Rejecting fact over opinion is probably not a good trait to have, especially when working in education, but that’s unfortunately what one Missouri community college teacher is allegedly guilty of. Reddit user DerCatrix shared the results of a quiz question in their English composition class, presenting quite the conundrum. The question asked whether Global warming is a fact, to which DerCatrix answered yes. According to their teacher, this was incorrect.
Evidently baffled by the answer, DerCatrix said they emailed their teacher, thinking that she just made a mistake when creating the quiz. This wasn’t the case. “The English Comp teacher told me that she still believes Global Warming is an opinion,” DerCatrix explained, adding that she accused them of “ad hominem.”
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The teacher wasn’t done. She apparently also wrote several paragraphs giving the student a lesson about “structured debate and ‘shutting down conversation before it began’ by trying to correct her. Needless to say, DerCatrix wasn’t having it, saying, “I talked to the school and will be changing teachers.”
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