Birds in a tree

May 15, 2008 at 1:44 PM
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If you asked a four year old kid this question for their entrance test into school.

There are five birds in a tree, a farmer shoots one of them dead, how many birds are left in the tree ?

What would be your immediate answer ?

Well when the kid answers "none because they flew away scared from the sound of the gunshot.", you would applaud them for thinking outside the box. Instead the teacher's reaction was to berate the child, stating they were wrong and the insisting the answer was four. People like that should not become teachers !

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Dude... telling a 4-year old about shooting a bird is just WRONG... LOL

I never thought of it that way. Your right we shouldn't be talking about violence to children. I guess I am already de sensitised to it.

I disagree u should teach children from a young age that violence is a part of a life especially with kids carrying knives to school etc. A 39 year old man was stabbed to death less than a mile from where I live last week in broad daylight for no apparent reason. How are we supposed to explain that to our children if they ask us what happened?
As for your story, when I was a about 4 or 5 in nursery the teacher wanted us to paint a butterfly by dotting the one side of the paper and folding it in half to create an identical print on the other side of the paper, i remember trying to paint a butterfly instead of dotting the paper, the teacher told me what I was doing was wrong and she made me do it again (twice)

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