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6mo ago

Nobody believed in me

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My physics teacher stapled McDonalds applications to kids tests when they failed.
- This is the equivalent of “you don’t want to be like that Janitor over there” energy. Needlessly mean to a specific class or profession because they don’t see it as valued.
  
  Nobody respected the janitorial staff at my high school until they went on strike. Shit went downhill FAST.
  
  Yeah, teach sounds like a dick. A HS physics teacher doesn't even make that much more than a GM at McDicks and probably less than a McD District Manager. Sounds like the teacher should've made better career choices, maybe they'd be a physicist instead of just teaching. You know what they say: Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
  
  We don't think janitors are bad. We think it sucks to be a janitor because cleaning isn't fun.
- Damn that’s hardcore.

What?
- "Rappers are lying when they say that teachers told them they wouldn't amount to anything. They just told you to read aloud, and you got mad."
  
  Haven't we all had at least one exceptionally shitty teacher though?
  I've been in the room when Mr fucking Stephens told a kid that he'd never be an artist and to pay attention. Is little Jake an artist today? No, he's a welder, he has 4 kids, and he still loves to draw. Granted Jake never thought art was an option but I'm not sure 7th grade biology is coming up in his daily life either.
  
  "Oh, stewardess, I speak Jive."
  
  Gangsta CC lol

Some of y'all didn't grow up in the southeastern US and it shows.
Not all of the teachers in my school were unreasonable narcissistic sadists, but about half of them were.
- Did you consider going to a good school?
  Smh kids these days won't even force their parents to change school districts
  
  It's like they won't even try to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
  
  They don't let you redo in a good school. Trust me, I looked.
- Generally speaking those who haven’t encountered evil think reports of evil are exaggeration and myth.
  
  Conversely, those who have encountered evil have a tendency to overestimate how much evil there actually is.
  See also: PTSD, trust issues, control freaks. Possibly martyr syndrome/victim complex.
- Wow, have you even tried being born to a socioeconomic status that put you in a better school zone??
- Idk if that’s the right qualifier. It should be “rural”. Because when people aren’t stupid, and they live in the city, they’re gonna get shuffled into classes pretty early with all the other not stupid people. But in small towns, small classes, you’re gonna see everyone. I’ve witnessed teachers saying this to kids over and over, and it’s because we didn’t have a choice. There was no fancy classroom either of us were escaping to.
  Is a tired trope tho

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- Oof, that is incredibly upsetting. I don't know how we fix this.
  
  Prioritize education and universal child care services
  
  Removing profiteering would be a good first step. We got here by neolibs deciding that everything was fair game to make money on. So, millennial, zoomer, and future generations' educations were sold off. For decades, literacy education has been using systems developed to allow people with learning disabilities to be functional in modern society, not to foster reading comprehension.
  
  Overhaul the entire tax system and how schools are funded. Good luck.
  
  I think for a lot of people, reading of kind of a luxury they don't have time for. Kind of hard to hone your literacy skills when you're living hand to mouth.
  Then again, I'm a self taught engineer from a poor immigrant family. So who the hell knows.
- You got me fucked up if you think I'm reading all that.
  
  USA can’t read good
- Do you know what the proportion of native English speakers vs non-native speakers is in the US?
  It doesn't diminish your point, but probably that non-native speakers skew the stats a bit if they are included in the stat.
  
  Kinda. If we’re talking about who can participate in the workforce or online conversations, being literate in the dominant language equals “being literate”.

Teachers do get a bad rap.
- 🥁
- Third grade was the case that they gave me

Nah, the teachers where I am absolutely will say, quite literally "You won't ever amount to anything, why are you even here? Shouldn't you be dealing drugs on some corner somewhere?"
- Ohio is getting crazy these days.
- Hustle hustle hustle!
- No, they don't.
  
  I'm so glad for you to be living in such a great area of the world where it doesn't, or to be a passing skin color - I'm happy that you've been sheltered from the realities such as this. I would give anything to have that kind of privilege. But I live in the real world, not sheltered white suburbia.

I had a teacher when I was 9 who hated boys. She was cruel and threatened to fail me for the year. Every other teacher that year, I had no issues and was doing great. This one had a vendetta and seemed to want to ensure that none of the few boys in her class would pass. My mom was luckily a strong advocate for us though and almost got that bitch fired.

Confusion intensities

In reality it was your dad who said you were useless.

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