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Originally Posted by Kriminal99
Yeah because you can't accomplish a goal if you get killed or something similar happens in a different situation... it doesn't mean you give up on the goal.
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correct. live to fight another day to quote another phrase without attribution. my goal was to graduate with honors; i did.
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Originally Posted by K-man
I guess you can't see any way to fight for truth in a situation like that. If so then that is where we differ. I have a comprehensive understanding of many subjects that include how and why an organization like that is supposed to work. If I see something like that, my reaction is who the heck is this fool who is using my country's resources and my tax dollars to support his ego at school kids expense, and why hasn't he been fired yet. If he refuses to be reasonable, I'd go to the administrator. then the school board, then file a lawsuit (not when I was a kid but in general) etc. If it's wrong, there is always a way. The one way that is always there is to appeal to people at large to get a bunch of guns and deal with the corrupt government.
Perhaps a bit overkill for a teacher giving you a bad grade for being right, but only because it would probably never get past the teacher's boss.
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correct again. the devil is in the details. my anecdotal incident didn't happen in a vacuum and i had to make a judgment call on the spur of the moment in the classroom. as to whether it was worth it to bring the matter to the school's administrators, i did look into it after the fact, and found this was not an isolated incident for the teacher, but he was tenured and there was no end of grief & bother that other students already suffered and were suffering trying to oppose him through administrative means. carrying a full load, working, other yada yadas, it wasn't worth my trouble.
some side notes: i was in my 30's at the time, unlike most of the students who were kids, and the teacher was in his 50's. he was a drama teacher, extremely effeminate and clearly had some issues with having his authority taken seriously. having been through a similar bruhaha with a high school drama teacher, i had some idea how things might develop.
