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I feel sorry for the rest of the kids...
opelmanta1900 Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 01-10-2012
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you know, the ones with a sense of humor... they won't get to have any more fun with this teacher cuz of lil ms stick in the mud Lizeth Villanueva... congrats liz, you ruiner of fun, you destroyer of good times... you'll make quite the first wife for someone someday...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/26/texas-teachers-give-most-likely-to-become-a-terrorist-award-to-13-year-old/?utm_term=.b4be86991eb5

Seventh-grader Lizeth Villanueva has been in her school’s academic honors program for two years. She gets good grades and has never been a discipline problem. Yet on Tuesday, her teacher gave her a “most likely to become a terrorist” award.

It was supposed to be a joke, part of a mock end-of-the-year awards ceremony at Anthony Aguirre Junior High in Channelview, Tex., near Houston, where a group of teachers hand certificates to students. Lizeth, 13, said her teacher “just laughed” when she signed and handed her the certificate, just one day after the Manchester arena terrorist attack in Britain.

But Lizeth’s mother Ena Hernandez didn’t find the award funny at all.

“I was upset and very mad when I saw the award,” Hernandez told The Washington Post. “I was surprised because my daughter has been doing well in the honors program.”

Lizeth, who is Salvadoran American, wasn’t laughing either. Her emotion was one of shock, she said.

She said two honors classes were brought together for the fake ceremony. Other awards included “most likely to cry for every little thing” that was given to a girl and “most likely to become homeless” that was presented to a boy.

The three other teachers in the room laughed when the awards were handed out, according to Lizeth.

Channelview Independent School District spokesman Mark Kramer told KPRC the awards were a “poor attempt to poke fun” and it “wasn’t well thought out.”

Hernandez said the principal Eric Lathan personally apologized during a meeting at the school.

In a statement the school district said:

“The Channelview ISD Administration would like to apologize for the insensitive and offensive fake mock awards that were given to students in a classroom. Channelview ISD would like to assure all students, parents and community members that these award statements and ideals are not representative of the district’s vision, mission and educational goals for our students.

“The teachers involved in this matter have been disciplined according to district policy and the incident is still under investigation.”

Hernandez says she wants them fired or else “they will continue doing the same thing.”

Lizeth hasn’t been back to school because she “feels uncomfortable.”
Buckwheat Offline
#2 Posted:
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Why is a teacher trying to "poke fun" at a student? fog

Reminds me of the lyrics to Little Dreamer.

"And then they went and they voted you
Least likely to succeed
I had to tell them baby you were armed with
All you'd need
Seems no one's talking 'bout those crazy days gone past
Weren't they amazed when you were really last?
You are the little dreamer"
DrafterX Offline
#3 Posted:
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TW got awards for Fattest Kid & Smelliest Kid and he was grateful... Mellow
MACS Offline
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People need to lighten the f*** up, nowadays.

I can't believe we've become a nation of perpetually offended pussies.
opelmanta1900 Offline
#5 Posted:
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Buckwheat wrote:
Why is a teacher trying to "poke fun" at a student? fog

Reminds me of the lyrics to Little Dreamer.

"And then they went and they voted you
Least likely to succeed
I had to tell them baby you were armed with
All you'd need
Seems no one's talking 'bout those crazy days gone past
Weren't they amazed when you were really last?
You are the little dreamer"

no one was poking fun at a student... every student got an award for something satirical... most likely to be homeless was another funny one... the problem isn't the teacher, it's the snowflake... if these kids don't learn how to laugh about stuff like this, they're destined to be welfare pits... the real world, a real job, will not cater to her sensitivites... God forbid she ever has a job where she encounters a customer who says something she doesn't like, she just won't show up anymore because she "feels uncomfortable"...
opelmanta1900 Offline
#6 Posted:
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Someone in the comment section of this story just accused me of being behind the extinction of snow... as in, snow is going extinct, and people like me are the reason... now I feel uncomfortable...
MACS Offline
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
Someone in the comment section of this story just accused me of being behind the extinction of snow... as in, snow is going extinct, and people like me are the reason... now I feel uncomfortable...


Did you tell them the polar ice caps have melted previously, and then expanded again? Because they have you know... three times that we are aware of.
Buckwheat Offline
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MACS wrote:
Did you tell them the polar ice caps have melted previously, and then expanded again? Because they have you know... three times that we are aware of.


Only if you believe that the earth is older than 6,000 years old. Sarcasm
DrafterX Offline
#9 Posted:
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overheard some dude trying to convince another dude the earth was only two thousand years old... said 'if you believe in God you have to believe the earth is only two thousand years old'... I kept walking... Mellow
opelmanta1900 Offline
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Those are my favorite kinda people... also the ones who think the world has to 6000 years old, the ones who think it has to be 10,000 years old, and the ones who won't accept anything under hundreds of millions of years...
DrafterX Offline
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ya, don't know why some people can't accept the fact we crawled outta ponds... and of course some ponds were better than others.. Mellow
MACS Offline
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Wow. Politics and religion in one thread. d'oh!

I know enough to know that... I don't know... what I do know is that science, itself, teaches us you cannot get something from nothing.
opelmanta1900 Offline
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Is that the same science that teaches about all that chromosome phooey? I don't listen to that stuff... my gender's determined when i say it's determined...
Stinkdyr Offline
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DrafterX wrote:
overheard some dude trying to convince another dude the earth was only two thousand years old... said 'if you believe in God you have to believe the earth is only two thousand years old'... I kept walking... Mellow


That is why I pray to FSM........no issues with science etc.

Hasta la Pasta beeches!

Big Hug
opelmanta1900 Offline
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Just read another of the "awards" handed out was for "most likely to blend in with white people", given to a black girl, and a "most likely to be homeless in Guatemala" given to an Hispanic boy...

Now, without looking in your books for the answer, what race and gender is the teacher?
MACS Offline
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
Now, without looking in your books for the answer, what race and gender is the teacher?


No article I found mentions anything about the teacher... so she must not be white, or that would have been the headline.

"White, racist teacher makes fun of kids of color".
opelmanta1900 Offline
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Oh i thought old white dude for sure... putting up with sh*t from seventh graders for 30+years, finally gets pushed over the edge when he overhears a lively discussion about white privilege and starts administering "black tests" to students (the teacher in this incident apparently administered a black test to an African American student who was acting "too white")...

But nope... black lady...
MACS Offline
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I still think people need to lighten up. I'm not outraged. I don't think she should be fired.

Put in the corner and made to wear the dunce cap, maybe...
Abrignac Offline
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
But nope... black lady...


Who cares. It's all pink inside.
tailgater Offline
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Buckwheat wrote:
Only if you believe that the earth is older than 6,000 years old. Sarcasm


It isn't?
tailgater Offline
#21 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
Wow. Politics and religion in one thread. d'oh!

I know enough to know that... I don't know... what I do know is that science, itself, teaches us you cannot get something from nothing.


It's true.
I once dated nothing.

DrafterX Offline
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So, you just used your hand..?? Huh
Speyside Offline
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It is sad that our society has so sensitized children to be upset by words. When we were children we would have laughed at this. I am sure that was the teachers intent.
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