Thread: When Do Teachers Go Too Far?

Originally Posted by princesslady

Yes they went to far. A plain and simple answer.
Why would they want kids to go through that just to make a damn point. STUPID.
my sex ed teacher showed us a porno and got fired for it. My opinion is he didn't go to far becuase half the kids have either done it or seen it so it isn't like we are dumb. I was laughing the whole way through. Not becuz of immaturity but becuase of the video. The females were hiarious. No orgasm is so good you scream at the top of your lungs.

That just means your teacher had no common sense.

I think that sometimes it takes extreme measures for people to really learn things. As long as they respect their boundaries, teachers shouldn't be criticized for trying to educate our children. Creating "The Third Wave" is one thing, making kids watch porn is just stupid...

I can see the reasoning behind the first example, though it would have to be done suuuuper carefully, because a lot of factors were at play allowing Hitler to gain power. Just saying "we're gonna change the world," and that they are special in no way does the actual events justice (I'm assuming that there was actually more to the experiment).

The 2nd example is just stupid though, and gets nothing across. Who doesn't get taunted and made fun of in middle school? You don't need an experiment pretending kids are jewish just to get a point across. The teacher could just be like "hey, ya know how middle school sucks, and you all get made fun of daily? Now imagine that, but extremely worse."

I believe that kids should be taught at a young age the hardships of those around them from other backgrounds not the "differences". It's nice to understand history so we don't have a horrid repeat of some of these awful events. Yet I really don't understand why teachers have to go to such lengths to teach kids these differences, these lessons should already have been taught and hopefully instilled into the young when their parents were their daily teachers, before these kids ever stepped foot into a school...

I like to believe that my parents raised me right, I don't have any issues ethnically or sexual orientation related, I like equality it allows me to have more friends with more interests. Either way I don't really disagree with the lessons these teachers have taught, it just is a shame that due to the current world we live in, with parents still teaching their offspring the same mistakes they have made, that such lessons are viewed as horrible and inappropriate.

Originally Posted by Chubz

The 2nd example is just stupid though, and gets nothing across. Who doesn't get taunted and made fun of in middle school? You don't need an experiment pretending kids are jewish just to get a point across. The teacher could just be like "hey, ya know how middle school sucks, and you all get made fun of daily? Now imagine that, but extremely worse."

That's not the point of the experiment chubz. It's about how easy it is to be indoctrinated and/or pushed to do things you originally thought you'd never do. Making people think a certain race/ethnical group/etc. is worth less than their own, etc.

well, Soshi thought these teachers were f***ing awesome, why? becuz he believes that expirience is the best teacher. so what better way to teach children then to let them feel it?

as for me, i know that teaching kids this way is something kids do need... as a part of human history, children must understand this and WHY it was so bad, and more imporantly, WHY people were allowed to be treated this way. why i don't agree with it... well, that's mean ^_^, not something bad, just mean...