disablededucator

[disablededucator]

genuinely one of the worst things the lgbt community has ever done was allow itself to convince young lgbt people that being gay means you’re bad at math or at science or any of the stem fields. it’s straight up misogynistic cishet ideology repurposed and put in a cute little rainbow box. but you can. reclaim. it, i guess 😒

[disablededucator]

[disablededucator]

Teaching school children to murder someone is not the solution.

Teaching school children that they won't get in legal trouble, and that it isn't ethically wrong to kill an intruder, is psychologically damaging.

I understand that kids are taught this to save themselves and their classmates, and that it makes sense.

The brains of young kids do not understand this. They cannot begin to comprehend why a murderer is bad, but if they kill someone, they are not bad. They can't grapple this. They genuinely can't.

This cannot be the solution.

School children are showing signs of PTSD just from having to try to rationalize being taught to murder someone to protect themselves.

They have nightmares about having to throw books, chairs, and water bottles at a stranger with a gun.

Sure, in the moment, this would come in handy to help protect the most people. It will save lives. It will protect children. The adrenaline will likely kick in and allow school children to commit unspeakable violence to keep themselves and their peers safe.

But at what fucking cost?

This is not the solution. It cannot be the solution.

[disablededucator]

After people- especially children- are lost to gun violence, everyone grieves.

In their grief, parents say "Please, please, let's make change. Do not let this happen to any more children."

Right-wingers, in their grief, say "This is awful, but please don't take my guns."

And then they say, "Choosing this time of grief to focus on changing gun laws is unconscionable. People are grieving."

And the parents beg, "Please don't let this happen again."

And the people with common sense, too.

And the centrists say "Using this time to push any political agenda is wrong. Just grieve."

We grieve, and in our grief, we seek change. To condemn our grief and our desire for change and compare it to right-wingers clinging to their guns for dear life is imperceptibly cruel.

A parent, desperate to not lose a child, is not the same as a person desperate to not lose a gun.

Guns are objects.

Children are people with everything good and wonderful in life ahead of them.

Our children- this entire nation's children- are traumatized. This cannot go on.

Reprimanding people who want to stop this senseless violence is not the answer. This is how we grieve.

Grief brings tidal waves of anger, sorrow, and desperation. This is grief.

Right-wingers and centrists refuse to allow themselves the experience of grief because it is uncomfortable. Avoiding grief only makes it louder.

They want us docile, sad, unable to speak against them.

We want the children safe.

[disablededucator]

Actually they just don't teach that in schools (at least not in the US). They literally teach a version of history that includes none of this.

ppl joke and say that a lot of liberals weren’t paying attention in schools but like . it’s true..i rlly don’t think many of them realize the biggest changes this country has ever seen in regards to civil rights have been earned through violence, protest, riots, war in our own country, directly going against police even when faced with incarceration, NOT from voting, something as simple as free breakfast for children in america didn’t have its origin from voting, it came from actually getting involved in the community, if u rlly think voting is the end all he all for social change u have been deluded and lied to, pick up a book

[disablededucator]

It's autistic acceptance month and this month is extremely hard on disabled educators, in my experience.

So many schools and districts are observing "autism awareness month" and having students wear blue and selling puzzle piece fundraisers for Autism Speaks.

Every single one of those schools is doing a disservice to every autistic child (identified/diagnosed already or not) and their family members, and also just to every student there in general who are getting incorrect information about autism, and by extension every autistic person that any of them will meet.

[disablededucator]

Hey peeps, please reblog this post if your blog is focused on:

ADHD

Autism

Chronic pain/chronic illnesses

Life hacks/helpful advice

My dash is really dead and I need to follow more people. Please only reblog if you are over 18 years old. Thanks!

[disablededucator]

That's on our education system purposefully minimizing the content we learn about other countries because if we learned a lot about them while young, we'd demand better.

americans are like i was gifted child but also i didnt learn other countries existed until i was 35 years old

[disablededucator]

important!

