Phones Bad > Parents Bad > Students Bad. This is what constitutes good analysis according to educators on reddit.
A child acted out in class, the West has fallen, millions must be spanked.
Two thousand years ago a little Roman boy refused to put on a toga. The empire immediately collapsed. Pompeii exploded. Troy was sacked. Atlantis fell into the ocean. A cow kicked a lantern and Chicago went up in flames.
Shit hasn’t been the same since.
I’m glad there’s so many based parents and teachers on this site. Represent
Agreed.
I had to unsub from r/teachers a long time ago. You have to keep in mind it’s mostly a vent sub/people in terrible situations or burned out trying to escape the profession. But eventually the relentless negativity was just too much for my anxiety at the time
Yeah it feels very detached from reality and popular enough that normies from the front page wonder in at times to drop their hot takes on a profession they’ve never done and a institution they haven’t been a part of for decades.
Q: Why are kids so bad?
A: It’s because of the
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swing dancing
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rock and roll music
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hippies
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marihuana cigarettes
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gangster rap
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video games
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Internets
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flip phones
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social media
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smartphones
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Tick-Tocks
and not alienation under capitalism.
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Every thread I see from there I want to scream at them the following:
TREAT THE KIDS LIKE HUMAN BEINGS, IMAGINE YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES OR PRETEND THEY ARE SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT
I bet once you cram 30+ of them into a single classroom or per period, they just become cattle.
We know that class sizes are a good predictor of academic performance (smaller being better), and that underfunded schools have larger class sizes, and that underfunded schools are often located in areas of poverty due to the nature of taxation, that high poverty areas have a high black and brown population due to systemic racism which developed as a result of a racist history, and that funding for schools can be withheld by the department of education if a district/state is found to be disciplining minorities disproportionately, and that tying founding to performance or discipline creates a negative incentive which in turn creates a chilling effect on discipline, which leads to the loss of support services jobs, which leads to a lack of support specialist, which leaves teachers being required to bridge the gap, which depresses academic performance, which depresses funding, which leads to less teachers per student, leaving teachers with 30+ students per classroom or period, and since we know that class sizes are a good predictor of academic performance (smaller being better)…
No, actually, its the parents who use the phones that are the problem.
There is a balance with the class sizes. Classroom management gets easier in some ways the more children there are. It’s easier to manage a cohesive group rather than a bunch of individuals.
Like 6 is too few. 15-25 is better depending on the experience of the teacher and the characteristics of the group.
The tricky part is that you still have to be mindful of what each individual child needs at a particular moment. 30+ children and it’s impossible to do this properly and the children that need extra attention will not get it.
Oh god, there’s a parents sub??
parent is one of the most numerous kinds of people in the world. however, it does raise the troubling possibility that some redditors have reproduced.
The most twisted subreddit is the adultery one.
Like imagine not only cheating on your partner but also feeling the need to be a member of a reddit community of likeminded cheaters, pure Yellow King shit.
The real yellow king sub (or maybe it was a thread) serious spoilers here unsettling content:
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People were talking about being r*pists
A lot of modern redditors probably don’t remember this was a thing. They probably think the jailbait thing was the worst of “old reddit.” It wasn’t.
I fucking remember that, holy shit
The fact that a LITERAL JAILBAIT SUBREDDIT was not the worst thing on reddit
Sometimes I forget about it and then I remember it and my brain just goes Jesus Fucking Christ…
Oh shit, great idea. I’d like to merge r/pharmacy and r/medicine with r/ADHD and r/ChronicPain. Just for the legendary dunkings the latter two would wrought on the former two.
I want to unleash the social relations each sub represents through consolidation and let the dialects flow.
As someone with a based educator as a partner, this kind of rhetoric and thinking pisses me off so much. Schools are so fucking harmful to children (which is a huge understatement but idk how to express it more strongly) and these kinds of people gleefully take up their position as functionally prison wardens and then have the shamelessness to blame everything on the children. Fuck these people. You literally just have to treat them like fucking human beings. School is designed to break their humanity. It says everything about YOU if you blame children and perpetuate this system.
As someone who wants to be an educator. A good teacher can literally save kids’ lives and being a leftist teacher is praxis.
Huge agree that schooling models we have today in the West are very anti-child. Like kids should be able to do dumb shit and the school shouldn’t have to suffer for it.
I’m ready for your TedTalk
