• BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I had an elementary school teacher who insisted that gravity came from the earth’s rotation, and that if the earth stopped spinning there would be nothing holding us down.

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      3 months ago

      I had a math teacher at my stem highschool claim that the touch screens on the ipads worked by heat and that if you touch them too much the screen will get too warm and stop responding

      She also told students their computer was slow because they had too many desktop shortcuts, or hadn’t emptied their “trash” files.

      There was also an argument we had over whether something was actually a 3d vector or multiple 2d vectors but I don’t wanna dredge my memories for the exact details, it was dumb.

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        I had a math teacher at my stem highschool claim that the touch screens on the ipads worked by heat and that if you touch them too much the screen will get too warm and stop responding

        I think the only way this could be any stupider is if she said it has cameras under the screen looking for where your fingers go.

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          3 months ago

          Lol, yeah somehow that would sink even lower. It fucking drove me up the wall when I was a kid

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      3 months ago

      I had an 8th grade social studies teacher/football coach tell us black people had an extra bone in their leg and that’s why they were so good at sports. He was pretty well liked teacher tbh, we watched Oliver Stones “JFK” in his class. During lectures he’d come around and sit on the front of his desk to seem more relatable. He ended up on the school board eventually.

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        3 months ago

        She clearly had no idea which way the vectors point on the outside of a spinning sphere

        I wonder if she ever played on a roundabout, being spun fast enough that holding on is barely enough