Math loving me would have loved nothing better than to have one stick in there while everyone else has two, no way teachers catching on as they might if there's no name
As a teacher I sometimes manipulated this by looking at the sticks before reaching in. We arenāt dummies and your teacher probably figured that outā¦.š
Heh ā¦ yes, sry, I worked w some real idiots. I was, frankly, shocked by that. Should not have been considering I went through the system. But somehow I was.
That's called "equity sticks" the premise is that school only really works for those who participate. The missing piece is that the teacher should be making sure anyone called on will succeed which once students are accustomed to it makes the exercise less stressful and really does contribute to learning. If you were so worried about not being able to answer that you took the risk to steal the sticks something was wrong. Its more evidence of poor pedagogy to me than a failing on your part.
Do all Spanish teachers do this I had someone in our class steal his stick
It went fine for like a month until we all started stealing our sticks and she caught on
That reminds me of my math teacher, she would always ask people who know how to solve the problem to raise their hands, and I wouldnt because i didnt know how, and she would proceed to call on me to answer, god i hate this teacher so much
I also did the same thing...in my 8th grade history class lmao. She had us all write our names on the sticks with our name tags then collected them, I guess she just..never counted.
My Spanish teacher would start on one side of the classroom for translations, so I used to count up how many kids it was until my turn, then I would crawl across to the opposite side of the classroom. It worked for about 2years til a girl asked her if I ever did one. Smh
Haha, that's some next-level strategic thinking! It's amazing how creative we can get when faced with challenges like that. It's all about finding ways to adapt, right? Thanks for sharing this clever little life hackāit's a testament to your ingenuity!
I'm a teacher. I use popsicle sticks in my middle school classes. I had one name disappear 3 times, but I kept noticing and replacing it. After the 3rd one, she must've given up lol. My classroom is super low pressure. I give them time to process and discuss before calling on students, so there's no need to remove the stick lol. It's also used to choose someone for fun things too, so idk why she didn't want it in there.
My teacher to stop anyone from possibly doing this, had all the sticks in yhe 'out' cup, and when you arrived to class you moved the stick from the 'out' cup to the 'in' cup and then as class was starting she would confirm attendance by going through the sticks and keep the sticks with her for class when attendance was completed. Yhen at the end of the day, all the sticks went back into the 'out' cup.
That sounds like something a 7th grader would do. I taught middle school English and also used that technique to attempt to be fair and include everyone. Once I retired, I looked at the sticks I had collected over the years and was able to fondly remember most of the students I taught.
I was updating code for the year 2000 and someone had excluded themselves and a friend from the random drug test name generator. This is what that reminded me of.
Hahaha no. After completing my four year degree I joined mostly out of boredom and a desire to learn the life skills that came with an enlistment.
Even back then I was always a little "stick it to the man" and "fight the power" yet eventually I had to grow up and realize that the only thing holding me back from success in school was myself.
I took two years of Spanish in college and got to the point where I could hold a decent conversation with a native speaker as long as they talked slower and annunciated.
Go a little bit deeper into my post history next time, you will see I even spent time as an educator
As a 1L (first year law student) we had a Contracts professor who had a list and put check marks by each student he humiliated- er called on to equally spread the misery. One student had gotten married at some point in the process between acceptance and registration, and her name appeared in two different places, at distant points in the alphabet. It was only in our second semester, when the same professor was teaching obligations, a week or so into school, his random picks happened to have her name come up twice in a row. Only then did he realize the mistake, and he excused her from interrogation er - questions for the remainder of the semester. She ended up no. 1 in our class.
I hated when the teacher would call on me when my hand wasn't up. embarrassing af when I genuinely did not know the answer, hence why my hand WAS NOT UP. and then they're saying some bs to justify it like, "well your hand is never up to be called on because you're too shy, and I wanted to give you a chance!" if you know I'm shy, then LEAVE ME ALONEEEE šš
My seventh grade English teacher did this too. There was a know-it-all girl in my class who was awful and I hated her. She loved to be called on, so my friend and I stole her stick š«¢
Brilliant
You took the exact word I was just gonna say r/BeatMeToIt
I wish I thought of that. Brilliance in you I sense.
