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I was wondering the same thing wrt the Bond girl. Perhaps he wanted to create a "teachable moment"? If so, and the result was as positive as he claims, then I'm
by aptwebapps 13y ago
I was wondering the same thing wrt the Bond girl. Perhaps he wanted to create a "teachable moment"? If so, and the result was as positive as he claims, then I'm fine with it.
Edit: Also, you say it isn't so black and white but the point of it is not that somewhere, some boys were bad (SHOCKING), but that he got a good reception to his response.
- quesera 13y agoDon't kid yourself. There are no "teachable moments" in all-boy high schools. Just varying degrees of perceived ridiculousness as performed by adults. I feel certain that the situation was manufactured, possibly even intentionally, but if it was manufactured "for the good of the children", I would assert that this guy doesn't know anything about much.
- aptwebapps 13y agoFrom ColinWright's comment [1] upthread, it doesn't seem like it was manufactured. But even if it was, the point of the article did not seem to be that, look, horrors, boys were acting out. That's utterly unremarkable. It was that they (or the audience as a whole) responded well to his lecture at the end. He seems to think this is a new phenomenon. 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6833804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6833804