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#EDUCATION SYSTEM RANT
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Apex predator, my ass. I’m going to pet the dog 🐻🐻‍❄️🐼
perhaps now is a good time for some responsible bear programming to remind everyone that as cute and cuddly as they may seem, bears are lethal apex predators and should absolutely be treated accordingly if ever encountered.
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fru1typunch · 7 months
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Here's a little post ranting about the Floridian education system and how it fucked over public school librarians this year, from the adult child of one who spent his whole summer helping his poor mom try and keep up with Desantis's ridiculous requests.
Every school year, the librarian always gets a couple weeks with a "closed" library to take inventory of the school's stock at the end. Normal stuff, y'know, if a bit tedious and boring. Scan every. Single. Thing. See what you have and figure out who last checked out what you should have, that sort of thing.
Well, Ron Desantis, in his genius, decided that concept had to be applied to all the books in the entire school to determine if they're "appropriate" (by his batshit conservative standards).
My mom didn't JUST have to do the usual inventory thing for her own library. She ALSO had to do something similar but far WORSE for her entire school's personal classroom libraries.
The objective of this SCHOOL WIDE requirement was to "approve" every book in the school as "appropriate". Every. Single. Book. In. The. School. Not the school library, no, the SCHOOL. All classrooms.
My mom's an elementary school librarian. There's around 1000 students at her school, give or take, and around 50 or so classroom libraries to sort through. And this was supposed to be done over summer, before the kids came back in the fall. Entirely unpaid.
She had to personally approve around 25,000-30,000 books school wide based on whether or not they're "appropriate for kids" (again, by Desantis standards), entirely unpaid, in about 2 months. Keep in mind these classroom libraries had been pre-existing for many years or even decades in most cases, so it's kinda useless to just now care about whether the books are "appropriate".
Mind you, you can't read that many individual books in under two months and then approve them in the system if you tried, even if most were children's books. She spent every single day of her summer, her only real time off each year, logging into the online portal and manually approving books from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, looking them up and trying to determine if they might be okay by the new standards since she couldn't possibly have the time to read them all and check, and again, entirely unpaid on her own. Teachers were scanning in their classroom's books to the system to be approved by her in real time, so she really never could get very far ahead. At most she'd knock out a few hundred a day, which I think is wildly impressive given the circumstances.
Even with all that work, she couldn't open her library for nearly a month into the new school year this August because she spent every school day finishing that approval thing for the classroom libraries for teachers. At least by that point she got paid for it. She was also way behind on getting her library ready for the school year, she really hadn't had time to prepare like normal. It was a crazy stressful time for her all around, moreso than back-to-school time normally is each year.
I helped as much as I knew how to, which mostly just meant looking books up for her or texting back and forth with my friends that work at Barnes and Noble or Books A Million asking if they could skim through certain books that might pose a threat at times, and coming up to the school with her sometimes while she worked on approving books and I worked on preparing her library for "business" again.
My mom was upset because she didn't have time for a real summer vacation, the most she got to do was occasionally visit the beach a few hours away for a day trip. (On one of the beach days, she even took her blessed laptop with her to work on it in the car ride over.) She was in the thick of it neck deep all on her own for months with hardly any time off and no pay to show for it.
It's frustrating because if she were to have approved a book that a parent later complains about, it could mean bad news for her. Again, no way in hell would she have been able to both read every single book, determine if she thought it was okay by Desantis's standards, and then approve every single book within the system. She did her best, but she's still nervous someone will complain.
All this conservative bullshit around books is hurting so many kinds of librarians and educators in so many ways, so just take a moment sometime soon to appreciate your local librarians and public school teachers putting up with this crap. They could use the love. Maybe some strong alcohol. And a big wad of cash, they do a lot of shit unpaid.
And do vote these assholes out of office that are making these poor librarians' and teachers' jobs harder with no additional support or pay.
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study-diaries · 28 days
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A Reminder To Those Who Need It.
I got this question a lot and I'm absolutely tired of hearing it...
"What are you doing in college?", "What are your plans after senior year?"
Like, I don't even know what I'm gonna do over the break or the next whole year, so, i thought maybe it's like this for everyone. People are expected to decide everything like it won't actually impact their life. Most of my class is damn sure about what they wanna do while me? I just wanna pass senior year with good grades and think about it slowly and with a clearer head.
For me, the main thing that matters is that i shouldn't regret taking something i don't like and I don't wanna rush the whole decision up. And i just got like such judgy eyes... ugh... Like, I don't know what i want... Why is that not okay nowadays? Why is taking time to figure it out not alright?
So, to everyone who's in a situation like me...
You don't have to have everything figured out, if you don't know what you're gonna do, that's completely fine. Take your time, it's not a race.
Honestly, it can be quite confusing and you may feel like you might be kinda lax about it but honestly, it's definitely okay :)
You're not obliged to rush your decisions just because another person has already made theirs.
