Is this teacher going to far?

[GSQUARED]

The problem is that when the classroom part of the the project is over the ramifacations still linger.

[Darth Biscuit]

High School or College? If High School, then too far... if College... it's research.

[mmmbeans]

The problem is that when the classroom part of the the project is over the ramifacations still linger.

sounds like a good learning experience.

i dunno dude, you're asking for an emotional reaction to something that nobody actually knows anything about. Too far is relative... what's being learned?

[GritsRgreat]

While that seems like a great idea for the class, what about all the emotinal turmoil it causes people not in the class.

A bit too much IMO

Yeah like all the dudes she's been with freaking out about being the daddy.

[mmmbeans]

do the students feel like it's going to far?

all i ever wanted in school was interesting projects and teachers... whenever i was given them they were without fail retracted or fired because some f*cking parent didn't want their little snowflake damaged by actual challenge.

[GSQUARED]

High School

[GSQUARED]

sounds like a good learning experience.

i dunno dude, you're asking for an emotional reaction to something that nobody actually knows anything about. Too far is relative... what's being learned?

I don't care what your emotional reaction is, just your opinon on a subject.

[mmmbeans]

I don't care what your emotional reaction is, just your opinon on a subject.

i can't have a real opinion on it... i don't have any actual information.

[GSQUARED]

What I stated originally actually happend.

[Epistaxis]

We are dealing with minors here, therefore a protected study population.

No way that model passes an IRB at the college or grad school level.

Is it interesting?

Sure.

Would much be learned?

Probably.

Doesn't matter, ultimately it is the job of the researcher to protect his test subjects from harm directly related to the study.

So the fact that this teacher is using minor high school students to research is unethical, and the methodology is suspect.

It wouldn't have made it past my desk at the grad school level, I can tell you that.

[The_Cannon]

From what you posted I think it might be a tad too far. I don't know what that's supposed to teach the students though. Even still having them broadcast it on social networks can have long lasting ramifications that poo stays out there and I could see it adversely affecting someones home life.

I knew some kids in high school whose parents were douches and and abusive and something like that could have gotten them in some serious poo.

[Inimicus]

Not sure about this for a Psyc class. Now for a Sociology class, it would make a lot more sense there.

[charlotte49er]

A friend of the family's daughter had a project for her senior AP Psych class in which she had to act as if she was pregnant for two weeks and use social media outlets to brodcast it. The wake of the project has caused a big uproar with her friends and family.

I don't think someone that young should have to subject themselves to that kind of emotional stress for a school project. If it was my kid i'd have more than a few words to say to the teacher.

Thoughts?

Actually, I don't see that much different than most Social Ed classes make the students care for a baby for 2 weeks. They are supposed to feed it, diaper it, etc. Of course, people know it's just for a class.

She couldn't tell her parents that she wasn't knocked up? That would be tough here in the Bible Belt. As narrow minded as some right wingers and fundalmentalists are, it's a miracle they didn't throw her out!

(Don't send me nasty PM's either! You know I'm right!)

[Razzy]

That is too much and doesn't really teach you much as far as future skills go. Have them design their own experiments to test a hypothesis so they learn about the scientific method and get to do a little research experience.

Psychology is kind of a pseudo-science anyways. What we know about the brain and it's relationship with the body is very limited.