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chollima
04/15/18 6:05:04 AM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43700153

TL;DR
- Never taught to read.
- Girls did all his homework for him.
- Copied in all his school/college exams.
- Became a teacher, showed a load of videos for 17 years.
- Tours US as success story.

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AmpForPresident
04/15/18 6:07:03 AM
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Hes a useless man.
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Jswift254
04/15/18 6:08:05 AM
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Sounds about right
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Romulox28
04/15/18 6:08:30 AM
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I remember praying at night and saying, "Please Lord, let me know how to read tomorrow when I get up" and sometimes I'd even turn on the light and get a book and look at it and see if I got a miracle. But I didn't get that miracle.

Lol I can relate with putting in such a lack of effort towards essential life skills
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NOM
04/15/18 6:13:41 AM
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Goddamn I literally taught myself how to read and I'm dumb as fuck
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Trayvon
04/15/18 6:35:06 AM
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lol is this, and I say this unironically, an example of white baby boomer privilege?
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Link HT
04/15/18 6:36:27 AM
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Romulox28 posted...
I remember praying at night and saying, "Please Lord, let me know how to read tomorrow when I get up" and sometimes I'd even turn on the light and get a book and look at it and see if I got a miracle. But I didn't get that miracle.

Lol I can relate with putting in such a lack of effort towards essential life skills

xD if that's an actual quote that is absolutely hysterical. Holy shit...
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pegusus123456
04/15/18 6:38:32 AM
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Link HT posted...
Romulox28 posted...
I remember praying at night and saying, "Please Lord, let me know how to read tomorrow when I get up" and sometimes I'd even turn on the light and get a book and look at it and see if I got a miracle. But I didn't get that miracle.

Lol I can relate with putting in such a lack of effort towards essential life skills

xD if that's an actual quote that is absolutely hysterical. Holy shit...

At the time he was doing that, he was in second grade.

This is actually a nice little article. Ironically, ya'll aren't bothering to read it.
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Link HT
04/15/18 6:43:41 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
At the time he was doing that, he was in second grade.

This is actually a nice little article. Ironically, ya'll aren't bothering to read it.

I actually went back and read it all just now, absolutely worth the read if only to see how absurd the system was back then that someone like this could get through.

I like the part about how he thinks he has "math skills" because he could count money, in the fucking eighth grade.
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Capital_Tenant
04/15/18 6:44:30 AM
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It was an interesting read. Thanks, TC.
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JE19426
04/15/18 6:44:38 AM
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One of my biggest fears was faculty meetings. We had them once a week and if the teachers were brainstorming the principal would call on somebody to get those ideas on to the board. I lived in fear that he would call on me, every week I was terrified, but I had a backup plan.

If he had called on me I was going to get out of my chair and take two steps, grab my chest, drop to the floor and hope they called 911. Whatever it took not to get caught, and I never got caught.


I....Uh umm wow.
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NeonOctopus
04/15/18 6:46:10 AM
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pegusus123456
04/15/18 6:48:56 AM
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NeonOctopus posted...
How did he grade homework? >_>

I would assume he either didn't assign any or one of his teacher aides graded it.
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NeonOctopus
04/15/18 6:49:51 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
NeonOctopus posted...
How did he grade homework? >_>

I would assume he either didn't assign any or one of his teacher aides graded it.

Wait, doesn't he have to write reports about students or do taxes or anything? >_> How did he get by his life and his job honestly lol
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pegusus123456
04/15/18 6:50:48 AM
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He was a teacher in the 60s, it was probably easier to fake back then.
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Link HT
04/15/18 6:54:57 AM
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Honestly the most mind boggling thing of all is how he never bothered to just secretly learn to read.

I have to assume he had the intelligence to do it, otherwise everyone around him would know immediately that he was borderline "mentally challenged".
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Choco
04/15/18 7:13:25 AM
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JE19426 posted...
One of my biggest fears was faculty meetings. We had them once a week and if the teachers were brainstorming the principal would call on somebody to get those ideas on to the board. I lived in fear that he would call on me, every week I was terrified, but I had a backup plan.

If he had called on me I was going to get out of my chair and take two steps, grab my chest, drop to the floor and hope they called 911. Whatever it took not to get caught, and I never got caught.


I....Uh umm wow.

lmfao

he's literally doug heffernan
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Rika_Furude
04/15/18 7:22:11 AM
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Rika_Furude
04/15/18 9:01:11 AM
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leverageblargh posted...
If this guy can make it that far in life what excuse do CEmen have

@REMercsChamp if this guy can teach without knowing how to read or write, why can't you get a job?
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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC
04/15/18 9:27:00 AM
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I heard about this guy years ago. I mean, if you're reading this you know how to read (obviously), and most of us here, someone taught us how, or at the worst, you taught yourself. But this guy is from the 'bootstraps' generation, and for him to admit that he didn't know how to read would have been borderline impossible.

