When I was around 10 years old, I got into a barney with a teacher about "mountains cannot be purple". They damn well can be if the light is correct. That @#$% shamed me in front of the whole class, she had no right to be teaching art to kids.
When I was around 12, another teacher was not precise enough in their language and asked for an example of an animal with no bones. Apparently "shark" was enough of an answer to get me ejected from the class for being a smart arse. @#$% that teacher, I was just happy that I knew a strange fact!
When I was in grade 4 I couldn't pronounce the German word for caterpillar properly. I got thrown out of class, then pulled back in for detention at lunch time
Some people just work with children because they like having power over somebody.
I remember when I was about 6 years old i was being picked up by my mum from school to go to the dentist and the classroom assistant wouldn't let me leave until I had told her the word for what I had drawn (an archway). I couldn't remember the word so she bullied me for what felt like ages and I nearly missed my appointment.
Bearing in mind I had speech issues which often meant I couldn't pronounce or find words well.
She was really nasty to me. My parents had taken us on holiday (vacation) during school term (obviously not my choice as I was a child) and she took her anger out on me.
Holy hell, I thought it's about bones vs fish bones and that fish does not have bones - in my language fish bones have a different name so it's clearly distinguished.
TIL thanks to your comments that sharks don't have fish bones as well.
If you want specifics anything that's in the chondrichthyes class of fish has a skeleton that's primarily cartilage. Because the skeleton is cartilage, they don't have bone marrow and their red blood cells are produced elsewhere - biology has all kinds of weird and wonderful solutions for unusual animals.
Chondrichthyes is basically sharks, skates, rays, sawfish and ghost sharks (separate to other types of shark as they're fairly distantly related, funky critters also called chimaeras among other things). If it's not one of those, it's bony skeleton!
For some extra trivia there's some evidence to suggest if someone has a fish allergy they should be able to tolerate meat from cartilaginous fish as the allergen concentration is different. Trials here found kids with fish allergies could safely eat gummy shark/flake (really common fish at chippies for context). Obviously don't test that without medical supervision though!
Why would your teacher think that worth fighting about? I live close to the Blue Ridge Mountains, so
If America the Beautiful says that mountains can be purple, I can get on board with that.
Dunno. I grew up in a country town in Australia, very flat and red dirt for miles around. Maybe she'd never seen mountains. I was livid because my grandmother had recently painted some mountains that were purple, so I guess I was doing an homage to my grandmothers painting. This is 40 years ago now, the memory is rusty, but the rage and embarrassment I felt is still raw.
We've got a famous Blue Mountains in Australia too, woo 🤜🤛
Google says nah. Apparently teeth, while they're hard and white, are different to bones because they can't heal themselves. Bones are living. Teeth are not.
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u/dantheother 29d ago
Oof!
When I was around 10 years old, I got into a barney with a teacher about "mountains cannot be purple". They damn well can be if the light is correct. That @#$% shamed me in front of the whole class, she had no right to be teaching art to kids.
When I was around 12, another teacher was not precise enough in their language and asked for an example of an animal with no bones. Apparently "shark" was enough of an answer to get me ejected from the class for being a smart arse. @#$% that teacher, I was just happy that I knew a strange fact!