High School 'Sex Quiz' goes too far?

[Matthiasa]

Ah for mind in gutter thing though I like the dolphin one.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

To all the folks who are offended by the quiz, I wonder what is so irritating about these kinds of conceptual exercises? I know but, I'm curious as to your reasons. Is sexual innuendo so abhorrent that you feel the teacher should be severely disciplined or fired? Are your values and the ones you hope to instill in your children so threatened by these ideas that they should never be discussed in public? Will exposure to these concepts, in your opinion, further inure your children to perceived over sexuality of society or, somehow undermine your teachings?

 

[The-Noid]

Yes there are however, this was a simple written quiz. Tell me, do you also attempt to censor your daughter's reading material and FaceBook updates?

..... I was wrong you guys were right. This is exactly what kids need.

 

[The-Noid]

To all the folks who are offended by the quiz, I wonder what is so irritating about these kinds of conceptual exercises? I know but, I'm curious as to your reasons. Is sexual innuendo so abhorrent that you feel the teacher should be severely disciplined or fired? Are your values and the ones you hope to instill in your children so threatened by these ideas that they should never be discussed in public? Will exposure to these concepts, in your opinion, further inure your children to perceived over sexuality of society or, somehow undermine your teachings?

..... I was wrong you guys were right. This is exactly what kids need.

 

[The-Noid]

To all the folks who are offended by the quiz, I wonder what is so irritating about these kinds of conceptual exercises? I know but, I'm curious as to your reasons. Is sexual innuendo so abhorrent that you feel the teacher should be severely disciplined or fired? Are your values and the ones you hope to instill in your children so threatened by these ideas that they should never be discussed in public? Will exposure to these concepts, in your opinion, further inure your children to perceived over sexuality of society or, somehow undermine your teachings?

..... I was wrong you guys were right. This is exactly what kids need.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I am in no way offended by the quiz. It is the teacher, who as time and time again has overstepped their boundaries. What people do with their children right or wrong in your opinion is up to them, unless laws of state or humanity are broken.

Teachers need to stay in their place and do what they do. Passing around joke email forwards is not that place and referring to this as a quiz is outlandish.

What exactly is a teachers "place.?" Teachers should never use someone elses work to teach? I have asked several different ways to determine what about this is so offensive to you but, have not received a creditable answer other than a blanket "I am in no way offended by the quiz." If that is true, then what is the problem?

 

[CallMeJoe]

If this level of sexual innuendo is so mortally offensive, I hope these students are never exposed to network television or popular music.

 

[The-Noid]

..... I was wrong you guys were right. This is exactly what kids need.

 

[The-Noid]

If this level of sexual innuendo is so mortally offensive, I hope these students are never exposed to network television or popular music.

..... I was wrong you guys were right. This is exactly what kids need.

 

[LumbergTech]

like the lost catacombs of egypt only god knows where we stuck it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUqhikrOVnQ

 

[her209]

A teachers place is to recite text books and grade tests and papers. Stepping outside the box is something they fail at, otherwise they wouldn't be teachers. The world didn't get the phrase "those who do, do. Those who don't teach," for no reason.

Interesting theory. The best teachers I had were the ones who got students excited about learning the subject material by stepping out of the box. The worst teachers were the ones who taught only from the textbook.

And the correct phrase is, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

 

[LumbergTech]

Interesting theory. The best teachers I had were the ones who got students excited about learning the subject material by stepping out of the box. The worst teachers were the ones who taught only from the textbook.

And the correct phrase is, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

the saying is also a bunch of shit, lots of my professors at public university had done significant things and had fairly good credentials in their area of work
even the people who were sort of crappy teachers had done things previously

 

[her209]

the saying is also a bunch of shit, lots of my professors at public university had done significant things and had fairly good credentials in their area of work
even the people who were sort of crappy teachers had done things previously

I know its shit. I was just correcting the saying.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Some people need to find out what is in the programs that High Schools give to inform students about sexual harassment. Oh! This is about students in a pre-college prep course.

 

[The-Noid]

Interesting theory. The best teachers I had were the ones who got students excited about learning the subject material by stepping out of the box. The worst teachers were the ones who taught only from the textbook.

And the correct phrase is, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

..... I was wrong you guys were right. This is exactly what kids need.

 

[The-Noid]

the saying is also a bunch of shit, lots of my professors at public university had done significant things and had fairly good credentials in their area of work
even the people who were sort of crappy teachers had done things previously

..... I was wrong you guys were right. This is exactly what kids need.

 

[davmat787]

If this level of sexual innuendo is so mortally offensive, I hope these students are never exposed to network television or popular music.

If it is mortally offensive, wouldn't they be dead? :sneaky:

Besides, I don't think the issue is really if this is offensive to you or I. Rather, is the subject material used most appropriate to teach the lesson given the ages and environment involved.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Interesting theory. The best teachers I had were the ones who got students excited about learning the subject material by stepping out of the box. The worst teachers were the ones who taught only from the textbook.

And the correct phrase is, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

An ancient phrase actually meaning, "Those who can, do. Those too old or crippled, teach their skills to the young." A retirement program for those that survived past the forty year life span.

 

[CPA]

Yes there are however, this was a simple written quiz. Tell me, do you also attempt to censor your daughter's reading material and FaceBook updates?

You bet your ass. My daughter doesn't have a Facebook page and won't in the near future. It's not censorship, it's good parenting.

 

[Red Dawn]

You bet your ass. My daughter doesn't have a Facebook page and won't in the near future. It's not censorship, it's good parenting.

Aren't you a Swinger?


http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1225712&highlight=swinger

You wouldn't want your kids to have loose morals

 

[silverpig]

There are countless other ways of doing that.

Maybe the issue was revolving around sexuality...

 

[Slew Foot]

Completely appropriate for an AP psych class. Its supposed to be a college equivalent.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Uptight puritan nation.

 

[silverpig]

There are professors with lengthy backgrounds at the post-secondary level, however at the K-12 level very few have done anything besides teach.

Your idea of what a teacher should do is quite... horrible. Teachers have at least an undergraduate degree, often two, and many have a master's as well. Some even have Ph.Ds - and this is at the high school level.

They spend their educational and professional careers studying how to teach. They learn how the teenage mind works, they learn about varying teaching methods, presentation methods, communication skills etc. You coming in and telling them what they should and shouldn't do is, well, ignorant.

I wouldn't walk into an engineering firm and tell them that their designs are all wrong. I wouldn't go to a doctor, get a diagnosis, tell him he was wrong, and then tell him what it should have been.

If you check out the curriculum of AP Psychology, you'll find the topics to be taught include:

Predict the validity of behavioral explanations based on the quality of research design (eg, confounding variables limit confidence in research conclusions)

Discuss maturational challenges in adolescence, including related family conflicts.

Characterize the development of decisions related to intimacy as people mature.

Predict the physical and cognitive changes that emerge as people age, including
steps that can be taken to maximize function.

Describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development

Explain how psychologists design tests, including standardization strategies and other techniques to establish reliability and validity

Debate the appropriate testing practices, particularly in relation to culture-fair test use

There's also a whole bunch of stuff in there about societal influence on responses, societal conditioning etc.

 

[techforums]

utterly utterly utterly utterly utterly shocked.