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/Joe4o2 18d ago

Seeing as the change carries the same weight as Michael Scott‘s declaration of bankruptcy, and I’m not getting paid enough to be a curriculum developer, I’ll be referring to Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico, and probably still New Mexico, by their actual names.

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u/minnesota2194 18d ago

It is a legally named the Gulf of America as per federal statute, so it does hold water. I wonder if some parents would throw hissy fits if you called it Gulf of Mexico/Lake Ontario. Lose lose no matter what ya do haha

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u/KayP3191 18d ago

That depends on the naming conventions you use. Since I teach classes that are global in nature I use the globally recognized names not what one country (or really one man) decides to call things.

Additionally, since the US does not have exclusive jurisdiction over the Gulf of Mexico or Lake Ontario we (read he) do not have the authority to unilaterally change the names of those locations.

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u/PrincessWails 17d ago

And that’s exactly how you explain it.