Worst insult you ever received from a teacher

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"When you were born, your parents threw away the wrong bit!"

So cold.

― Matt DC, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

By worst, I mean 'best', obviously.

― Matt DC, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Teachers at my school were often extremely racist (not to me but I'm white) and violent (to me). I wouldn't mind meeting some of them down a dark alley sometime. The fucking cunts.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Oh right sorry, those wouldn't be best.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

"in all my 15 years of teaching, i have never had a student as disrespectful as you"

― modestmickey, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

But that's a compliment.

― g-kit, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

"What are you doing up there, digging for gold?"

― Hurting 2, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

I had a hello kitty calculator that I thought was kitschy and I made some wisecrack and my geometry teacher said "what, did you get that calculator at Caldor?"

― dan selzer, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ah you're an only child, that explains a lot!

― nathalie, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

One American history teacher complained to my mother (not to me, for some reason) that I asked too many questions she didn't know the answers to.

What is Caldor?

― Maria, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I have a Hello Kitty calculator. :(

I can't remember any insults from teachers as I was a goody-two-shoes. But insults given:

-"Pendajo!" Which basically means dumbass. It slipped out in anger. The kid was surprised but the class got a huge laugh out of it.

-Of course I often stupidly set myself up for the following: Me - "Stop being a smartass" Kid - "Better than being a dumbass"

Mild, I know, but I was very careful not to put kids down no matter how hard they pushed me.

One of the best exchanges was in my first months of teaching when I told them all to "sit your asses down". And one little jerk-off whom I couldn't stand jumped and said "I'm going to the office and tell Principal Gr33r. You're gonna get fired for cussing at us!" Me: "Good, you're doing me a favor!" Prinicpal's office basically told him to shut his ass up and get back to class.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

"You're nothing, onimo, nothing!"

― onimo, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

We did have some witty teachers that I liked but for some reason I can't think of anything they said, I just get filled with red mist if I even think about school.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

me too. bomb them all!!

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Of course I often stupidly set myself up for the following: Me - "Stop being a smartass" Kid - "Better than being a dumbass"

Pwned.

― Matt DC, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Not to me, but to the fat kid in class: "We're not all great big rolling balls of lard!!"

That kid got the bpiss taken out of him by the other kids but it sure stopped when that arsehole started on at him.

― the next grozart, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

On my friend's report card a teacher described him as a "Shining Wit".

― the next grozart, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

In 6th grade gym class, before puberty made me skinny, teacher looking directly at me: "Some of you need to lay off the Twinkies."

I don't even like Twinkies. :(

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

I also made my third grade teacher cry. I was a fucking horrible obnoxious child.

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

remy to thread! but i'll just mention that an English teacher we once had in common wrote disparaging comments in her grade book such as, "a nitwit, like her mother"

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

When I was a junior in high school, one of my friends was reading an answer in chemistry class and his voice cracked. The teacher was writing something on the board - she wheeled around without missing a beat and said, "Welcome to 8th grade!"

― Nathan, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

god the parents were *the* fucking worse. One conversation with them and it was perfectly clear why their kid was such a nightmare.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

a dipshit teacher at my high school called my friend 'bamber gascoine' when he corrected her one time too many in science class - the dude had real bad skin and wiry red hair, looked like bamber gascoine. the entire class laughed at him. it was a really horrible moment. a couple of years later she had a nervous breakdown after me and some friends published a zine with a joke taken from a birthday card, with her name substituted:
Q. What does ~~an elephant~~Miss Whatever use as a contraceptive?
A. ~~Its~~her personality.

i was caught daydreaming, as i did a lot, by my middle school teacher, but she was awesome and also liked me. she stopped the class and read aloud, from memory, this poem called 'nobody knows i'm a marrog from mars', all about some kid who's always off in a world of his own.

― stevie, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Teachers at my school were often extremely racist (not to me but I'm white) and violent (to me). I wouldn't mind meeting some of them down a dark alley sometime. The fucking cunts.

I attended the same rural school, same building in fact, from kindergarten to my junior year of high school. After twelve years eating the in the same cafetorium, I decided that I'd move in with my dad and go to the fancy big city school.

Before I left, my principal had me come into his office for a little advice. He warned me that there were "blacks" and then there were "niggers", and that I should keep an eye out for myself down in the big city.

