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Originally Posted by RDaneel54
She was teaching you to think for yourself, but be quiet about it. 
Seriously, you were pretty gutsy. |
Respectfully expressing a differing opinion is gutsy? Well, thank goodness I have a ton of gutsy students, then. Dissent is the root of some of the best discussions in my class, whether it's genuine difference of opinion or dissent out of misunderstanding.
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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
I'd say any teacher who doesn't try to refute an intelligent argument with an intelligent deserves no respect.
Instead of engaging with you, she shot you down by a vote. She deserved a whole lot less respect than you showed her.
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Yeah, the vote kills me (as does her statement that she thinks that zero of her students completed the assigned reading). I may look for agreement/disagreement by a show of hands just to see who's on what side so that I can call on students and lead a discussion. My (college educated as opposed to middle-school educated) view normally wins out, of course, but by then it's no longer "my" view. Nonetheless, more than zero conversations have ended up without being fully settled. And that's ok, so long as everyone has the ability to reasonably defend his/her argument.