls you an "a$$" instead of taking time to politely and rationally explain why they disagree with you. I actually think that happened to me here on makeup talk recently.
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But I did have a teacher who threw chairs at us. He had major issues! My worst teacher was the one who first tried to teach me about computers. She was the cheerleading coach too. She put me and my computer partner on a lemon then constantly made fun of us for being jinxed. One day, when they broke down, she made me and my partner stand back to back in the middle of the room the whole class hour. For someone like me, that was mortifying. I've never forgiven her. It took me forever to get over my prejudice against redheads (as she was one). It taught me to hate anyone involved in sports or cheerleading. And I never learned as much about computers as I should have because that was my first introduction to them.