Just wanted to say that... okay, bye.
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ashcadence · 8 months
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I hate it when teachers complain about special ed students because I was a special ed student. My parents had to pull me out and homeschool me because, behaviorally/emotionally, I needed extra support, but academically, I was always several years ahead of my peers (could have graduated high school at 14 kind of ahead).
Just because a kid is in special ed doesn't mean they're stupid or won't make it far in life. They just need a little extra support.
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anxiety-banana · 3 months
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just remembered that my dunks gift card is more secure than my ssn and i think i've lost faith in america's ability to upgrade systems created two hundred years ago.
oh wait. i never had faith in america's anything. social security numbers are the tip of the iceberg.
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purpletrashcans · 2 months
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This is a rant, an oddly specific, very unnecessary Radio Silence rant
Okay so we all remember that one tumblr post in Radio Silence in which a user talked about how privileged and rude Aled was for criticizing the education system and not wanting to go to university
This post - and I know it's not real, I know the person who wrote it doesn't exist - makes me so mad every. Single. Time.
Like have you ever thought about the fact that some people are simply not made for university, some people are just fucking miserable when they're - yk - stuck in university, i mean having the privilege of being able to choose if you want to go to university also means having the privilege of being able to not go
Also just because you have the privilege of being able to go to university doesn't mean you can't criticize a system that is so obviously shit, like i'm sorry, but even as someone who actually kinda enjoys university i 100% think that we not only have the right, but also responsibility to criticize when we see deficiencies or problems in the education system
And what kind of weird whataboutism is this "You don’t want to go to university, because you know it would make you miserable and think that the education system is deeply flawed? Well what about people that can't go to university at all, you privileged prick? How dare you not want to be miserable for at least the next 3 years of your life!!!!" Like i'm sorry but that’s so idiotic i can't even
Just because you CAN go to university doesn't mean you have to, the privilege is that you have the choice, that it's your decision
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samaspic31 · 5 months
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God I fucking HATE academic gatekeeping and disciplinary segregation. And classism and selective access ofc (why do you only want to teach people who already know)
Like. None of these disciplines should be that separate. If you're teaching history or philosophy without sociology, giving dogmatic language classes without analyzing linguistic construction or semantics, if you're doing gender studies without biology, religious studies without rhetoric, history without political science, marketing or medicine or even law without ethics (and those ethics classes accounting for ALL discrimination, core bigoted beliefs and giving precise examples) (most fields tbh omg give the people in stem and studying law some goddamn critical thinking and frameworks to combat ingrained bigotry), teaching "intellectual" matters without addressing capitalist devaluation of physical labor, no media literacy or how to read statistics, nothing to actually make sure students have absorbed the material (not graded tests) the education is incomplete
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oatbugs · 7 months
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i understand being tired of the oppressive systems around us and having to pay for good therapy and the NHS sucks and job market sucks and capitalism sucks etc etc and i understand how shitty it must be to be told that the solution to fix The Ailments caused at least in part by The System is to engage further w the system but i swear to god wallowing in depression and doing absolutely nothing to better yourself or change things for yourself is not the rebellion you think it is !! you're not rejecting the system you're just existing within it doing nothing and being horribly depressed while resigning yourself to horrible depression for life !!!!! being like "yeah well the nhs sucks so i wont even TRY therapy what does talking to someone do anyway. what do meds do anyway." etc etc bc smn on reddit said fluoxetine didn't work for them and not contacting any of the ppl who you ghosted bc you got anxious abt it like 2 yrs ago is not a flex it is not a rejection of the omnipresent system it's not making u special or More Vulnerable Than others at some point u have to choose to get better bro omg.
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vee-is-a-clown · 1 year
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Keith is ranting again (Please ignore the horribly drawn background)
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disast3rtransp0rt · 2 months
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I have gotten the opportunity to be the Safe Queer Adult for several teens while substituting at a high school and it has been the most incredible experience. I am beyond thankful for each and every exhausting moment and I need to vent some positivity.
I am so grateful for the two closeted-ish trans kiddos who anxiously shared their information in whispers after hearing me say "You can call me Miss or Mister, I don't care." and now regularly swing by my room just to hear their actual names/pronouns used with joy. And I'm grateful for the 14 year old lesbian (who will absolutely build her future wife a she-shed from scratch someday) who heard me say "my girlfriend" and immediately stopped fucking around in class and started turning in assignments/chatting with me at my desk/asking her more studious friends for help focusing. I'm even grateful for the conservative boy who started thinking about how his words impact other people after I said one of his offhanded homophobic comments really hurt my feelings - cause he spends every morning before school in my room chatting even though I'm not his teacher. He hadn't known I was queer until that moment, but other students did, and the awkward silence must have made him think.
