My son's class today learned there are 9 planets in the Solar System

cruais

boogle wrote: »

These Montessori teachers, are not actually teachers. They are (hopefully) qualified childcare staff. HUGE difference.

Not true boogle. There are colleges that supply degrees in Montessori primary education, aged 3-12 years of age and these degrees are recognised by the department of education and the teachers are registered with the teaching council.

Xavi6

This is the first I've heard of Pluto no longer being a planet.

Amongst my huge disappointment, I'm glad to have been once again educated by Boards.

Napper Hawkins

I have decided that Pluto is now a planet. Because who the **** cares, honestly...

ch750536

ejmaztec wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055747615

Reading English comes in handy as well. :P

It does. Thankfully repairing the poor grammar and spelling in the post was relevant as it was what the OP was about.

Irish Guitarist

I'd agree with the teacher. The way Pluto has been treated just isn't right. It's about time he was treated with some respect. :mad:

Milk & Honey

When I was going to school the sun and planets went around the earth.

Squ

Milk & Honey wrote: »

When I was going to school the sun and planets went around the earth.

Hmmm, makes sense i suppose.

Pherekydes

black and amber wrote: »

This has to be one of the most ridiculous threads i have seen in a long time, if this 4 year old scholar was told 2+2 = 10...

This could be true in a four-fingered universe! :pac:

crazy cabbage

^^^ there is actully 90 planets :eek:

folan

PLUTO 4 EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plazaman

Send him to school with a pack of THESE and he'll be an astronomer by Christmas.

tinkerbell

Xavi6 wrote: »

This is the first I've heard of Pluto no longer being a planet.

Amongst my huge disappointment, I'm glad to have been once again educated by Boards.

Yep, same here - this is the first I've heard that Pluto was demoted its planet status!

gozunda

OP

Show you pre-schooler the picture below

Pluto does exist!

LINK

sbsquarepants

Pluto shmuto, i only found out the other day that brontosaurus doesn't exist and he was my favourite dinosaur - well 2nd favourite but they'll probably be saying that godzilla isn't real either next. Fúcking montessori schools always getting shít wrong:mad:

Capt'n Midnight

sbsquarepants wrote: »

i only found out the other day that brontosaurus doesn't exist and he was my favourite dinosaur - well 2nd favourite but they'll probably be saying that godzilla isn't real either next.

Well if you go by the rule that the first name applies then the big monster is Gojira

Capt'n Midnight

poisonated wrote: »

I remember I was thought that Bono was a prophet. you learn all sorts of stuff in school.

Bobo made $1.5Bn on facebook.

He's a profit.

namloc1980

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

I have decided that Pluto is now a planet. Because who the **** cares, honestly...

Well if you've decided Pluto is a planet that means there are now 13 planets. Can you name them?

squod

namloc1980 wrote: »

Well if you've decided Pluto is a planet that means there are now 13 planets. Can you name them?

Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Comet
Cupid
Donner
Blitzen
Rudolph
Earth
Mars
Moon

The Pluto thing is no big deal. In a few years they will reclassify it again. The important facts for a kid are that its very far away and it goes around the sun. It's really good tht they are teaching about the solar system.

In my view the 25 spelling and gramatical errors in a few lines is more worrying as it shows either ignorance or carelessness on the part of the school management. Are they actual errors or just places where you might have written it differently/better?

I am often amazed how many people don't know or care about the differences between their, they're and there, your and you're, lose and loose.

telecaster

squod wrote: »

Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Comet
Cupid
Donner
Blitzen
Rudolph
Earth
Mars
Moon

Comet is not a planet

Conall Cernach

Deleted User wrote: »

The Pluto thing is no big deal. In a few years they will reclassify it again. The important facts for a kid are that its very far away and it goes around the sun. It's really good tht they are teaching about the solar system.

I don't think I was ever taught about the planets at any level in school. I was interested in that sort of stuff too so it would have been something I would have been good at.

pickarooney

ch750536 wrote: »

You speak betterer english!

Virtually all of your 'corrections' are wrong.

