Loudoun Co. Virginia, teacher under fire for having high schoolers handle cotton during history lesson

[1srelluc]

History in American schools? Judging by the crowd on here, I didn't think that existed cos American's knowledge of history in general is nonexistent.

Bugger-off subject.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

If the teacher was telling students that removing cotton bolls from stems is picking cotton the teacher needs a remedial history class.

Removing bolls (they are not cotton balls) is PULLING COTTON. Picking cotton is removing the tiny seeds. The cotton gin mechanized cotton picking by quickly separating the fibers and removing the seeds.

Are you out of your cotton-picking mind?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Are you out of your cotton-picking mind?

Evidently, I might be the only one who knows what cotton picking is.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Evidently, I might be the only one who knows what cotton picking is.

Apparently, you are and that is why you are incorrect! When someone says picking cotton, they mean removing the bolls from the plant in the field. The cotton gin existed in the late 1700s, so slaves were not removing the seeds when they "picked" cotton.

Here's a video about picking cotton:


I went to school in Alabama.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Apparently, you are and that is why you are incorrect! When someone says picking cotton, they mean removing the bolls from the plant in the field. The cotton gin existed in the late 1700s, so slaves were not removing the seeds when they "picked" cotton.

Here's a video about picking cotton:


I went to school in Alabama.

Sorry your education was deficient.

So maybe I never really picked cotton

You’ve gotta be a certain age to have dragged a cotton sack. I’m that age.

www.timesrecordnews.com

My grandma was from a slave owning, cotton growing family.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Sorry your education was deficient.

So maybe I never really picked cotton

You’ve gotta be a certain age to have dragged a cotton sack. I’m that age.

www.timesrecordnews.com

My grandma was from a slave owning, cotton growing family.

My education is deficient, but I just proved you wrong. How is that?

Maybe you should google "picking cotton".

 

[EvilCat Breath]

My education is deficient, but I just proved you wrong. How is that?

You never proved me wrong, except in your own opinion.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You never proved me wrong, except in your own opinion.

So the man in the video about picking cotton wasn't picking cotton? Just google it for fucks sake!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

So the man in the video about picking cotton wasn't picking cotton? Just google it for fucks sake!

I did. You should too. Removing the cotton bolls from the stems is pulling cotton. It's not picking, like picking flowers. Picking cotton is separating the fiber.

With the modern practice of dumbing down language to satisfy the lowest common denominator picking cotton would be the equivalent of picking strawberries . It's just not correct.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I did. You should too. Removing the cotton bolls from the stems is pulling cotton. It's not picking, like picking flowers. Picking cotton is separating the fiber.

With the modern practice of dumbing down language to satisfy the lowest common denominator picking cotton would be the equivalent of picking strawberries . It's just not correct.

I sued the phrase about your cotton-picking mind to illustrate just how stupid you are. It has always been that way for me, and I am 64 years young. It was also that way when I got my history degree from a university in the middle of the cotton belt. When I lived in Montgomery, my next-door neighbor was a cotton broker who owned two Rolls-Royce cars. he was building his new mansion and needed a place to live temporarily.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I sued the phrase about your cotton-picking mind to illustrate just how stupid you are. It has always been that way for me, and I am 64 years young. It was also that way when I got my history degree from a university in the middle of the cotton belt. When I lived in Montgomery, my next-door neighbor was a cotton broker who owned two Rolls-Royce cars. he was building his new. mansion and needed a place to live temporarily.

Cool story. You are still wrong. But that's okay. You have lived 64 years thinking that picking cotton is harvesting cotton. It hasn't hurt you at all.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Evidently, I might be the only one who knows what cotton picking is.

The pullout of cotton from cotton plant balls by hand or by the mechanical method is called the picking of cotton

Harvesting/picking of cotton

Harvesting/picking of cotton is carried out in autumn when it fully matures after approximately 160 days after being planted. Once the ball bursts the former will be able to pick. Cotton harvesting has gone through massive changes in the past 100 years thanks to technology, from handpicking to...

textilesschool.com

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Cool story. You are still wrong. But that's okay. You have lived 64 years thinking that picking cotton is harvesting cotton. It hasn't hurt you at all.

Doubling down on stupid is not a good thing. Everyone knows you are wrong, but you continue to fight the bad fight. Really dumb.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Doubling down on stupid is not a good thing.

Then you should stop. It's not a good look for you.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Cool story. You are still wrong. But that's okay. You have lived 64 years thinking that picking cotton is harvesting cotton. It hasn't hurt you at all.

Harvesting is the act of collecting. Be it wheat, barley, cotton etc.. When you harvest cotton, you pick it.

To harvest wheat, you can either pick the wheat by hand or use machinery called a combine.

You are getting confused and trying to nit pick over words. Why you act like that, God knows

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Harvesting is the act of collecting. Be it wheat, barley, cotton etc.. When you harvest cotton, you pick it.

To harvest wheat, you can either pick the wheat by hand or use machinery called a combine.

You are getting confused and trying to nit pick over words. Why you act like that, God knows

What was it called when the cotton fibers were separated and the seeds "picked" out?

The teacher in this class needs to have a remedial class herself.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

What was it called when the cotton fibers were separated and the seeds "picked" out?

The teacher in this class needs to have a remedial class herself.

It's called ginning the cotton. Eli Whitney invented a machine to do that in the 1790s. You are the one needing an education because you apparently cannot even read.

When I was a kid, we "stripped" tobacco stalks by removing the leaves after they were dried. We didn't take its clothes off. Before that, it had been cut, spiked and stacked. No picking was involved at any time.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

It's called ginning the cotton. Eli Whitney invented a machine to do that in the 1790s. You are the one needing an education because you apparently cannot even read.

When I was a kid, we "stripped" tobacco stalks by removing the leaves after they were dried. We didn't take its clothes off. Before that, it had been cut, spiked and stacked. No picking was involved at any time.

Before there was a cotton gin? You know it was done be hand. What was that process called?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Reading the article, it wasn't the teacher, the cotton, or the less. Evidently some kids acted up.

In a letter sent to parents Friday, Principal Doug Anderson said “lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,” adding “some students in the class may have used the situation as a way to act in an insensitive manner.”

Edit: Dad picked cotton at 8.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Before there was a cotton gin? You know it was done be hand. What was that process called?

Why are you so wrapped up in the fact that you made a stupid statement and now won't admit you were and continue to be wrong?