The Glade 4.0

/Shakes head. Why are people like this continually allowed to give people like me a bad name?

I declare at this moment I am no longer a teacher, I am going to make something up and be my own enitity. I am now henceforth a edumoseismerologist or something of that nature.

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

Better than poopsmith I guess - but what a singing voice.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

The majority of classrooms I go into have a teacher who has their **** wired so it's cool. I know you are a rockin' instructor Oonagh! I just didn't know what to do in that situation.. can't make the teacher look bad in front of his class. Ah well.

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
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Firefox does it too.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn

John Glenn's contributions to United States space exploration are sufficient that such a gaffe isn't quite as horrendous as you like to think.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I regularly correct my daughter's teachers. However, I do it tastefully and tactfully.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I guess as an amateur astronomer I was more acutely aware of the mistake. I could see maybe saying Glenn was the first man in space or first American in space but on the moon? I found it boggling.

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
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Ahh Oonagh, I like to think to you as an urban schoolmarm, yielding disapproval and detention slips with an iron fist.

I would have definitely sent my kid to your class though.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. That is a significant achievement under his belt, and it paved the way for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. It was possibly an achievement that ended his career. Afterwards, he was a national hero, and we were never going to risk his life by sending him to the moon. Otherwise, he may very well have been the man to lead that mission.

It's sort of like saying John Hancock was the first president of the United States. It's factually incorrect - John Hancock was the president of the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War - but it implies a certain historical significance to John Hancock that is true. Also, just like John Hancock and George Washington, the names John Glenn and Neil Armstrong both often arise in the same context. They are names that could easily be mixed up. It's a mistake, and one that should be pointed out and corrected, but I would offer the following two sentences for comparison:

"That's John Glenn, the first man on the moon."

"That's Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev, the first man on the moon."

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

And yet, you sent him up on the shuttle Discovery 36 years later...

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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True, but by then he was a congressman, old, and if he had died he would have been a national hero all over again.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

I am aware of his achievements. I will still hold teachers in my childrens school district to a higher standard.

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
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