Montessori kid?

jmayo

gozunda wrote: »

Montessori me ^rse....try this for size!

I well remember in third year (Secondary School) that the Geography teacherasked each student to name a star

Easy thinks I - So I get off the mark quickly and list the nearest one forher like a good student - the Sun

When bam I got a negative from her

Says she - the sun is not a star....

So ok I says what is the sun then?

The sun is the sun! she says

So I says - Well if you travelled out into space and looked back at the sunwhat would you see then? says I

The sun says she!

But would it would diminish in apparent size and look like a star?- says I

No says she - it would be the sun!

Queue me banging my head on the desk repeatedly until unconscious

When you said try this for size, you din't have to take it literally.
Is this a result of banging your head ?

Milk & Honey wrote: »

When I was going to school the sun and planets went around the earth.

You went to school. :eek:
Lucky sod.

gozunda

jmayo wrote: »

gozunda wrote: »

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Montessori me ^rse....try this for size!

I well remember in third year (Secondary School) that the Geography teacherasked each student to name a star

Easy thinks I - So I get off the mark quickly and list the nearest one forher like a good student - the Sun

When bam I got a negative from her

Says she - the sun is not a star....

So ok I says what is the sun then?

The sun is the sun! she says

So I says - Well if you travelled out into space and looked back at the sunwhat would you see then? says I

The sun says she!

But would it would diminish in apparent size and look like a star?- says I

No says she - it would be the sun!

Queue me banging my head on the desk repeatedly until unconscious

When you said try this for size, you din't have to take it literally.
Is this a result of banging your head

Never been right since I leaned that the Sun was in fact the Sun! I am away to boil turnips....

Akrasia

Pluto is still a planet in my little brother in laws 6th class science book too.

But that's forgivable, what was unforgivable was that they went through the whole solar system section of that textbook and the teacher didn't make a single 'your anus' joke.

Feeona

I wonder what he learned today?

Mr Benevolent

Akrasia wrote: »

Pluto is still a planet in my little brother in laws 6th class science book too.

But that's forgivable, what was unforgivable was that they went through the whole solar system section of that textbook and the teacher didn't make a single 'your anus' joke.

You mean 'your rectum'. That's what it was renamed to recently.

Boombastic

Akrasia wrote: »

Pluto is still a planet in my little brother in laws 6th class science book too.

But that's forgivable, what was unforgivable was that they went through the whole solar system section of that textbook and the teacher didn't make a single 'your anus' joke.

Not really forgivable when the book companies & teacher insist you buy the new version every year as it has been updated. Pluto stopped being a planet since 2006 at least

golden lane

Boombastic wrote: »

Not really forgivable when the book companies & teacher insist you buy the new version every year as it has been updated. Pluto stopped being a planet since 2006 at least

pluto has not changed for millions of years....... humans have.....now they just can't stop finding something to moan about....

Floggers

Sing to the tune of Frère Jacques...

'There are 9 planets, there are 9 planets,

Orbiting the sun, orbiting the sun,

Mercury, Venus, Earth,

Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,

Uranius and Neptune,

Not forgetting Pluto.....'

cyrusdvirus

Floggers wrote: »

Sing to the tune of Frère Jacques...

'There are 9 planets, there are 9 planets,

Orbiting the sun, orbiting the sun,

Mercury, Venus, Earth,

Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,

Uranius and Neptune,

Not forgetting Pluto.....'

The mnemonic we were taught was

My
Very
Educated
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nine
Pizza's


Apparently now she serves Nachos

jmayo

gatecrash wrote: »

The mnemonic we were taught was

My
Very
Educated
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nine
Pizza's


Apparently now she serves Nachos

Must be since Pizzas became vegetables ?

telecaster

Feeona wrote: »

I wonder what he learned today?

Today his teacher checked up to see who remembered yesterday's lesson.

He told her there are 8 planets and that Pluto is not a planet.

She asked "What is Pluto?"

