Today my student came into my office and asked me why the Vikings lost the football game last night. I then informed him that the Vikings lost because they scored less points than the Saints. Thankfully, that seemed to satisfy him because I certainly did not want to get into a debate with him about fumbles, passing and running yards or interception percentages.
Additionally, I have figured out what is wrong with our current education system. It's the people writing the textbooks that don't know what they are talking about. I was working with some students last week on a following directions activity from a book I have at school. They needed to listen to my instruction and through the process of elimination figure out which title was the title for the book of the week.
Now, I'm fairly certain I have referred to my weakness of flying by the seat of my pants when it comes to therapy and this particular activity was no different. I had previously just taken a glance at it and thought it was a great activity and trusted the publishers enough to not look too closely. So, one of the statements was, "The book of the week is NOT the one with the name of a country in the title." Now I am confident I have a pretty good knowledge of world geography and nowhere in my many years of education did I learn that Africa was a country. Please don't think I am bragging when I tell you that I am absolutely positive it is the name of continent!
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