# The dumbest thing(s) your teacher/employer has ever done

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 6, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-thing-s-your-teacher-employer-has-ever-done/243900 "2004-05-06T19:26:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-thing-s-your-teacher-employer-has-ever-done/243900/61 "2004-05-15T03:52:50Z")

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[Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=stadium&x=12&y=12) says either stadia or stadiums would be acceptable.

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**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-thing-s-your-teacher-employer-has-ever-done/243900/62 "2004-05-16T03:18:06Z")

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Work:  
Gave a $3000 credit line and a book of checks to anyone who signed up on the website.

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**Author:** ![emacularius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@emacularius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacularius)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-thing-s-your-teacher-employer-has-ever-done/243900/63 "2004-05-16T04:03:04Z")

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I had college English II professor who had us watching various documentaries on the Jewish Holocaust of WWII. When we weren’t doing that we were reading articles & stories about the Holocaust, or in the library looking for books on the Holocaust. Then he would have us do essays and finally, a research paper on…you guessed it…the Holocaust! He didn’t bother to teach us _HOW_ to properly do an essay or research paper, mind you.

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**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-thing-s-your-teacher-employer-has-ever-done/243900/64 "2004-05-18T20:18:30Z")

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Today was a fun day in history class- our permanent sub was attempting to review with us for the Standards of Learning tests (which are stupid in and of themselves, but that’s a different story). Two of the things we talked about where the Alien and Sedation (as opposed to sedition) Acts and the colonialization of America.

I swear, sometimes that woman just makes me want to go bang my head against the wall. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dumbest-thing-s-your-teacher-employer-has-ever-done/243900/65 "2004-05-18T20:56:47Z")

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> [@monica](#):
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> Two of the things we talked about where the Alien and **Sedation** (as opposed to sedition) Acts and the colonialization of America.

She was talking about America’s policies regarding the Indians.

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