He replied "Mickey Mouse's friend"

Game, set and match to the thinly veiled intelligent kid

CelticRambler

Meanwhile, back on earth, my niece was told last week that Clare is in Connacht, and given a photocopied map to prove it. :eek:

davet82

telecaster wrote: »

Today his teacher checked up to see who remembered yesterday's lesson.

He told her there are 8 planets and that Pluto is not a planet.

She asked "What is Pluto?"

He replied "Mickey Mouse's friend"

Game, set and match to the thinly veiled intelligent kid

now the teacher will never let her use the play-doh, well done :mad:

Feeona

telecaster wrote: »

Today his teacher checked up to see who remembered yesterday's lesson.

He told her there are 8 planets and that Pluto is not a planet.

She asked "What is Pluto?"

He replied "Mickey Mouse's friend"

Game, set and match to the thinly veiled intelligent kid

Ah that's revision. Did he learn anything new?

Saruman

When I was in primary school my history books told stories on Irish legends like Cú Chulainn etc.
I would not worry about a simple re-clasified planet.

Spread

gatecrash wrote: »

Start a petition to get Pluto reclassified as a Planet.

That way your sons faith in teachers knowledge will not be rocked.

In the great scheme of animated things, Pluto IS a canis major!

Spread

gatecrash wrote: »

The mnemonic we were taught was

My
Very
Educated
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nine
Pizza's


Apparently now she serves Nachos

Bad parenting. Nine pizzas? Child abuse leading to obesity.

my very easy mnemonic just sums up nine planets

Where To

bluewolf wrote: »

my very easy mnemonic just sums up nine planets

Are you not going to share it with us?



















:pac:

Where To

Where To wrote: »

Are you not going to share it with us?

It hasn't been 3 months yet! :pac:

mfceiling

Count yourself lucky OP...

My child came home from school today after being told about a dude called jesus, who's father made the earth in 6 days. Good thing is she only has another 7 years of listening to this for at least 2-3 hours a week.

sbsquarepants

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Well if you go by the rule that the first name applies then the big monster is Gojira

I just don't know what to believe anymore

Boombastic

mfceiling wrote: »

Count yourself lucky OP...

My child came home from school today after being told about a dude called jesus, who's father made the earth in 6 days. Good thing is she only has another 7 years of listening to this for at least 2-3 hours a week.

It was your choice to send them to a catholic school

syklops

Boombastic wrote: »

It was your choice to send them to a catholic school

Is there an abundance on non-religious schools that I don't know about?

Boombastic

syklops wrote: »

Is there an abundance on non-religious schools that I don't know about?

Educate together, if there is none in your area, why not set one one up-that is if you do not want your child learning crap about Jesus, but if you got them baptised then you can't complain about the school teaching them religion as you subscribed to it



* not you personally but in general



Or withdraw your child from religion, they do it with Irish

teaching incorrect science is different than teaching religion

crazy cabbage

OP

Im in college and there are still teaching us things that are 100% wrong and shown to be wrong but they still teach it us anway :rolleyes:

For example current flows from positive to negative. We are always thought that no matter what level of education your at.
What is current?
Current is the flow of electrons
Electrons flow from negative to positive



So basicly becouse of mistakes made 100's of years ago before the elctron was even discovered all of siecince and engineering still assumes that current flows from + to -
And no one is willing to change it although everyone knows that it is wrong...

Mal-Adjusted

crazy cabbage wrote: »

For example current flows from positive to negative. We are always thought that no matter what level of education your at.
What is current?
Current is the flow of electrons
Electrons flow from negative to positive



So basicly becouse of mistakes made 100's of years ago before the elctron was even discovered all of siecince and engineering still assumes that current flows from + to -
And no one is willing to change it although everyone knows that it is wrong...

That bugged me too. they teach us that electrons flow from negative to positive, but when we do any diagrams of it, they tell us to to show them going from positive to negative.
wtf?

Capt'n Midnight

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

That bugged me too. they teach us that electrons flow from negative to positive, but when we do any diagrams of it, they tell us to to show them going from positive to negative.
wtf?

It's OK

later on you'll learn about holes , they go from positive to negative but move a lot slower than electrons