My AP chemistry teacher (in suburban Atlanta) had a doctorate… in divinity or some shit like that, not chemistry. Pretty sure she still got the extra salary they gave to teachers with Ph.D’s, though.
She wasn’t actually bad at the subject matter, though, but her “classroom manner” wasn’t the best. My most vivid memory of her was her yelling “whaddya, stupid?!” in a thick Boston (or NYC?) accent at a student who answered a question particularly egregiously wrong.
I recall a junior high school science teacher in suburban Houston telling us that if you sneeze three times and nobody blesses you, the devil takes your soul. I guess it could have been tongue-in-cheek; it’s been a long time. But, having never heard it before, it always struck me as a strange thing for a science teacher to say.
With cuts to funding and training, few teachers in the south actually studied the subjects they teach. Or education for that matter.
My source is that I pulled it out of my ass based on shit I read online, though.
My AP chemistry teacher (in suburban Atlanta) had a doctorate… in divinity or some shit like that, not chemistry. Pretty sure she still got the extra salary they gave to teachers with Ph.D’s, though.
She wasn’t actually bad at the subject matter, though, but her “classroom manner” wasn’t the best. My most vivid memory of her was her yelling “whaddya, stupid?!” in a thick Boston (or NYC?) accent at a student who answered a question particularly egregiously wrong.
I recall a junior high school science teacher in suburban Houston telling us that if you sneeze three times and nobody blesses you, the devil takes your soul. I guess it could have been tongue-in-cheek; it’s been a long time. But, having never heard it before, it always struck me as a strange thing for a science teacher to say.
Yes, it sounds correct to me.
I’ll say “Bless you” twice. After that, you can fucking go to hell.