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Ferguson

Is Ferguson about...

  • Racism

    Votes: 16 19.5%

  • Police injustice

    Votes: 22 26.8%

  • Cultural differences

    Votes: 12 14.6%

  • Class Warfare

    Votes: 12 14.6%

  • Crazy people

    Votes: 26 31.7%

  • All the above

    Votes: 29 35.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 16 19.5%
  • Total voters
    82
Removable Mind said:
Bod, the conversation with your student is actually priceless, IMO. It exemplifies what we see happening in a lot of places - where fiction is readily accepted as fact. It's like we are witnessing some strange form of social groupthink, which is somehow the impetus for degrading children's ability to engage in critical thinking, problem solving, and social skills. And even worse, this phenomenon apparently goes back several generations, thus explaining why the student's parents thought they were watching a documentary.

Governments love this. These are the type of empowering citizens that support the idocracies.

Remember the following song?:

"Greatest Love Of All"

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be


I'd have to say that it's appear more and more to not be a happy situation for a lot of folks who will have to depend on their kids of the future. It's a sad deal.

Thanks
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After that incident, just to see how many students will believe ridiculous junk I went on with my various classes and had a little fun. I am very believable and have a dry sarcasm and a great poker face. We were looking at the Roman Empire and I showed a few scenes from Gladiator. I told them that it was first hand footage. Almost all students in a couple of classes weren't sure if I was serious. I told them that the Romans invented video technology but that it was lost and that is what the Dark Ages were about. That archaeologists in the 1930's discovered the video footage and there we go! Most bought it and I then had to convince them that I was joking... amazing. I have a ton of stories where I fake out my students and it is alarming...
 
Bodhisattva said:
After that incident, just to see how many students will believe ridiculous junk I went on with my various classes and had a little fun. I am very believable and have a dry sarcasm and a great poker face. We were looking at the Roman Empire and I showed a few scenes from Gladiator. I told them that it was first hand footage. Almost all students in a couple of classes weren't sure if I was serious. I told them that the Romans invented video technology but that it was lost and that is what the Dark Ages were about. That archaeologists in the 1930's discovered the video footage and there we go! Most bought it and I then had to convince them that I was joking... amazing. I have a ton of stories where I fake out my students and it is alarming...
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:lamo ...that's what I'm talking about Bod! I think your experiment was a really good idea.

I mean red flags and arguments galore should have streamed out of all of your students...not with pause, apprehension or wonderment. They should have been screaming and waving and saying, "Mr. Bod, your full of ****!"

What a great story...and a testament to just how important it is for kids to (be taught) and measurably so - in ways that enhance their critical thinking, problem solving, and social skills.

BUT:

Teachers simply can't do this alone. It takes willing parents to support teachers and take on the responsibility of doing what they can to make these important learning tasks a reality for their children - outside of school.

Keep on keeping them on their toes, Bod!
 
Removable Mind said:
:lamo ...that's what I'm talking about Bod! I think your experiment was a really good idea.

I mean red flags and arguments galore should have streamed out of all of your students...not with pause, apprehension or wonderment. They should have been screaming and waving and saying, "Mr. Bod, your full of ****!"

What a great story...and a testament to just how important it is for kids to (be taught) and measurably so - in ways that enhance their critical thinking, problem solving, and social skills.

BUT:

Teachers simply can't do this alone. It takes willing parents to support teachers and take on the responsibility of doing what they can to make these important learning tasks a reality for their children - outside of school.

Keep on keeping them on their toes, Bod!
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My top classes didn't fall for it but the lower ones all did and the middle ones most students did... the common sense or ability to think gulf between top students and middle and middle to top students is growing and that is alarming.
 
Muhammed said:
My understanding is that the naked guy ate a homeless guy's face. Or something.

Then a cop shot the face-eater guy.
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Your understanding is incorrect, completely.
 
Bodhisattva said:
I had a student last year that mentioned that zombies were real. I asked where she heard this and she said that her parents and sister and her were watching a documentary the previous night that showed that zombies were real. I asked what documentary it was or what channel it was an she didn't know. I eventually found out that they watched 28 Days Later and truly thought it was a documentary... no joke.
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Wow -- well, I have head of "zombies" or "living dead" in Haiti, but it's not like the zombies on 28 Days Later. Well, technically 28 Days Later isn't about zombies anyway. It's people who are alive, and infected. But I have read that there are powders and concoctions that can slow your heart rate to make people think you are dead.

The Serpent and the Rainbow (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bodhisattva said:
After that incident, just to see how many students will believe ridiculous junk I went on with my various classes and had a little fun. I am very believable and have a dry sarcasm and a great poker face. We were looking at the Roman Empire and I showed a few scenes from Gladiator. I told them that it was first hand footage. Almost all students in a couple of classes weren't sure if I was serious. I told them that the Romans invented video technology but that it was lost and that is what the Dark Ages were about. That archaeologists in the 1930's discovered the video footage and there we go! Most bought it and I then had to convince them that I was joking... amazing. I have a ton of stories where I fake out my students and it is alarming...
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*Scary* How old are your students, Bodhi?
 
