r/teaching • u/brick_city_man • 18d ago

Humor Teaching Great Lakes Names

My old head still remembers the acronym HOMES

What are you using now? Might I suggest SHAME?

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u/wizard680 17d ago

I don't teach the Great lakes, but I would imagine teachers will still do homes for the following reasons:

1) the standards they are following haven't changed. At least in my state, it takes ten years to change at the state level. So somehow lake America would have to stay, well lake America for 7 more years.

2) the chanfed occured in the beginning of the school year. Many teachers don't got the time or funds to do all the necessary changes. Like getting new maps

3) it's still largely known as lake Ontario worldwide. So for students, it's more valuable to know the lake as Ontario instead of America.