[disablededucator]

As you can tell by my url, I'm disabled.

As a teen, I did horrible in every class that didn't grade primarily or exclusively on test scores. Homework is inaccessible.

I had a teacher, in 12th grade, who:

Wouldn't let you turn anything in if you missed class that day unless you had a doctor's note

Wouldn't take any late work

Graded only on assignments and no tests or quizzes

Allowed a make up day at the end of the year where any student could come and turn in anything they missed through the semester, finish it, turn it in and receive reduced credit

I was medically neglected. I didn't have proper diagnosis for most of my disabilities, I didn't have any treatment, I didn't have medication, I didn't get taken to the doctor, I didn't get doctors notes, and frankly, I didn't even get called in for absences.

Every time I missed a day for illness, I would get behind in this class bc I couldn't turn anything in. So I started skipping class, because I was tired of being screamed at for things beyond my control. By the end of the year, I was failing. It wasn't the first time I'd failed classes over an accessibility issue.

When she announced the work day, I showed up as soon as it started and began working. I had already done some of the worl before then, but not been allowed to turn it in. I had 6 hours and I knew I could do everything.

I worked for over an hour. I came up to her desk with a few assignments to turn in.

She told me, "This day isn't for you. There's no way you can get all this done."

I said, "I can complete enough work to bring my grade up to passing. I might be able to do all of it. There's time."

She said, "You won't have time. You can't stay."

I said, "I will try."

She said, "You can't stay. You won't be able to improve your grade even if you turn in every assignment, which you won't. You need to leave."

And she made me leave. She did not grade any of the work I turned in. She gave me an F in the class. I retook it in summer school, I got a 99% because summer school was accessible to me.

There's two things I want you to takeaway from this post:

Disabled students are left behind for simply existing and being disabled

Teachers have the ultimate power to create or destroy someone's future, and they don't consider how monumentally they are changing lives when they do it

[disablededucator]

Nobody ever talks about the perfect sweet teachers having a position of power over kids, but they do! And they can harm with it. And they do! Like doctors and nurses.

Something needs to be done about teachers who hate kids tbh

[disablededucator]

Oh wow this makes a lot of sense

[disablededucator]

On today's episode of "neurodivergent in college," I had to take a standardized test for reasons and despite that I barely studied and am generally a horrible disorganized train wreck of a student, I did well.

See also: my post about ADHD youth sometimes doing well on tests but bad overall in courses because of workload inaccessibility.

[disablededucator]

Okay so I’m an elementary school art teacher right, and I have this really fun game I made a PowerPoint for to teach like, emotions and intent and looking at the whole picture to first grade.

The idea is, when we count down and change slides, kids have to mimic one thing in the painting as best they can, whether it’s animate or inanimate. If there’s nothing in the shot for them to mimic (because I threw some contemporary abstract stuff in), they have to show me how the painting makes them feel. Easy enough, gets them excited to move around and vocal about their feelings regarding art, it’s very chaotic. I can tell pretty fast who’s got the emotional maturity to mimic things in a complex way, and who’s just enough of an abstract thinker to mimic inanimate objects early on in the game...

So the first picture is this:

Napoleon Crossing the Alps. My favorite reactions are usually the kids who pretend to be the freaked-out horse, but 2 memorable occasions were the one where a student immediately scrunched up to be the rock in the foreground, and the one where a pair of girls, without any communication on their parts, decided to be Napoleon riding the horse with one as Napoleon and one as the horse. Basically one of them fully tackled the other apropos of nothing, it was hilarious

I’ll add more if y’all want or if I feel like it lol I have a bunch of stories from this one game

[disablededucator]

people are like “wow just giving parents money has cut childhood poverty in half in the usa. anyway were not sure if we want to extend it lol”

like, either give parents money or there will be children suffering in poverty. it is not a difficult decision.

[disablededucator]

Should I make a post about how how teachers can identify neurodivergent kids + and how to meet their needs?

[disablededucator]

This has been a vent