Ever had to make a tough decision about something and then later find an astounding confirmation that you made the right choice? I have never felt a more intense version of that feeling since that day.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

"i'm going to burn this picture!"

after i grabbed my crotch in a class photo, 8th grade.

― jergïns, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

My 2nd grade music teacher told me I was "the worst recorder player in the school's history!"

Crushing. I never started that freak folk band because of the emotional scars.

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I had a piano teacher when I was younger who said "you are thick, THICK AS THE WOOD".

I just stood up and walked home. She was very apologetic the next week.

― Ronan, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

should have said the wood wasn't that thick, as the noises created by her furious knocking on it clearly showed

― Ronan, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ronan, I had a mustachioed female piano teacher who would lean over to one side and fart, while playing. This happened almost every week. I should have had the courage to get up and leave, but she came to my house.

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

My AP English teacher threw a pen at me for talking in class. Not really an insult I guess...

xpost oh god gross

― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

My 6th grade teacher called me a "militant" after I passed around a petition objecting to a filmstrip's bias and got all the kids to sign it.

― John Justen, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

what was the filmstrip and bias

― JW, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

one time my english teacher called a kid in my class a "tocahueves" after learning the word (but not its meaning) from a spanish teacher

― bernard snowy, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

she also wrote something in my progress report comparing me to a gregorian monk tending a vineyard. I'm not really sure how I was supposed to take that one.

― bernard snowy, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

"nappy-headed ho" ;_;

― ghost rider, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

"Nobody likes you"

― C0L1N B..., Friday, 13 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

It was about deer hunting and very negative towards hunters, and I had just read about population control etc. etc.

― John Justen, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, seems like I got in trouble once for petitioning something. Can't remember what it was though. Must have been so very important.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, the best one out of context might have been "Stop walking like a godamn hippie, you're a Nazi!" now that I think of it.

I was in "The Sound Of Music" at the time.

― John Justen, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

My teacher told me (and my parents) that I shouldn't go to university as I wasn't going to be emotionally capable of dealing with people. Cockfarmer. (I went anyway. I fared a lot better than I did in his cockfarmy school where the bullying culture had made me shite at dealing with people in the first place).

― ailsa, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Waltzing into class 5 minutes late, reeking of cigarette smoke: "Are you even going to graduate this year?" OUCH! (Also kinda silly, since I was acing that class, but still, good put-down.)

― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

my third grade teacher told me that if I didn't learn how to glue properly I'd never be a successful adult. Or something. MAYBE SHE WAS RIGHT!!!

― gunther heartymeal, Saturday, 14 April 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

I was essentially told in grade 4 I'd be lucky if I completed high school.

I've nearly completed university, so bite down on that bitch!

― Kate, non masonic, Saturday, 14 April 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

my history teacher wrote 'peurile dribble' on my essay in giant red letters, he was right, then he died young, i am sorry he wasted part of his short life reading my essay, he could have done something much funner with his time.

― estela, Saturday, 14 April 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

My history teacher asked me if I had problems at home because I couldn't finish in-class essays.

She had a student/parent/teacher conference concerning another student (who simply didn't give a shit about school) and told his parents that "he must be doing drugs."

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 14 April 2007 05:58 (eighteen years ago)

i used to pretend i had problems at home but the thing was, i did.

― estela, Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

"you are thick, THICK AS THE WOOD".

Ew! The pervert!

― nathalie, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:20 (eighteen years ago)

― Ronan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

wood: erection. nevermind.

― nathalie, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

"look at his arms! look at them! look how long they are! he's like a monkey. he's totally out of proportion. oo-oo-oo!"

this from a (slightly drunken) maths teacher on a geography field trip (don't ask). i was 11. thought it was a little out of order, but hey. i've had worse. hellfire, just this morning i was chased out of a flat by an angry man with a hammer. (don't ask.)

