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.
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.
I’ve had horrible teachers, but mostly because they were abusive, and terrible at teaching. Even those horrible teachers never told me I wouldn’t amount to anything without appending the statement with “if you don’t apply yourself”.
Yeah some teachers are legitimately awful. I had one in fourth grade that was extremely disrespectful to her students, screaming at them and publicly humiliating ones that did poorly on tests or had trouble reading to the class. Acted the polar opposite when other faculty were in the room doing observation reviews.
I had this teacher who was openly cruel to me in front of my classmates. She didn’t even try to hide her disdain. Many years later my father told me she had a talk with him and told him: “I’d love to fail him but I can’t because he keeps scoring 10 in every exam.” So that was the reason, I never did my homework, I was always distracting my classmates but I always passed exams with a 10.
I had a real cunt of a math teacher in 6th grade, he taught his subject matter well but was just a bastard of a human being; I no longer have several mementos of my life (was an air force brat) because he confiscated them, and would be pedantic about how you asked to get things back (may i vs can i BS); eventually he would just dispose of things.
A meme or common trope about rappers is they say that their teachers told them they would amount to nothing.
This person says some of them are lying to act like a victim, and what actually happened is the teacher made them read aloud to the class which they may not have been good at, and it made them angry so they made up the story I mentioned previously.
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
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.
Yes. As Bruce Lee says, don’t be tense; be ready.
The optimal is to recognize that all situations warrant readiness for evil, which doesn’t have to mean actually seeing evil everywhere one goes.
I carry a knife at all times, because I was jumped by a drunk guy while homeless. He threw me down and kicked my head repeatedly until others pulled him off me. He did it because I asked him if he could spare a dollar.
But the other night, I was sitting at a traffic light. Three people walked by, two men and a woman. They were all giving me hostile stares.
I rolled down my window and said “Do you guys have a problem with me?” and they just said “No you’re just so cute”. The guys were gay I guess.
Realized I broke the rule of being ready, but not tense.
I appreciate your reminder, too.
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
brbbuzzkill here 😬 funny meme make sad (which never happens with you TPM 💙)
Yes, I’d much rather have my tax dollars going toward that than another air superiority fighter that: A. Doesn’t work and B. Wouldn’t be used because most of our military engagements are against groups without air forces.
Prioritize reading of fiction. We put too much emphasis on reading for education, but reading can be a great escape too.
People need escape mechanisms. Reading fiction is an escape and it makes people more literate and more articulate.
Educating the low level stuff is just as important as the high level stuff. And by low level stuff, I mean the ability to form coherent sentences, and arrange those into paragraphs.
Just running tons and tons of text through the brain helps with this. My Spanish verb conjugation, for example, got much better when I started reading Spanish literature. Because a good story eventually covers all the bases of all the tenses for conjugation, many many times. It’s so much more effective than a textbook on conjugation.
We learn by examples. Especially language. The best way to learn language is unconsciously, as a side effect of trying to communicate. A good story grips the reader’s conscious mind on the plot, allowing the absorption of the linguistic rules to be absorbed unconsciously.
We don’t have enough respect for fiction. We think people need to read about physics or history to get smarter. No. They can read about an adventure, and get smarter. Just like a person can play soccer and get more skilled. Drills are fine, but just playing the game makes you better too, and it’s so much more engaging than doing drills.
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.
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”.
Makes sense. I was asking because the links were talking about the English language. But considering that this is the working language, it doesn’t really matter in the end if the person is a native speaker or not. If they can’t hold a basic conversation or read simple instructions, it makes their life harder no matter what.
Teachers do get a bad rap.