Ways to talk to teachers inteligently

[Super Max61]

Today during science I had a real slump to my walk as we did a pointless exercise-walking around the classroom, rolling dice, and pretending to be water. Pointless. So I asked what the point of this was and I was fed bullshit. I shut up. After the class our teacher asked where we ended up I muttered "In my head, spacing out." She heard it and asked me to go out into the hall. She then talked to me about how I am a roll model and I should not lead my class like that. (my class? wtf?) She also asked me if I thought I was above this.

I then replied saying that the activity had no point and posed no challenge. I then said that I was forced to go to this school so I obviously wouldn't like it. We then had a stare where she looked at me like "God damn it he's smart......but....." and my look was "We don't see eye to eye, ima go."

This teacher is one of the few teachers i am interested in preserving a relationship with, so I was wondering what you guys thought about this. I was thinking about telling her that the way she didn't talk down to me was really nice or something like that.

This is a thread about responding in a smart matter if a teacher asks a loaded question or stuff like that. Feel free to ask questions.

Sorry for any typos.

[jdecolt]

I have been in nearly the exact same situation several times, as most of the teachers at my school are pretty nice people, if a bit sheeple-ish at times I usually try to present my point in the least offensive way possable, and then if they still seem offended, i have come in after class to tell them that if i offeneded them i didnt mean to and then that i appreciate that they didnt talk down to me ect. ect. They really appreciate it. After all, teachers are people too and dont like having you upset with them anymore thenyou like thinking they are upset with you. Unless you have the sadistic type, and in that case, who cares. hope this helps

[flann]

One problem - their ignorance is too great