Rozanski was disciplined but was still in the classroom teaching this week, Lee said. Rozanski wrote 10 questions on the whiteboard, Lee said. The class was working on a lesson about social psychology and perceptions.
The questions could either be answered with something non-sexual like bubble gum or could be taken as a sexual innuendo, Lee said. The point of the questions was to show students how wording that a 3rd grader would find innocent, an adult would assign a sexual connotation.
Lee said there were about 30 students in the class and the parents of a few of those students complained. After school officials investigated, they determined that the questions were inappropriate. "Were there sexual innuendos? Yes," Lee said. "But it wasn't a sexual test."
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These are midly funny, but their pedagogical value is iffy, at best. I get what the teacher says he was going for, but there's no way an 8-year-old would have the vocabulary or world knowledge to come up with the "innocent" answers. And these riddles wouldn't even be riddles without the confounding effect of the double-entendre.
ReplyDeleteI could see if the teacher presented one or two of these as part of a lecture about innuendo and connotation, but giving the whole "quiz" is just lazy teaching and playing for cheap laughs.
Have to agree with cath. These 'double entendres' are about as subtle as this.
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