My AP English teacher threw a pen at me for talking in class

one of our fr. teachers was a crack-shot with little bits of chalk. and a maths teacher once threw a board-duster at my head. bastard. still, i imagine i deserved it. i was e-mailed some pictures the other week of me circa 1989, and i look like a supremely irritating, hyperactive little shit (as, in fairness, do all the other kids except the school psycho, who just looks very sad).

in 1987 or so we had a supply teacher for english. he was called mr burnsen; a big, booming, shock-haired old madman straight out of tom brown's fucking schooldays. i think i've mentioned him elsewhere on here.

his USP was that he ate matches; he'd be standing there wittering on about similes (he was big on similes, although "THE ASSYRIAN CAME DOWN LIKE A WOLF ON THE FOLD" was his only example) and would produce a matchbox from his pocket, take out a match, bite off the end and then put back the stick.

two grate friends ... fuck, this really is bringing out my inner molesworth ... anyway, two of my friends, whose folks were from bangladesh and india respectively, got moved to the front of the classroom during burnsen's very first lesson because "it's nothing personal, but i just don't really trust you people". it's odd: we were shocked, but none of us - including them - actually did very much about it other than laugh nervously. these days i imagine that would be an immediate-suspension offence.

there was also the memorable time he addressed jarred - who was, admittedly, a bell-end - with the immortal line: "HEY, YOU WITH THE EARS!"

a few weeks later he snapped after some kid made a cheeky remark and banged said kid's head off the desk repeatedly. and that was bye-bye burnsen, you crazy mad racist fucker.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 25 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

if that last bit up there is unclear, i'll just say that there is a TREMENDOUS amount of entitlement that bright students from wealthy neighborhoods feel, and bullying isn't just the big kids stomping down the hallways in scary packs, it's also glasses-wearing zit-faced band kids snickering as a group in the back of the classroom when the big intimidating-looking mexican kid in the front can't multiply "72 x 2" correctly.

i consider both bullying, and i see both on an equal basis daily.

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

High school is lonely for non-assholes.

― Abbott, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

i can't speak for you personally but i will say that in my general day-to-day i see a lot of shit getting thrown both ways.

perfect example = 9th grade lesbian goth student, always complaining about sexual harassment and gender discrimination and homophobia and getting bullied and so on, calls the student who sits next to her "RETARDO". now, his real name is "R1CARDO", and he really DOES have a learning disability and reads / does math at a grade school level.

cruelty begets cruelty

― lfam, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

abbott i don't think high school is full of assholes, i think there is a lot of bad / jerky / assholish behavior happening (both from students and, yes, teachers too) but i don't think that says anything about the people involved.

high school is an extremely high-pressure situation for everyone involved. you are surrounded by strangers, have to deal with parenting from people who aren't your parents, you are being constantly forced to assimilate unfamiliar information, you are constantly being judged on your performance - all this on top of the usual problems of being a teenager: your relationship to your parents, your body and the world is changing faster than you can keep track.

i doubt any adult non-asshole could do much better!

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

In certain classes, I was the raging dick vahid refers to - contradicting/arguing with my history and govt teachers for no good reason, refusing to do work I thought was BS, etc..

None of them ever lashed out at me, surprisingly.

― milo z, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

it's also glasses-wearing zit-faced band kids snickering as a group in the back of the classroom when the big intimidating-looking mexican kid in the front can't multiply "72 x 2" correctly.

Yeah, because the big intimidating kid (whatever his ethnicity) has to worry that the nerdy kids are going to follow that one up by beating the shit out of him, or pulling a nine on him, or etc. Sorry, bullying with the credible threat of violence >>>>>>> nerdy kids making slow learners feel bad.

(And way to throw a totally inappropriate ethnic red herring in there: "See, the nerdy kids are just as bad if not worse because they're racists!" Way to use that as a comeback against someone who just described being on the receiving end of some pretty flagrant examples of racism.)

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, frankly, based on what you've posted here, I think it's probably pretty inappropriate for someone with your identifying-with-the-aggressor, everyone-deserves-whatever-they-get attitude to have a job that puts you anywhere near young, vulnerable kids.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Clearly the big intimidating Mexican kid is going to 'pull a nine' on his classmates for snickering.

Nice of you to cleverly illustrate the man's point.

― milo z, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

because only mexican kids pull nines?

