"Americans Are Lazy"

Moz

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Did your daughter tell the teacher that she is, in fact, a dual citizen of Canada AND America?
 

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That is not politically correct at all, no to mention not appropriate to be teaching young children either. Glad your daughter told you.
 

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At best that was an insensitive remark, even if the teacher thought she was making a joke. One does need to take a little more care when "joking" with kids, because they sometimes don't have sufficient experience to realize a joke is meant, and thus take the remark at face value. A pronouncement of that sort from a person in authority could colour the students' perception of the group in question. I'd talk with the teacher about it.
 

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Originally Posted by SwampWitch

It was a derogatory joke, aimed at an audience who would not get the joke, and who would end up taking what she said at face value. I'll bet every nine-year old in the class took what their teacher said as a fact.

Imagine any teacher telling a classroom of students:

First Nations people are lazy because _____.
Females are lazy because _____.
Jesus and his followers were lazy because _____.
Writers are lazy because _____.
Jewish people are lazy because _____.
French Canadians are lazy because _____.

I find it offensive for a teacher to negatively stereotype groups of people to her students.
I agree, children of that age beleive what their teacher tell them , and form their sense of values , right ,wrong, negative or possitive,
 

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I am offened!!! I'm American and I've always thought it was odd about the U thing, but not that any way was better than the other!!! I really cannot believe a TEACHER said that. Sicking.....
 

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Heck, I'm American, but I put the U in some words just 'cause I like it better!

I doubt the teacher realized the potential damage she was doing with that comment, but she certainly needs to be made aware.

When I was a kid, an adult told me that people of a certain nationality smelled bad, so I should try not to sit next them in choir. I did get seated next to such a person, and I kept waiting for the smell... leaning over, surreptitiously sniffing...

Nope, smelled okay to me!
So much for stupid prejudices.
 

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If I'm making typos that makes me lazy? what if I don't like to do laundry / cook / work / bother people on the phone?

I think the worse part is calling someone lazy just because of typos. From now on I'm calling myself hippie because I know how to spell the word 'hip'
 

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What an odd thing to say. Do substitute teachers in your province need to have an education degree? Here they just need a bachelor's, which I think is a mistake when they will be long-term like that.

And she could have used it as an excuse to talk about history! We spell them that way because Noah Webster thought British spellings were too complicated, and he didn't like American children being taught from British books so he made his own during the Revolution.
 
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