>> ^Mikus_Aurelius:

Going along with students' jokes is a double edged sword. It's nice to have students who like you and cheer for you. Sometimes that "respect" comes at the expense of the kind of respect that makes them do their work in your class or obey your instructions in an emergency. There doesn't always have to be a tradeoff, but I've also never seen a correlation between the two.
>> ^spoco2:
And that's how you earn students' respect.


But a good teacher doesn't "make" the students do their work...a good teacher inspires students to investigate by their own choice.

Going along with students' jokes is a double edged sword. It's nice to have students who like you and cheer for you. Sometimes that "respect" comes at the expense of the kind of respect that makes them do their work in your class or obey your instructions in an emergency. There doesn't always have to be a tradeoff, but I've also never seen a correlation between the two.

>> ^spoco2:

And that's how you earn students' respect.

>> ^Payback:

Some people show up for school to receive a paycheque. Some people are teachers.


Golden comment, I need to remember this one!

Oh, and *happy *education

Saw MIB3 this weekend on impulse. It was okay, wouldn't necessarily recommend it unless you want a seriously breezy and disposable movie. Definitely better than the 2nd one, which is not hard to do. If they make another one they need to open up the scale a bit. This movie's budget (admittedly with marketing) is reported at $250 million. That is insane. There are only two real money sequences: a chase to end act 2 that looks like the Obi-Wan and Darth Grievous chase in episode III, and the climax which takes place at the launch of the moon mission at Cape Canaveral in 1969 and looks a lot like Apollo 13.

This movie has some really dumb and small-scale choices. Smith's character is equipped with a device that requires him to plunge from a height in order to gain enough speed to "time-jump". The movie climaxes with Smith literally standing on top of the saturn rocket lifting off for the first manned moon landing. You'd think they'd have a money shot with Smith jumping off the rocket as it lifts off. Those things went pretty slow to start, you could survive the first 30 seconds it takes to get up to any kind of speed, and then jump off for an awesome looking stunt. Or, hell, if I were writing the movie, have him just stay on the rocket until it reaches the necessary ascent speed (something like 100 MPH or some shit.. I remember thinking it didn't sound far from 88MPH), which wouldn't take long after the rockets fire. Then Smith is transported into the future thousands of feet in the air and you have a post-climax gag where he's falling apparently to his death only to have Jones' character sweep in at the last second and save him in a flying car or flying alien bubble pod more likely. Smith's character would be like "How in DA HELL you know I was gonna falling through the air over Florida man!?!?" and Jones' character would put up the video feed that only MIB had access to of Smith riding the rocket and disappearing from 1969's POV. "We had a lot of eyes on that mission" or some shit. Do I have to write this crap for you Hollywood? It flies out of my butthole effortlessly. Instead Smith's character jumps into an evacuation basket and rides it down a zip-line... and this is not even filmed in an interesting way. A whole lot of this movie looked sort of non-commital, like 2nd unit did the whole thing.

They added a "poignant twist" to the time travel aspect which is the same problem with so many movie series these days... Star Wars, Star Trek, Spider-Man.. in a sequel, everything is revealed to have been previously connected.. connected from the start in fact! Oh yawn... more than 30 years later people are still trying to re-create the "I am your father" buzz from Empire Strikes Back. Always at the expense of cheapening the overall franchise and sapping meaning from the actions the characters took in preceeding films. What's worse, they layered on some spiritual/karmic hokum to support another cliche forced by executive interference.

It's crazy to think the first movie turns 15 years old this year. I thought it would be an eternal classic, but the last time I watched it, which might actually have been when MIB2 was coming out a whole ten years ago, it did not hold up.

Alright, the problem with this approach is that he's giving the conclusions, but not helping on 'HOW' to get to the desired goals.

It's easy to just say 'don't listen to any one, dress the way you want', but for a teenager this is extremely difficult to carry out. They are afraid of being judged and alienated by their peers. You could tell them, 'Oh, don't bend to peer pressure'. But they DO get affected by them because they are, after all, teenagers. They are not as experienced or as mentally stout. That's why they need our help and advice in the first place.

It would be more useful for the teenager if you could give specific examples to help them cope with their situation, such as 'Be absolute about your stance and opinion to others', and 'Never let them have one over you. Strike back! Then at least they will leave you alone.' You know, advice which explains the general rules of the school yard and how to protect yourself from it. That's what these kids need most, not some moral assessment of the whole situation.

So good effort, but no bacon. Then again he's not a professional guidance counselor or anything so.... meh.

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