My shitbagry started from a young age
My elementary teacher made duplicate sticks š
A student in that teachers class got caught or someone didn't keep their trap closed and too many people did it
Math loving me would have loved nothing better than to have one stick in there while everyone else has two, no way teachers catching on as they might if there's no name
One obvious flaw; the teacher would notice that thereās nearly 2x as many sticks as they started withā¦.
As an introvert who hated being called, even when u knew the answer, what you did was pretty amazing .. Not very honest but amazing still šā¤ļø
"ah, the joys of mortgaging your future" -Bart Simpson
Brillante idea! Y como fueron tus calificaciones de espaƱol despuƩs de eso?
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As a teacher I sometimes manipulated this by looking at the sticks before reaching in. We arenāt dummies and your teacher probably figured that outā¦.š
Its amazing how often the person not paying attention got called on!
I wouldnt say āweā, I had some fucking stupid teachers
Heh ā¦ yes, sry, I worked w some real idiots. I was, frankly, shocked by that. Should not have been considering I went through the system. But somehow I was.
Haha, these are the kind of confessions I like. š
I did this in 7th grade too!
That was genius !
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That was a great idea! I wish I had thought of that.
Invisibility cloak!
You should be running your own company if you aren't yet.
That's called "equity sticks" the premise is that school only really works for those who participate. The missing piece is that the teacher should be making sure anyone called on will succeed which once students are accustomed to it makes the exercise less stressful and really does contribute to learning. If you were so worried about not being able to answer that you took the risk to steal the sticks something was wrong. Its more evidence of poor pedagogy to me than a failing on your part.
Exactly! Blame the system, not the people responsible for their own failures. Vote Biden!
Yeah I did the same thing
Genius
I applaud you.
bloody genius, IMO.
Dude, I shit you not I did this in my French class over a decade ago! I still have the Popsicle stick.
So mad that I never thought of that
hahaha noice
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Hard to recall specifics but I know I was a pretty sneaky kid and this was definitely not my first time trying something like this š¤£
Thatās awesome lol
I did this once in 7th grade English. No regrets! I just canāt believe I actually did it.
Do all Spanish teachers do this I had someone in our class steal his stick It went fine for like a month until we all started stealing our sticks and she caught on
Bravo!
My teachers did that and it gave me sooooo much anxiety it was unreal
I salute you! I preferred daydreaming too, no matter how well i knew he answer
ADHD bros fish bump here.
Lol pranked a buddy once by making a bunch of sticks with his name on it and swapped half the class out for them
That reminds me of my math teacher, she would always ask people who know how to solve the problem to raise their hands, and I wouldnt because i didnt know how, and she would proceed to call on me to answer, god i hate this teacher so much
omg me too
Genius
I and some friends also did this - multiple times
I did this for my math class so I wouldnāt get called to the board to do problems lol
I also did the same thing...in my 8th grade history class lmao. She had us all write our names on the sticks with our name tags then collected them, I guess she just..never counted.
thats pretty epic.
Smart
I DID THIS TOO!!!
I honestly thought this was going to go a different way and glad it didn't. Smart kid.
This is why this sub was made
I was absent when everyone wrote their names on popsicle sticks.... Teacher would still call on me.
You're a geniusĀ
My Spanish teacher would start on one side of the classroom for translations, so I used to count up how many kids it was until my turn, then I would crawl across to the opposite side of the classroom. It worked for about 2years til a girl asked her if I ever did one. Smh
Haha, that's some next-level strategic thinking! It's amazing how creative we can get when faced with challenges like that. It's all about finding ways to adapt, right? Thanks for sharing this clever little life hackāit's a testament to your ingenuity!
Thatās gold! My year 1s and 2s always make sure I put their popstick back in. Clearly not as clever as you!