Sykes said:
Did I need to post a sarcasm smilie? I thought the statement was snarky enough to avoid this kind of return volley.
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I was agreeing with you....
 
Lursa said:
I didnt realize you were referring to a different case.

It isnt the same one I was referring to.
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What then? :shrug:

Are you talking about the case where some black dude robbed a white dude at a convenience store and then attacked another white dude who was a cop?

:)
 
Muhammed said:
Are you talking about the case where some black dude robbed a white dude at a convenience store and then attacked another white dude was a cop?

:)
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No. I was discussing a specific case in Bellevue, WA that had to do with the perceptions of 'justifiable' use of lethal force.

Yes, I know I'm taking your reply 'literally.'
 
Lursa said:
No. I was discussing a specific case in Bellevue, WA that had to do with the perceptions of 'justifiable' use of lethal force.
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I thought the subject of this thread was Ferguson.

Why are you babbling about Bellevue?
 
Muhammed said:
I thought the subject of this thread was Ferguson.

Why are you babbling about Bellevue?
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Then why were you babbling about naked face-eating in FL?
 
Superfly said:
Wow -- well, I have head of "zombies" or "living dead" in Haiti, but it's not like the zombies on 28 Days Later. Well, technically 28 Days Later isn't about zombies anyway. It's people who are alive, and infected. But I have read that there are powders and concoctions that can slow your heart rate to make people think you are dead.

The Serpent and the Rainbow (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





*Scary* How old are your students, Bodhi?
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High school. :lol: The level of gullibility is ever increasing, it seems. Not sure why...
 
It's about cultural differences among the races. I can't see an Indian guy, an Anglo guy or an Asian guy fighting a cop in broad daylight in the middle of a street. Africans simply are more confrontational culturally as well as so extremely culturally unique that this equates to conflict with Western police forces.
 
Ryan5 said:
It's about cultural differences among the races. I can't see an Indian guy, an Anglo guy or an Asian guy fighting a cop in broad daylight in the middle of a street. Africans simply are more confrontational culturally as well as so extremely culturally unique that this equates to conflict with Western police forces.
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Africans? I think the residents of ferguson are mostly Americans, having grown up here...
 
The Mark said:
Africans? I think the residents of ferguson are mostly Americans, having grown up here...
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Do you really think an Asian guy, an Indian guy or an Anglo guy would walk up to police officers like this with a knife completely sober?

I don't think so..

 
Ryan5 said:
Do you really think an Asian guy, an Indian guy or an Anglo guy would walk up to police officers like this with a knife completely sober?

I don't think so..

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it would depend on the motivation.

Is that footage of the event which sparked all this ****storm?
 
The Mark said:
it would depend on the motivation.

Is that footage of the event which sparked all this ****storm?
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It's the second guy that got shot after the brown guy.
 
SheWolf said:
Wasn't he unarmed? How could he have been threatening the cop's life???
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do you know which firearm is most likely to be used to kill a cop?

his own. so when someone attacks a police officer physically there is a good chance the attacker is trying to take the officer's weapon to use against him. It has happened many a time
 
TurtleDude said:
do you know which firearm is most likely to be used to kill a cop?

his own. so when someone attacks a police officer physically there is a good chance the attacker is trying to take the officer's weapon to use against him. It has happened many a time
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When Wilson broke his eye socket..right?
 
Gimmesometruth said:
When Wilson broke his eye socket..right?
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I am going to reserve judgment until there are more facts

I find it hilarious that many of the people who are quick to damn the cops are the same ones who think only cops should be able to legally have firearms btw. So I don't know if it was a legal shooting or not but it seems the evidence that is mounting is in favor of the cop. But those rioting are scum pure and simple
 
TurtleDude said:
I am going to reserve judgment until there are more facts
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Ha ha!
Sure you are, that's why you are assuming that there was a struggle to begin with!

I find it hilarious that many of the people who are quick to damn the cops are the same ones who think only cops should be able to legally have firearms btw.
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BTW, this is straw since I never said anything like what you are implying.
So I don't know if it was a legal shooting or not but it seems the evidence that is mounting is in favor of the cop.
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LOL! This is you again "reserving judgement"!

ROFLOL!


But those rioting are scum pure and simple
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Reserving judgement against those practicing 1st amendment rights!

You should take this act on the road.
 
What no one seems to understand here or perhaps is just unwilling to acknowledge is that all this protest is an accumulation of years of targeting and police abuse abuse of power. It's not about just this incident any more than the reaction to Trayvon Martin was about just that incident. How could anyone look at these events and not acknowledge that they are indicative of a greater problem. The real question is, what is the greater problem?
 
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