FoxTrot by Bill Amend for August 24, 2014

Damn Fascist Teachers

Great song. I just found out it was written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood.

Paige is learning a valuable lesson: Do as “da man”say, don’t be a rabble-rouser or independent thinker.

Is that Dilbert sitting in front of Paige? Sure looks like that might be him when he was in High School.

“Lots of homework” – what teachers give when they are too lazy to teach during class.

I still have that LP. There are some…interesting songs on it.

@Al S.does anyone know where the color footage inGimmie Dat Ding comes from?

I think some people are missing the point here. You seem to think the teacher is being a tyrant who doesn’t want the students to have independent thoughts on the subject. I see him as a man desperately trying to get distracted teenagers to pay attention and get genuinely interested in the subject. And I think his definition of biology is as correct as the textbook definition, better even. Also, the idea that you need to learn, then unlearn, to find the truth is a valid one, but seems more appropriate to history, sociology, or economics than basic biology.

Looks like some Ting’s wrong.

I think Mr. “Ting tang walla walla bing bang” has a long year ahead…

They don’t want good education. They say they do, but they don’t.What they actually want is schools that teach people to accept authority without thinking.

I don’t think Finland does standardized testing either (for those who wonder how Finland can then have any rank internationally, the answer is that the international assessments of school performance are not part of the standarized test system we so love in the US).

I mention this because of one of the Laws of Bureaucracy: time you spend measuring progress is time you spend not making any. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time measuring the zero progress you are making. American schools are getting pretty close to stability.

Nice JOB Paige, you saw through a teacher’s lie! Now no one will pay attention to him or believe him!

Nicely summarizes pretty much every statement made by a conservative. I think it has to do with their almost complete disconnect from reality.

My 9th grade bio teacher was the only man on earth who could make sexual reproduction sound boring to a bunch of teenagers..It embarrasses me to admit that it took me until my 40s before I realized that was probably deliberate.

What’s greek for “Nice Try?”

The teacher is a retard

is this not fraud? lying about what you should know if you are going to work as a biologist, that would be pretty embarrassed if your co-worker asked you what biology meant and you said this

Dang, her biology teacher is cool!

Doesn’t Bios mean a computer component?

Not unless you admit your mistake with what the word, “biology” actually mean. Now, let us go back to page one and review the term again, shall we, “teacher”?