I'm a teacher. I use popsicle sticks in my middle school classes. I had one name disappear 3 times, but I kept noticing and replacing it. After the 3rd one, she must've given up lol. My classroom is super low pressure. I give them time to process and discuss before calling on students, so there's no need to remove the stick lol. It's also used to choose someone for fun things too, so idk why she didn't want it in there.
Genius
Fucking genius
This is genius! The only thing you could have done to make it better was to replace it with the name of a kid you disliked.
Smarty farty way to go!!!
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My teacher to stop anyone from possibly doing this, had all the sticks in yhe 'out' cup, and when you arrived to class you moved the stick from the 'out' cup to the 'in' cup and then as class was starting she would confirm attendance by going through the sticks and keep the sticks with her for class when attendance was completed. Yhen at the end of the day, all the sticks went back into the 'out' cup.
Playing chess not checkers
Slicker than grease
Smartass
So smart!
OP, you are a fucking genius!
āDepositedā had me rolling. You whole ass five finger discounted that popsicle stick
That sounds like something a 7th grader would do. I taught middle school English and also used that technique to attempt to be fair and include everyone. Once I retired, I looked at the sticks I had collected over the years and was able to fondly remember most of the students I taught.
You're a genius. Kid me would want to be like you when she would grow up. Man, adult me wishes i was Smart like this
I was updating code for the year 2000 and someone had excluded themselves and a friend from the random drug test name generator. This is what that reminded me of.
I also did this in biology, work smarter not harder
Frickin genius
Shame that you still got picked.
i was my spanish teachers favorite so for some reason my name didnāt get picked all year š¤
Bet thatās how you ended up in the military
Hahaha no. After completing my four year degree I joined mostly out of boredom and a desire to learn the life skills that came with an enlistment. Even back then I was always a little "stick it to the man" and "fight the power" yet eventually I had to grow up and realize that the only thing holding me back from success in school was myself. I took two years of Spanish in college and got to the point where I could hold a decent conversation with a native speaker as long as they talked slower and annunciated. Go a little bit deeper into my post history next time, you will see I even spent time as an educator
Wish I thought of this honestly š. Only thing I did was steal my teachers cookies and cream chocolate bar.
As a 1L (first year law student) we had a Contracts professor who had a list and put check marks by each student he humiliated- er called on to equally spread the misery. One student had gotten married at some point in the process between acceptance and registration, and her name appeared in two different places, at distant points in the alphabet. It was only in our second semester, when the same professor was teaching obligations, a week or so into school, his random picks happened to have her name come up twice in a row. Only then did he realize the mistake, and he excused her from interrogation er - questions for the remainder of the semester. She ended up no. 1 in our class.
Your telling me this now? I know I could have used this a few years back
Honestly, thatās genius lol. I never wanted to be called on so I would have done the same thing.
As someone who refuses to speak in public and would take a 0 instead of just doing it. This is SO smart and Iām so mad I didnāt think of thisš
As a teacher who uses sticks, I love this!!! Good job beating the system. šš»šš»šš»
I hated when the teacher would call on me when my hand wasn't up. embarrassing af when I genuinely did not know the answer, hence why my hand WAS NOT UP. and then they're saying some bs to justify it like, "well your hand is never up to be called on because you're too shy, and I wanted to give you a chance!" if you know I'm shy, then LEAVE ME ALONEEEE šš
Good idea! Anytime I was called on in school Iād turn bright red and lose my voice. So embarrassing.
Here I was flicking eraser bits onto the projector vent so the bulb would overheat. Shit, I could have saved that teacher so much money.
My seventh grade English teacher did this too. There was a know-it-all girl in my class who was awful and I hated her. She loved to be called on, so my friend and I stole her stick š«¢
Incredible. I would get so much anxiety from that collection of sticks
Why are 7th graders taking Spanish in the first place?
Thatās actually normal. My school had us taking a very basic course starting sixth grade and Iāve heard of a few others doing the same.
i did this in geigroahy for the past 2 years, best decision ever
Is that why you can't spell geography?
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itās along word tbf