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Two Times Six Is Ten

Two times six is ten? This is an angry adult voice. I do not recognize it. The third grade class is silent. Most of their eyes are popped open. I smell fear as I enter the room. It is the teacher, and she is angry. Using a voice I have never heard. “TWO TIMES SIX IS TEN?” she repeats. I slide into a corner, watching. The victim child slowly nods his head. He knows that two times five is ten, I say. The teacher whirls around, surprised. She throws up her hands. The entire class bursts out laughing, relieved. The tension is temporarily disbursed. This teacher has terrified her entire class today. Victimizing them all; I doubt that they will totally recover. And I wonder if she has any idea what she has done?

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Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 9/28/2021 4:20:00 PM

Hello Caren, 2x6=10! I think the teacher lost it when she yelled. Her students will not trust her because they will fear her. Hugs.

L Milton Hankins

Date: 9/27/2021 10:13:00 AM

Of course, she doesn't. Do bullies really know what they are doing? Or, is it only a matter of satisfying one's own ego. God, I despise teachers like this!!!! That kid could be a budding physicist and mathematician for all she knows and twenty years from now he may prove to her that TWO TIMES SIX IS TEN, depending upon how you look at it!!! I often tease kids with the old "You have eleven fingers" joke, and I can prove it to them!!!! Then, I show them the fallacy of it.

L Milton Hankins
Date: 9/27/2021 2:13:00 PM

Well, in my opinion, she has taught 29 years too long!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/27/2021 10:48:00 AM

Sadly, she thought she was an excellent teacher and taught over thirty years.