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In my spare time (should have been working) I stopped to read the above article. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry about this detention slip:

"Alex consistently defied me. During class he contradicted me numerous times when I insisted that the length of one kilometer was greater than that of one mile. Every other student in class accepted my lesson without argument, but your son refused to believe what I told him, offering such rebuttals as, 'You're lying to the class,' and commanding other students to challenge my curriculum."Although he was correct, Alex's actions show a blatant disregard for authority, and a complete lack of respect for his school. In the future, Alex would be better off simply accepting my teaching without resistance."Please see to it that your son understands this."

Sounds like some kids on this forum!!!!! The rest of the detentions were hilarious though.

I have posted on here before, that my DS (6 years old at that time) got a "time out" in 1st grade because he interrupted a math class to dispute the teacher's statement that a triangle could have all 3 angles to be 90 degrees simultaneously. He said that he politely stated that 90+90+90 would be greater than 180 degrees and hence she was wrong. He is also the type of person who does not back down and keeps repeating his point of view if he knows that he is right. I can imagine how it looked for the teacher. But, in her place, I would have apologized to the kids and corrected myself and moved on. Not, given a 6 year old a timeout and a bad remark on his weekly "comportment report" for the incident. As an adult, it is perfectly normal to forget things that we learned in elementary school if we never put them to use or revisited them in our later life. That was the lesson that I taught DS from that incident. BTW/ that was the only ever timeout that he got (the teacher lost her job, due to other parents complaining about other issues with their kids).

Umm.. link is click bait to an OLD joke that's been floating around the internet years. (At least 2005) It's still funny and relevant but it's debatable that it was ever more than social commentary.

Well that's strange! I guess they recycle old material. Sorry!

Click-bait or not: as a former teacher of gifted children--I'll just say that one of the job requirements should be having a sense of humor and an ego that's not entrenched in always being right. I thought it was great fun to work with kids, many of whom were much brighter than I, because of their agile minds. And yes, they always catch mistakes. So what?

One of the best things about gifted kids, IME, is that most of them were quite compassionate/empathetic and really just wanted a teacher to "get it" about them. That drive for accuracy is a gifted trait, and not a deficit, IMO.

Those detention stories were funny. You'd think the teachers might stop and think "is this the hill I want to die on?" I'd be embarrassed to submit those remarks to a superior.

DD's teacher this year is so delighted if anyone catches her in a mistake that she gives out house points for it One of the signs of a good teacher IMO

DD has a teacher this year who personifies this and even wrote me a funny email about DD doing this. She clearly thought it was great. I'm so happy with her!