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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 02:08 PM Mar 2014

How to quiet a rowdy classroom....

According to a post on French website DansTonChat, a math teacher threatened his students with Games of Thrones spoilers if they did not start behaving.
The teacher thought of the punishment after he asked how many of his 70 students watched the popular HBO show and nearly 75 percent raised their hands.

“Well, I’ve read all the books,” he told the class, according to a rough translation. “If there is too much noise, I will write the names of the dead on the board. They are enough to fill the whole year, and I can even describe how they die.”

There was some giggling, so the unnamed teacher proceeded to list the names of the characters who died in season three of the show.

The student who posted about the situation wrote that there was a “religious silence” after the teacher wrote the names on the board and referred to the teacher as a “genius.”




Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/03/24/Math-teacher-threatens-rowdy-students-with-Game-of-Thrones-spoilers/8201395682325/#ixzz2xHXwptxk

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How to quiet a rowdy classroom.... (Original Post) sufrommich Mar 2014 OP
Hit 'em where they live pscot Mar 2014 #1
Read this last week and lol'd Tsiyu Mar 2014 #2
I hope it's real.It's such a funny,creative way sufrommich Mar 2014 #4
what do you think would work in this DU classroom? Whisp Mar 2014 #6
lol Steve Martines Mar 2014 #3
o this is great, thanks so much for posting! Whisp Mar 2014 #5

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
2. Read this last week and lol'd
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 02:11 PM
Mar 2014

Whatever it takes, kids...

Heard a math teacher in the states did the same thing with Walking Dead

Not sure of the veracity of that one, but it does seem an effective strategy.

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