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All the conservative ones go to teach in the south.
Source: grew up being taught history in the south, including that the civil war wasn’t over slavery.
Ahh, so they didn't study history
With cuts to funding and training, few teachers in the south actually studied the subjects they teach. Or education for that matter.
My source is that I pulled it out of my ass based on shit I read online, though.
My AP chemistry teacher (in suburban Atlanta) had a doctorate... in divinity or some shit like that, not chemistry. Pretty sure she still got the extra salary they gave to teachers with Ph.D's, though.
She wasn't actually bad at the subject matter, though, but her "classroom manner" wasn't the best. My most vivid memory of her was her yelling "whaddya, stupid?!" in a thick Boston (or NYC?) accent at a student who answered a question particularly egregiously wrong.
I recall a junior high school science teacher in suburban Houston telling us that if you sneeze three times and nobody blesses you, the devil takes your soul. I guess it could have been tongue-in-cheek; it's been a long time. But, having never heard it before, it always struck me as a strange thing for a science teacher to say.
Yes, it sounds correct to me.
I'll say "Bless you" twice. After that, you can fucking go to hell.
I’m in the south. My history teachers were actually track coaches, football coaches, gym teachers. One of my literature teachers was a wrestling coach.
In the south, teachers have second jobs as teachers.
OP already said they were conservative
The civil war was about who was supposed to govern the area. It was very slow burning, but the snapphanar was more like a militia than ordinary bandits. Now they probably would be classified as terrorists. Ive never heard anyone say it was about slavery, afaik there where no conflict between the south, the swedes nor the danes about slavery.
Or did you mean another civil war?
C'mon, don't be obtuse. You know full well that they're referring to The Third Servile War of the Roman Republic, 73-71 BCE, led by Spartacus.
Ooo that was my favorite
Congrats on managing to figure it out by the end 👍
can confirm. i graduated in the late aughts and was taught (by my ap us history teacher no less) that the civil war was absolutely not about slavery. He did the whole ‘it was about state’s rights!!’ thing.
Yup. (Formerly) Southern professor. Some of them infect the college level with their bullshit.
They were kind of right.
I grew up in Texas and was taught the American Civil War was over slavery, and my husband grew up in Iowa and was taught that war was over state's rights. This was thirty years ago, but at least then the narrative split didn't have any neat north/south distribution.