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

WHATEVER HIS ETHNICITY
WHATEVER HIS ETHNICITY
WHATEVER HIS ETHNICITY
WHATEVER HIS ETHNICITY
WHATEVER HIS ETHNICITY

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, seriously, fuck you for even insinuating that.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

it's not inappropriate buddy, it's what happened LAST FRIDAY @ 1:45 pm which made me turn red in the face and yell at the whole class, i'm not speaking in abstracts here, i'm telling you stories from life.

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

I don't doubt it, but your mentioning the fact that he was Mexican still comes off as rather cynical and manipulative.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

look i work in a school where i am constantly negotiating differentiated learning between low-income kids from mexico and higher-income white kids from the burbs, in the same classroom. it's not cynical, it's my experience

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

xp - because nerdy white kids would never pick on people who have, in other ways, even less social standing than they do?

― milo z, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, when nerds get together there is no telling what they might do

― lfam, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

but on the real, this thread isn't for exchanging insults with a teacher, it's for recounting old zings

― lfam, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

this thread isn't for exchanging insults with a teacher

It's also not for telling someone that they need therapy or calling them a grade-grubber who deserves whatever they get, either.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

You sound like a sensible & sympthetic guy, moonship. I just had a hard time in HS (and now) dealing with/avoiding people who cut each other down. But it is totally different for HS students for all the reasons you pointed out. It's its own crazy microcosm.

And jesus lurker, don't you remember what HS was like?

― Abbott, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

sorry i "manipulated" you into exposing your biases, lurker #4121, don't worry, we share them as a society.

there have been a couple of fights involving kids in my classes ... one was between two hispanic kids, one skinny and low-skilled, the other borderline-obese and low-skilled. one was between a nerdy white kid and a nerdy hispanic kid. there are actually a lot more girl fights at our school.

the actual credible physical aggression coming from the jock kids = close to none, actually (though obviously the students don't see it that way)

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I do remember what HS was like.

because nerdy white kids would never pick on people who have, in other ways, even less social standing than they do?

Nerdy kids - of any ethnicity - do not, normally, pose the threat of physical violence to their peers in the same way that "tough" kids - of any ethnicity - do.

The A students in my (pretty much all-white) high school didn't carry a nine in their cars. The band kids didn't get thrown out of school for fracturing another kid's skull. The drama club members didn't get accused of date rape.

And seriously, fuck you x 1000 for accusing me of racism.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

A (female, possibly quite barmy) sub teacher in primary school said "you there boy!" to me once :(

haha I've been mistaken for a girl many times! I don't understand it really!

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

?!?!?!

― Abbott, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, accuse me of classism, and it's a fair cop! Yes, I believe that lower- to lower-middle-class students are more likely to beat the shit out of their peers, more likely to get into violence, drugs, etc. -- because it's true! And I say that as someone whose parents almost never had an income above poverty-line for the first 20 years of my life.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

the students in my honors class pick on each other, in extremely vicious and subtle ways that are very, very hard for me to enforce - they make the kids in my regular class with 10 referrals look tame. i can write a referral from a student blurting out "FUCK YOU, BITCH" in the middle of my lecture (i have to, it's not an option to ignore that sort of behavior) but i can't write referrals for petty and subtle shit-talking (like when **d*ew asks k**s*a if she thinks she'll EVER get a date to a dance, and then bets her $1000 she won't)

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Watch out for PIG'S BLOOD PSYCHIC MASSACRE from asterix girl!

― Abbott, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

― milo z, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think the first thing is true, i don't think the second is true IN SCHOOL, outside school it may well be true, the third thing is false.

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

btw i apologized to remy offthread but i'll say again - i was very insensitive upthread, but my therapy suggestion was earnest.

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

What's making me so furious is vahid's insinuation that it's a two-way street and that makes it all OK. It's not, it's so completely fucking not -- whatever the nerds do is nothing, nothing compared to what the scary kids do, the kids whose parents beat the shit out of them three times a week and who come to school looking for a reason.

xpost OK, if you've apologized to him, that counts for a lot from my POV.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

I think you're just showing your hand about the treatment of nerdy kids by the 'scary kids' here.

― milo z, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

lurker, is physical violence the only form of 'picking on' you can conceive? You don't think that social ostracization (because of ethnicity or perceived intelligence) is more pervasive, if not equally hurtful as violence?

