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Old 05-24-2010, 06:11 PM
 
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"We are going to have a long conversation with him about what's appropriate," Hammonds tells The News. "It was extremely poor judgment on his part, and a poor choice of words."

Geometry teacher uses assassinating Obama to teach angles to students -
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Old 05-24-2010, 06:15 PM
 
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LOL

I'm curious, though. Did he use "shoot the President" in his choice of words, or did he use "shoot President Obama."

Perhaps he was insinuating JFK and the Texas Book Respository, which clearly demonstrates angles.

The article wasn't clear.
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Old 05-24-2010, 06:16 PM
 
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A very poor choice but I'll bet they learned. Best teacher I ever had used very unconventional methods to teach but you always learned.
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Old 05-24-2010, 06:27 PM
 
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LOL

I'm curious, though. Did he use "shoot the President" in his choice of words, or did he use "shoot President Obama."

Perhaps he was insinuating JFK and the Texas Book Respository, which clearly demonstrates angles.

The article wasn't clear.
In any event, it was inappropriate.

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A very poor choice but I'll bet they learned. Best teacher I ever had used very unconventional methods to teach but you always learned.
My daughter had a math teacher who kept statistics from the Broncos games, and gave problems like: John Elway threw X passes for Y yards. What was the average length of a pass. That's unconventional, relevant and positive. Using the shooting of the president to teach math is unconventional, but it's nothing else.
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Old 05-24-2010, 06:32 PM
 
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"We are going to have a long conversation with him about what's appropriate," Hammonds tells The News. "It was extremely poor judgment on his part, and a poor choice of words."

Geometry teacher uses assassinating Obama to teach angles to students -

Regardless if Obama was mentioned or not, it was a very, very, very poor example to use. The teacher should be reprimanded.
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Old 05-25-2010, 02:42 AM
 
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Using the assassination of the President to make a point about geometry was more than inappropriate.

What's next, using a lynching to make a point about tensile strength?

That teacher should go.
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Old 05-25-2010, 03:43 AM
 
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Inappropriate.
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