• grue@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    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.

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      17 hours ago

      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.

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        6 hours ago

        Yes, it sounds correct to me.

        I’ll say “Bless you” twice. After that, you can fucking go to hell.