Cause I'm the Cool Substitute. The one who will work with you about extensions and let you have test corrections without jumping through extra hoops. I know from living through both sides of the relationship that respecting kids and showing them patience is the best and fastest way to ensure empathetic, confident adults.
They know how dearly I treasure each nervously extended phone screen covered with prom dress pinterest ideas and transitional haircut options. They can rely on how hype I will get over their 3-second "new haircut glamour pose" when they walk into class. It costs me nothing to give an exhausted athlete a 1 day extension on his project after 2 consecutive basketball games. Kindness goes so far, but especially with kids, and I hope this little rant can reach some people who need to see it.
To quote Dr. Chuck Tingle, "The inertia of all things is toward love."
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kraro-school-life · 4 months
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i am interested in what a Gymnasium is! i am from the u.s. so we don't have anything really like it.
from my googling, it seems to be like a higher level/more advanced secondary school/high school before university? i am pretty curious. what do students have to do to qualify?
Ok, wow my first ask!! (💖) Thank you so much I hope I can explain it good enough:
A Gymnasium is a type of secondary school, that comes after elementary schol. In Germany, the individual „Bundesländer“ (States ig?) manage the laws for Education, so it’s very different depending on which „state“ you live in. Elementary school is mostly 4-6 years long, and after that you go to secondary school.
There are 3 main types of secondary school, “Hauptschule”, “Realschule”, and “Gymnasium”. (There are of course other options you can take, but these are the most common ones). And the school you get into depends on your average grade the last year of elementary. To explain it simply: it’s worst to best. The children with the best grades get accepted into a Gymnasium, the less good into a Realschule and then Hauptschule.
And that’s the thing about the German Education system. Not to exaggerate, but it’s like your life depends on how well you do in school as a kid as early as 4th grade. Which is fucked. Like how does that make sense?? Most of the students who are in a Gymnasium are expected to go into university, and it’s harder to get in if you only graduated from f.e. a Realschule (which is also shorter btw). Unfortunately, there is also a direct correlation between the amount of money parents are earning and what level education their children get.
You could say it’s sorted by skill, but really, i feel like it’s not. I could rant about the education system in Germany and how it’s just bad, forever (I even went to a convention that talked about it), but it could be worse honestly. It’s not THAT bad.
(Although I say that I go to a gymnasium, it’s a bit different for me personally, because it’s kind of a private school, but mostly the same.)
I hope I could help you out a bit, and I think it great how you want to know more about other systems!! American schools seem so different to me though, the freshman, sophomore thing is kinda confusing to me. I have to inform myself now lol.
(edit: wow this turned into a rant I didn’t intend on writing, hopefully I still answered your question)
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staygoldsunshine · 5 months
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Me, staring at the ✨Magic School✨ trope: I could do this... But Better.
My rocky relationship with academic institutions: You're going to make it nice and idealistic right?
Me:
My rocky relationship with academic institutions:
Me: I can add cute little colleges with team colors and mascots if you want.
Me: But it will absolutely be a dismantling of a hypocritical system that preys on the vulnerable with empty promises and unhealthy expectations that ultimately leads to burn out and disillusionment if not permanent financial ruin.
My rocky relationship with academic institutions: But still with a heart for higher learning and the end goal of providing a vision for a better future?
Me: Yeah, I am a sucker for those...
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lonelylesbian2 · 2 months
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I remember when I was younger people would ALWAYS make fun of me when I talked about my family because of what I called them. My family is Indian (punjabi to be exact) so I was subject to LOADS of mockery anyway. But when we did family trees in primary school I got laughed at so badly and so many people told me I had the 'wrong' names because my maternal uncle wasn't called 'mama', that was what my mother was called. When I tried to explain that that's what I called them in my culture I got told I was wrong. 8 year old me thought that my family tree was supposed to be filled with my family. What they were called to me. 8 year old me got told I was wrong. My teachers gave me sheets to fill out with 'uncle' and 'aunt' and 'grandma'. I grew up like that and when I was 10 years old we went to go and visit my mums family in Delhi. I called my mothers mum grandma. Now, when I visit I'm older, now I call my mother sister 'mausi', I call people who aren't related to me closely but are still very close 'mausi'. Because that's my culture. I am an only child but I have people I call 'didi', I have people who call me 'didi'. My older relatives call me 'beta'. I am not their daughter, but that is our culture. Now, I don't let anyone tell me what I can and can't call my family. Because they are mine. Now when people ask who's visiting, i tell them my 'chacha'.
I hate that I ever let anyone tell me my culture was wrong, that I had to leave my blood and roots behind in favour of what other people knew. But I was young and that was the reality of it. Everyday, my heart goes out to the little 8 year old girl sitting at the dining table, wishing she could change the colour of her skin and the blood in her veins.
