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[quote=Anonymous]If it happened today in a MCPS then you are correct.   But you ARE overly sensitive because you don't know where or when this happened or who was in the room.

"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... "

For example, where I grew up 40ish years ago, those that were destined to go to community college and/or work at McDonalds constantly made fun of the Calculus kids from the moment they met them in kindergarten until they quit HS or finished their makeup English classes and graduated.  The Calculus kids had been thinking what the teacher said for YEARS.  They would NEVER have made fun of anyone because they had faced it for YEARS and would have gotten pummeled if they tried.

Luckily, things in MC today are better than they were when/where I grew up.  But I can tell you that where I grew up, the teachers did tell such stories to encourage the Calculus kids but they were very careful about who was in the room because if the wrong kids heard such things, being a teacher was no protection at all.

"No s/he's not. You're an a-hole if you think it's ok for a teacher to encourage "the top kids" to laugh at/make fun of people who go to community college or work at McDonalds."[/quote]

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