Message from @Gilgamesh
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I'm a reporter in training myself
so I intimidate students until they get to know me
How so
very cool
well I'm loud, many kids aren't used to that
Ah yeah the military background
I use certain behaviors to drive home points
and I don't back down
Sounds cool to me
and I teach them to be assertive
Do you call people out?
always
Interesting
For what?
usually in a mocking manner
well if they come up with completely ideological answers I ask them to expand on that
Ah goos
good *
then get them to place it in a rael world setting
and when it is found to be terrible we joke about it an d move on
It's always good to make people follow through on ideas and not just let them regurgitate talking points
nothing against the student, but against the idea
I never attack the individual, just the ideas
Too many kids and adults just regurgitate to fit in
they like me, the students
Is that what you think or do they tell you
I wanted to be a teacher before I landed in journalism
I force them to look at how things are
I didn't want to be a teacher, I wanted to get into public relations
in politics
Odd
but landed a teaching job
I heard journalists tend to become PR
well I am a Communication major with a History minor
I see
I'm a philosophy major but I ended up loving journalism
As a teacher how does the district make you handle the old cusual racism from materials pre-1930s?
but its hard for a 40 yr old vet to get started in such things
we don't use material from the 1930's lol
the books I use are less than 2 years old
although I do pull out some old books to show the students how things were interpretedearlier