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Originally Posted by Mortimer
Remember that old ploy....let's get the teacher off topic right away and he'll pontificate and yak his way through the whole class and we won't have to do anything?
Wouldn't you have loved to have had HoseGarden for every class in high school?
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I had plenty of teachers like this one. Last thing some kid needs is to be scared to ask a question, but that's most likely what goes on in his class. They answer a question with a question. If the kid can't answer, then teacher tells the kid(and the class) that he maybe gave them "too high a grade last year." For some reason math n' science attract Socratic-style teachers. You can see how he would rather refute an original statement than make one himself. He hunts for statements to disagree with. Some people like to bite their nails. He likes to look for opinions to refute. In other words, he loves to return a serve (way more than he actually likes to serve.) Let him have the last word, or else he will simply suck you of your energy.