The sub is legit weird. It’s an odd mix of overly-exploited teachers with a kind heart and a good head on their shoulders sharing trauma or challenges or the frustration about systemic issues and then just old-school regan-era “kill the fuckers” type republicans complaining about adhd
Its not that weird when you understand it mostly functions as a vent sub for teachers. I used to be subbed, and it was sometimes cathartic, but eventually it was just too doomery
Now that I’m home and can charge my phone, a longer response. Calling teachers cruel is not a principled critique of schooling, compulsory or otherwise. It’s a lib-brained take to think that systemic and structural issues are a result of the individual virtue of people involved
I always wonder what people’s childhoods were like
I’m absolutely fine with admitting that, if that was your intention. I’ve seen quite a bit of unprincipled teacher bashing on Hexbear before and I’ll call it out when I see it.
The problem is not that teachers individually are authoritarian, but that the education system is and can only be authoritarian under capitalism. Also, I only invite people to send me Foucault, something which, crucially, you have never done
Yeah it’s such a weirdly tight-assed response to some obviously funny tomfoolery. All it would take is for the teacher to be in on it as well. Start flipping your own coin, start calling heads or tails.
Oh yeah it’s practically a given that I would flip a coin to determine the lesson plan, then just do what I was going to do anyway because it’s not like any of them could see how it landed.
I mean this sincerely, eat shit
That sub is genuinely a distilled stew of the clueless cruelty of school teachers in the imperial core
Glad someone is fighting the good fight against the greatest enemies of the proletariat: teachers and bed times
I’m a teacher, comrade.
Lmao, me too. Never mind, carry on comrade
Its an honourable fight. My teachers made me miserable by bullying the shit out of me and my parents sent me to bed at 7pm until i was 18.
I will continue fighting until teachers and bed times are abolished.
The sub is legit weird. It’s an odd mix of overly-exploited teachers with a kind heart and a good head on their shoulders sharing trauma or challenges or the frustration about systemic issues and then just old-school regan-era “kill the fuckers” type republicans complaining about adhd
Its not that weird when you understand it mostly functions as a vent sub for teachers. I used to be subbed, and it was sometimes cathartic, but eventually it was just too doomery
I get the venting part, it’s just weird to me that the mix doesn’t seem to lead to conflicts
Let’s be fair, excessively punitive teachers can really fuck kids over
There are absolutely shitty teachers
I always wonder what people’s childhoods were like that they trivialize criticisms of compulsory schooling.
Now that I’m home and can charge my phone, a longer response. Calling teachers cruel is not a principled critique of schooling, compulsory or otherwise. It’s a lib-brained take to think that systemic and structural issues are a result of the individual virtue of people involved
Fuck off
Funny this is the exact way that sub treats student behaviour, but it’s the critique of this that’s lib apparently
That take on student behavior is both bad and cringe, and so is the critique
You can just admit you got prickly because you assumed a criticism of a bunch of r*dditors was a criticism of teachers writ large
I’m absolutely fine with admitting that, if that was your intention. I’ve seen quite a bit of unprincipled teacher bashing on Hexbear before and I’ll call it out when I see it.
How do you name myself after Foucault AND make fun of people for criticizing authoritarian teachers
The problem is not that teachers individually are authoritarian, but that the education system is and can only be authoritarian under capitalism. Also, I only invite people to send me Foucault, something which, crucially, you have never done
“You Foucault!” - Matt Christman (PBUH) to a tradcath
Does that count sir?
I’ll allow it
Yeah it’s such a weirdly tight-assed response to some obviously funny tomfoolery. All it would take is for the teacher to be in on it as well. Start flipping your own coin, start calling heads or tails.
Right, the teachers joining in on it and trying to be cool would be the quickest way to make them stop doing it.
I would literally just get a two heads sided coin and flip it myself.
Oh yeah it’s practically a given that I would flip a coin to determine the lesson plan, then just do what I was going to do anyway because it’s not like any of them could see how it landed.