Her Teacher Gave Her An F For Being Right 💀 — Transcript

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1. 0:00This dad's daughter came home crying
2. 0:01with an F because her teacher doesn't
3. 0:02know what color blood is. The first time
4. 0:04he realized something was wrong, his
5. 0:06daughter came home from school holding
6. 0:07out her arm. "Look, Dad, you can see the
7. 0:09blue blood in my veins right here." She
8. 0:10traced the blue lines under her skin
9. 0:12with her finger. He put down his coffee
10. 0:13and looked at her. "Actually,
11. 0:15sweetheart, that's not true. Blood is
12. 0:16always red because of hemoglobin. It's
13. 0:18just darker red in your veins." Her face
14. 0:20scrunched up. "But Mrs. Miller showed us
15. 0:21a whole PowerPoint about it. She even
16. 0:23had diagrams from a science book." The
17. 0:24next morning, he packed his work scrubs
18. 0:26in his bag. He's an ER nurse at Mercy
19. 0:28General and he was working the afternoon
20. 0:30shift anyway. He sent Mrs. Miller an
21. 0:31email asking if he could do a quick
22. 0:33presentation about blood for career day
23. 0:34that afternoon. She loved the idea. When
24. 0:36he arrived, Mrs. Miller introduced him
25. 0:38as his daughter's dad who works at the
26. 0:39hospital. 28 kids stared up at him from
27. 0:41their desks. "I heard you guys learned
28. 0:42that blood is blue inside your body," he
29. 0:44said. The entire class nodded
30. 0:46enthusiastically. Mrs. Miller beamed
31. 0:47from her desk in the corner. He pulled
32. 0:49out a blood collection tube from his
33. 0:50pocket and held it up. "This is what we
34. 0:52use to draw blood at the hospital.
35. 0:53Notice something? The tube creates a
36. 0:54vacuum. No oxygen inside at all." He
37. 0:57paused. "When we draw blood with these,
38. 0:58it never touches oxygen until we pop the
39. 1:00cap off." He showed them photos on his
40. 1:02phone of sealed blood tubes. "See? Still
41. 1:04red." Mrs. Miller's smile started
42. 1:05fading. She shifted in her chair and
43. 1:07cleared her throat. A boy raised his
44. 1:08hand and pointed to their science
45. 1:10textbook. "But our textbook says it's
46. 1:11blue." He picked up the book and checked
47. 1:13the publication date. 1998. "Medicine
48. 1:15updates pretty fast. We used to think
49. 1:17lots of things that turned out to be
50. 1:18wrong." Mrs. Miller suddenly stood up
51. 1:20from her desk, her hands gripping the
52. 1:22edge. "Well, thank you for that
53. 1:23interesting presentation, Mr. Johnson,
54. 1:24but we need to move on to math now." He
55. 1:26nodded and started packing when a girl
56. 1:28in the back raised her hand. "So our
57. 1:29textbook is wrong?" The class erupted in
58. 1:31whispers. Mrs. Miller's jaw clenched and
59. 1:33her voice got tight. "The curriculum
60. 1:34says" "Actually," he interrupted,
61. 1:36pulling up the state science standards
62. 1:37on his phone. He walked over and turned
63. 1:39his phone toward her. "The current
64. 1:40curriculum specifically mentions this
65. 1:42myth as something to correct." She
66. 1:43stared at the screen and her eyes
67. 1:44narrowed. Her mouth pressed into a thin
68. 1:46line and her nostrils flared. "Can I
69. 1:48speak with you in the hallway?" The kids
70. 1:49watched as they walked out and the door
71. 1:51closed behind them. "Do you have any
72. 1:52idea how hard it is when parents
73. 1:54undermine my authority?" Her face was
74. 1:55red and her voice was sharp. Now,
75. 1:57they'll question everything I say. He
76. 1:59kept his voice calm. Isn't that exactly
77. 2:01what we want them to do? Question things
78. 2:02and learn critical thinking? She crossed
79. 2:04her arms tightly. I've been teaching for
80. 2:0522 years. I'm not changing my whole
81. 2:07curriculum because some nurse thinks he
82. 2:09knows better than our textbooks. The
83. 2:10next day, he found out Mrs. Miller gave
84. 2:12the class a pop quiz. His daughter came
85. 2:13home crying, her face red and puffy. Her
86. 2:16hands were shaking as she handed him a
87. 2:17paper with a big red F on it. He took a
88. 2:19deep breath and felt his jaw tighten as
89. 2:21he looked at the question. What color is
90. 2:23blood inside the body? His daughter had
91. 2:24written red and Mrs. Miller had marked
92. 2:26it wrong. He requested a meeting with
93. 2:28Principal Davis and brought printouts of
94. 2:29medical textbooks, the state science
95. 2:31standards, and his daughter's quiz. The
96. 2:33principal called in Mrs. Miller and
97. 2:34asked her directly, is blood blue inside
98. 2:36the body? After a long pause, Mrs.
99. 2:38Miller said, it's what the children
100. 2:39understand better. He leaned forward in
101. 2:41his chair. My daughter is crying every
102. 2:43morning before school because she's
103. 2:44afraid of getting F's for writing down
104. 2:45the truth. The next day, the school
105. 2:47replaced their science books. Now,
106. 2:48whenever his daughter learns something
107. 2:50new at school, she comes home and asks
108. 2:51him, Dad, is this actually true or is it
109. 2:53just a Mrs. Miller truth?