Milo, of course I can conceive of other forms of "picking on", but the nerds don't have any real power. To equate their snickerings with the real, credible threat of violence ("the big kids stomping down the hallways in scary packs") seemed, to me, deeply disingenuous. Keep in mind that "nerds" is his word, not mine -- if you just said "A student" that'd be one thing, but "nerd" inherently implies something very specific.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, I don't know about y'all, but in my high school, the nerds were nothings -- mocked, sidelined, ignored, occasionally attacked physically. High school is all about power, and one of its abiding ironies is that the least significant form of power is academic accomplishment. Physical strength, attractiveness, popularity, wealth -- these are the things that are significant. Maybe Vahid's school is very different.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

"I'm smarter than you and I'm out of this shithole town/situation the day after graduation" isn't a form of power? I know it was in my school.

I never once saw the stereotypical "smart kids get shit beaten out of them by jocks/etc" high school scenario. The kids who got picked on were chosen for their sexuality, their physical differences (very obese, etc.), sometimes ethnicity and their perceived (lack of) intelligence.

People don't dislike smart kids - they dislike smart kids who lord it over their 'inferiors.'

Maybe my experience was highly abnormal, but I never got that out of talking to other people. '90s high school didn't share that much in common with '80s teen comedies as it turns out.

― milo z, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

People don't dislike smart kids - they dislike smart kids who lord it over their 'inferiors.'

My experience is that they (grade/high school kids, not "people" at large) dislike difference of any kind, and that they're contemptuous of weakness. In my school, it was only OK to get good grades if you were good at sports. You had to be into certain things, and not into others.

I find statements like this so nauseating --

People don't dislike smart kids - they dislike smart kids who lord it over their 'inferiors.'

Yes, because it's definitely never happened that a pack of kids perceived someone as different and ganged up on them for it. If it has happened, it's always the victim's fault, for sure. If only he were cooler, you know?

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

So nauseating, I posted it twice! It's italicized Ipecac.

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

dnft

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 14 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think the first thing is true, i don't think the second is true IN SCHOOL, outside school it may well be true, the third thing is false.

Third thing = correlation between drugs and socioeconomic status, I refer you to this:

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm, something's triggering the "an error has occurred" bit. Lemme see if I can at least post the link:

www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0978/is_2_30/ai_n6167177/pg_5

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

[OK, is it the dollar signs?]

A high rural household income was protective, but rural and urban households reporting wealth of 10,000-49,000 [dollars] are positively associated with drug disorders. In addition, respondents without health insurance were more likely to have drug disorders across geographical contexts.

This, and other things in the same article, seem to clearly indicate that at least in some instances, household income is a strong correlate of drug and alcohol abuse. (It especially emphasizes "occupational stratum" as being a factor, i.e. blue-collar vs. white-collar.)

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

OK, it looks like I can't post text with dollar signs for some reason...?!

― lurker #2421, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

― Tape Store, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

Once in library class, my friend asked a really stupid question, and the old cranky librarian looked at him and yelled, "SHUT UP, YOU DIMWITTED NIMCOMPOOP!"

― Tape Store, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

The same librarian also gave a ten minute speech about underwear, telling one boy (in front of the class) that she didn't like seeing his small briefs and telling another girl to cross her legs. The rest of the ten minutes was spent talking about how such behavior would never go on when she was a kid.

― Tape Store, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe it's just no italics + dollar signs -- that doesn't seem to work. i.e.

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― lurker #2421, Sunday, 15 April 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

(doesn't work in the BBCode version, that is)

― lurker #2421, Sunday, 15 April 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

I went to a private elementary/middle school and then a really nice public high school. I can't really imagine a teacher saying stuff like this.

― 31g, Sunday, 15 April 2007 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

I never once saw the stereotypical "smart kids get shit beaten out of them by jocks/etc" high school scenario. The kids who got picked on were chosen for their sexuality, their physical differences (very obese, etc.), sometimes ethnicity and their perceived (lack of) intelligence.

This is correct. Although I did notice smart kids being bullied, I don't think they were picked on because of their intelligence, usually it seemed like people were picked on because they wouldn't put up a fight. So sometimes that could be a smart kid, but plenty of times it might just be a quiet or different type of child.

― Ronan, Sunday, 15 April 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

"Fuck off, Matt."

― Gukbe, Sunday, 15 April 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

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