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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take him to McDonald's this week to explore alternate career tracks.  My old HS calculus teacher used to say that there's a French fry machine out there for all of us.  :lol:[/quote]

OMG, I think we had the same Calc teacher! Mine also used to tell us if we didn't do well, we could just go to NOVA (whose mascot, he told us, was Ricky the Roadkill).

I laughed along at the time, but now that I'm older, I think that was really elitist and inappropriate![/quote]

Wow, as a parent of a kid with a disability who will likely start at our local community college, I have to say that stories like that are what makes school so incredibly hard for my kid.  [/quote]

I thought it was very funny, and only slightly inappropriate. After all, this is a high school calculus class! Most kids taking calculus are likely to go on to somewhat competitive colleges. [/quote]

Yes, I'm the original PP and it was definitely intended as a joke for a certain audience - these were the top kids in our class. 
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It was a very insensitive joke and I would not expect a teacher to joke that way with students who have to interact with those less fortunate.  It sends a terrible message.  When the teacher jokes like that, kids feel like they have license to joke and tease about it too. The PP is right - this is the type of "joking" that makes it hard for kids who are on a different path because the message it sends is that those "calculus" kids are somehow better than the others.  And when HS immaturity comes into play... guess what.  I am one of the PP's and I am not overly sensitive about it.  My kid is on a good path, is happy and has found a comfortable place in the world. But it was a shitty thing to say.  Hey, but as long as you thought it was funny... :roll:

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Actually you are over sensitive.[/quote]

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