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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris
What words did he blank out and which did he share? Or did he change the words entirely and they figure it out later? How can anyone here* judge how "offensive" or "shocking" this was without explicitly knowing that?
*Except me, 'cos I think if it wasn't insulting anyone directly at the time the education board or whatever should mind their own f***ing business however he worded it.
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This.
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Originally Posted by Ruffy
2. Would it have been poor teaching to offer this mnemonic phrase as one, historic possibility that he had been taught (which is merely stating a fact) but then follow up with a discussion on why it was probably inappropriate to use it nowadays and lead on to a class exercise to define something better?
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Just cos he's got 30yrs experience with teaching doesn't mean he wasn't an idiot.
The thing that bugs me about what this teacher did is the fact that he left blanks so the students could figure them out for themselves. Essentially wasting their time trying to solve racist mnemonics. We're unaware of the one's he left blank but let's say it was
B. Boys R Our Y G, But Virgins Go Without.
Why bother 'stimulating' their minds in solving a mnemonic like this? He asked for it, and in my opinion not very smart teaching methods by him. I had many great teachers, they were usually the old timers, but they never fed us cruddy mnemonics that could probably be just as memorable without having rape and a negative reference to a skin colour in it.