It's not in this article, but I remember in the piece I read, when he went to the librarian and told her he couldn't read, he just broke down in tears admitting that to a stranger.
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V-E-G-Y-
04/15/18 9:43:37 AM
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GiftedACIII
04/15/18 9:56:27 AM
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Trump affecting the timestream so bad he's merging reality with the Onion's universe.
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pegusus123456
04/15/18 9:58:46 AM
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GiftedACIII posted...
Trump affecting the timestream so bad he's merging reality with the Onion's universe.

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Link HT
04/15/18 10:39:05 AM
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leverageblargh posted...
If this guy can make it that far in life what excuse do CEmen have

they're not good looking and charismatic white men in the 50's?
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Steve Nick
04/15/18 10:42:52 AM
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Based on the article, it sounds like this guy skated through life just based on being Chad.
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E32005
04/15/18 10:44:17 AM
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Coffeebeanz
04/15/18 10:48:46 AM
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Not nearly as depressing as how many nearly illiterate college graduates there are.
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thronedfire2
04/15/18 10:50:36 AM
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Steve Nick posted...
Based on the article, it sounds like this guy skated through life just based on being Chad.


This, lol
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GigaSPX
04/15/18 11:13:42 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
someone make a movie about this guy

Seriously. This would make a great biography film.
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FightingGames
04/15/18 11:25:43 AM
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Chad does it again
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Kolibri X
04/15/18 11:31:19 AM
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I had social skills too - I ran around with college kids, I dated the valedictorian - the student with the highest grades who gives a speech at the graduation ceremony, I was the homecoming king, I had people - mostly girls - do my homework for me.

Alpha as fuck.
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Manocheese
04/15/18 11:37:43 AM
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Spooking posted...
Another reason to abolish the teachers union.

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Jiek_Fafn
04/15/18 11:41:12 AM
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He taught typing and athletics for a lot of his career. You don't need to read anything to be a gym teacher and he says he could recognize letters and copy them. He just couldn't translate them into words.

He also taught social studies though...which I guess he just learned from videos. That one seems rough.
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Steve Nick
04/15/18 11:49:09 AM
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Jiek_Fafn posted...
He taught typing and athletics for a lot of his career. You don't need to read anything to be a gym teacher and he says he could recognize letters and copy them. He just couldn't translate them into words.

He also taught social studies though...which I guess he just learned from videos. That one seems rough.


Social studies is easy.

Tell your students to read the chapter.

Give them a work sheet on the chapter.

Show them a video.

On Fridays we watch Remember the Titans.
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Squall28
04/15/18 11:50:48 AM
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How does someone become such a Chad?
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V-E-G-Y-
04/15/18 4:12:59 PM
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gunplagirl
04/15/18 4:38:31 PM
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My question is

Will this revelation strip him of the pension he clearly should not be entitled to?
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UnfairRepresent
04/15/18 4:45:04 PM
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To be fair, I've had some shit ass teachers where the classes would have been 100 times better if we just had videos playing.

Christ there's more info for free out there on Youtube than you'll learn in a school class. Partly because pretty much any school class you can think of is on Youtube
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AlphaCuck
04/15/18 4:52:01 PM
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The American Dream tbh
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V-E-G-Y-
04/16/18 10:22:36 AM
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MetaMajik
04/16/18 10:24:03 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
GiftedACIII posted...
Trump affecting the timestream so bad he's merging reality with the Onion's universe.

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I like your reference!
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Hexenherz
04/16/18 10:25:35 AM
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chollima posted...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43700153

TL;DR

- Became a teacher, showed a load of videos for 17 years.

OL0ZlDr


It's funny because my friend taught month-long remedial language training classes to people who didn't have passing grades. He mostly showed them videos from kids shows to news broadcasts to blockbuster movies for a month. At the end they were getting some of the highest results.
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Hexenherz
04/16/18 10:29:45 AM
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One of my biggest fears was faculty meetings. We had them once a week and if the teachers were brainstorming the principal would call on somebody to get those ideas on to the board. I lived in fear that he would call on me, every week I was terrified, but I had a backup plan.

If he had called on me I was going to get out of my chair and take two steps, grab my chest, drop to the floor and hope they called 911. Whatever it took not to get caught, and I never got caught.
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Questionmarktarius
04/16/18 10:30:26 AM
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To be fair, this was quite a bit before Hooked on Phonics.
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MetaMajik
04/16/18 10:32:21 AM
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This man's story reads like something you watch in a movie, in fact it should be made into a movie. It's just crazy and I love it.
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Were_Wyrm
04/16/18 10:32:27 AM
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And teachers want to be paid more...
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CartmanMustDie
04/20/18 6:53:11 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
He was a teacher in the 60s, it was probably easier to fake back then.

He ironically was probably ahead of the time if he was mainly showing vids in the 60s
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