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They should be ashamed of themselves! It is in Africa.

 

Get that teacher back in a class room before she gets up and teach or get that principel a new job

 

What? Japan is *not* in Europe?

 

thinking that japan is in europ can get you in jail like the boys sitteng in japan jail

 

I thought Japan was in Williamsburg

 

No. Japan is near Brooklyn, to the west of Boro Park/Flatbush. After all, the Mirrer Yeshiva was saved by the Japaneese, right? Just cross the Verezzano Bridge and go straight.

 

anon writes;
They should be ashamed of themselves! It is in Africa.

October 24, 2008 9:53 AM


excuse me check the world map it is not in africa and not in europe

 

sorry i think you should go back to 2nd grade not the principel (principal)

 

anon:
excuse me check the world map it is not in africa and not in europe

October 24, 2008 11:26 AM

...duh!!!! its a joke stupid...

 

A teacher who is 18 years old?

Does anyone not see a problem with this?

Teachers should have, at the minimum a bachelors degree in Education. And barring some unusual events, you are typically around 22 when you get that degree. (Let's not even talk about a masters and a New York State teaching license.)

This is a case of a child teaching other children.

Some questions:

How can the school administration have so little concern for the pupils so as to entrust their education to an unqualified individual?

Are the parents aware of the situation? If they become aware, will they care at all?

How dumb do you have to be to actually think that Japan is in Europe? Doesn't this fool even have a copy of the World Almanac? Or does that violate some unknown chumra?

Do you want your daughters to get a quality secular education or not?

 

what's japan

 

it's time for parents to demand a good secular education at our schools. we want to raise talmidei chachomim and nashim tzidkanios who can write and talk properly.
unfortunately, one can just look at the way other people comment here to realize how the basic secular education in our schools is a FAILURE.

 

HER STUDENTS PROBABLY HAD A GOOD LAUGH.
EVEN IF THIS WAS A 3RD GRADE CLASS, THEY ALL KNOW BETTER.
I REMEMBER IN THE 9TH GRADE MY TEACHER WAS A GOY WITH A COLLEGE EDUCATION. WE WOULD ALWAYS LAUGH HOW SHE MISPRONOUNCED WORDS.
FOR YEARS WE GIRLS WOULD MISPRONOUNCE MANY OF THE WORDS SHE TAUGHT US.

 

Isn't Japan a company that makes junk key chains, like china?

 

is not Japan in France?

 

sigh. When my daughter was in first grade (she is now in fourth), her assistant hebrew teacher would write hebrew words with major major spelling mistakes.
for example - abba and ema with a HEY at the end.

This is not some hole in the wall school either. This is a VERY well known school in Brooklyn (do the initials PPY mean anything to anyone)???

I was totally shocked...it's not like we weren't paying huge tuition fees!

p.s. am writing from Israel, so no worries about shabbos blogging.

 

Japan is part of Eurasia so if I had made that mistake I would tell the class that was what I meant to say. Europe is more of a political boundary that is working it's way east. One day Japan may be part of Europe so the mistake can be used for a discussion of "what is Europe?". Education is about learning, even from mistakes.

 

When my sister was in High School I helped her with a term paper/project on teeth. She presented in class and lost points for pronouncing the dentin layer of teeth correctly as dentin and not, as the teacher expected, dentine (like the gum).
My DDS degree was no match towards the teachers stupidity!

 

When I was a senior in high school another student thought that the United States attacked Japanese ships at Pearl Harbor. (by the time I picked my jaw up from the floor it was too late to ask her what she thought happened at Hiroshima). Then she graduated & got a teaching position in a prominent school.

When I traveled from my large Midwestern city to attend a seminary in Israel, we used to send letters with people who were traveling to the US, to be mailed from their destination (so the mail would get there faster). I once asked a student from NYC if I could borrow a stamp. She said, "I'm sorry, but I don't have any stamps for your city." Apparently she was not familiar with the concept of the US postal service.

 

Hello! Does anyone not notice that it was the teacher who caught her mistake and asked another what to do?

So she accidentally named the wrong continent. She is embarrassed, and not sure how to explain her mistake.

So she forget for a momont, and sayd Yurope insted of Austraylia.
Wat is the bigg deel?

 

think thats bad? my first grader had play make up the kind they give out a birthday parties. she took it to school and it was taken away from her a note was sent home that make up is not allowed in school. this is who is running the schools.

 

To be a true american, you have to think that Japan is somewhere in Europe and that there is no difference beween Sweden and Switzerland or between Autria and Autralia...

So it has nothing to do with heimishe girls, that's just US-average...

Well at least this is what we europeans think about americans.

 

After teaching for 25 years in only frum schools, all I can say is, the schools get what they pay for!! They refuse to pay for teachers like me, so they get 18 yr olds who can barely spell Japan! I fault the parents, too, since they support this..I know they are aware of the problems, but are NOT interested in quality, just babysitting!! So, this is just another pathetic example of the'quality' education we have...

 

It is good for teachers to admit their mistakes, but, it is also good for teachers to plan their lessons well before coming into class and to tell their class if they don't know something that they will it up. There is nothing wrong for a teacher to say "I don't know, but, I will find out" Children will respect them for it.

 

SOUNDS TO ME LIKE THE COUNTRY YOSSI SHOW

REMEMBER THE QUESTION,
NAME THE FIVE BORO'S?

THE ANSWER WAS
1)BORO PARK
2)FLATBUSH
3)WILLIAMSBURG, ETC.

NEBECH

 

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT JAPAN WAS NEXT TO BUDEPEST

 

Don't worry most frum folks have such a lack of education that no one will know the difference. You know how many people think that New York is the capital of NY State or that Alaska is not connected to the continent.

Go ask any kid or adult some basic US geography questions and I can almost guarantee they wont know much- forget about other areas of the world.

To make that mistake of Japan being in Europe is pretty insane- its understandable if you didn't know Turkey straddled both Europe and Asia.

 

The heimieshe Japan is in Europe, the litvishe Japan is in Asia