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brenninthetaylorverse · 6 months
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I'm so done with the American Education system. This is ridiculous. I was just up for about three hours doing straight homework. I'm not even kidding. Teachers right now, I really feel bad for them and some teachers are good but the homework they give us and the amount is crazy. Do they not realize that the more homework they give us, they are going to have to grade? And then they complain about having to grade so much. You brought this upon yourself.
There is also a crazy amount of stress being put on students too. "You need to go to college so you can be successful." If by successful you mean $50,000 dollars in debt by the time I'm 23 then yeah, I'll be pretty successful. People wonder why we don't want to do school and why we hate school, and I have a pretty simple answer. Because school hates us. We are set up to fail in school where we are meant not to retain information but "learn it" and test then move on to a different subject.
It's crazy I have to relearn everything from last year because I just forgot it after I tested on it. Teachers are trying to shove so much information in our brains in such a short period of time that no wonder we're forgetting it. And when I've been told to be silent all day and sitting in a chair, obviously I'm going to want to talk to my friend and get up.
This is getting really bad and everybody who says it's not an issue has clearly never had to deal with school in the last 15 years of their life. This needs to be fixed, like now.
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tilting-at-windmills · 6 months
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Um, don't cheer for any innocent deaths, please.
Let's support all the human rights
Does fucking anyone know the actual history of the creation of Israel, and it being dead center in an area that did not like the Jews or the westerners? Spoiler alert: it was the west that figured everything out, not the Jews
Yes, anti-Semitism is a real and scary and completely normalized thing and people are dying
Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom ARE NOT OPPOSING CAUSES
So there's a lot of history that, at least, the US, I assume the UK, and I'm sure many others, do not bother to teach that is critical to understanding how this is not about what it appears to be. It's a struggle between many more actors, some much more powerful, and the Jews and Palestinians involved are so not the majority of the problem.
Jews and Zionists are not the same, and yes, you do have to keep making that clear, because people do keep conflating the two, and, shockingly enough, people just keep fucking attacking Jews, and for some strange reason that's been on the rise.
There have been anti Zionist Jews since 1939, likely earlier (there are some stories from the late 1800s but I haven't fact checked them yet).
There are more Baptist and Evangelical Zionists in the US (as the country I know most about) than Jewish ones. It is a multicultural movement, and there were, for instance, a fair number of Russian Zionists who were involved in the pogroms because, that's right, they hated Jews.
Next point.
Britain and the UN want to divide Palestine in the 1920s and draw up the plan.
Western nations ignore the Holocaust for several years.
They feel a bit bad, and are eager to give Jews a place to live after. Why? Well:
a) They certainly don't want to take the Jewish people in, and they can't go home; b) The west has been looking for an ally in the mideast, and here they can create one who will be completely dependent on them for their survival (remember that most of their neighbors do hate them [to be fair, so does much of the world, but more subtly, so that's a different discussion] and the Jews literally cannot survive without western aid and support which means keeping western countries happy)
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Jews did live there six thousand years ago and were probably pretty happy to find the one spot in the world where maybe no one would hate them post-Holocaust and I guess it would've had some nice memories. NOT DENYING THAT THE PALESTINIANS WERE LIVING THERE WHEN ISRAEL WAS CREATED. But if you want to include religious history, Judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion and was the first to settle there. Because no other ones existed for several thousand more years.
At this point in my story (mid-20th century), no one likes the Palestinians. (In fact, until recently, Palestinians have essentially been "the Jews of the Arab world," and if this ends soon enough, their neighbors will not continue to support them. The Jews and the Palestinians are far more alike than they are different; who do you think it benefits to have them pitted against each other?)
(And I am more than happy to discuss this further, this is a broad overview but one most people are unfortunately never taught that is critical to understanding where we are today. The Jews were never conquerors, they were victims handed a life line and after Hitler do you think they were going to question it? That said, of course some Jews did horrific things. So did some Palestinians. Neither side has clean hands. And neither side is defined by those who are currently doing the fighting. Both people deserve a state, and it is not the fault of either that other colonizers, always so good at dividing up the world, fucked that one up, too.)
So before being supporting innocent Israelis dying in the name of ending whichever term you feel is most appropriate to use for what's happening now? Please. Learn the history. Do not let the insidious anti-Semitism that is prevalent in literally ever western culture allow you to conflate all Israelis, let alone all Jews, with the Netanyahu government. How many of you liked Trump and all the shit we're living with now?
Anti-Semitism and Islamaphobia are both inherent parts of western culture. I am not going to go into detail about how specific stereotypes hurts them and helps their oppressors, but it is pretty easy to find
The majority of Jews in the west are indeed white or white passing. People will claim this means they can't be discriminated against. These same people (yes, often in leftist circles), will literally force Jews to denounce Israel, Netanyahu, the IDF, whatever, or will kick them out. Because if you're a Jew, people assume you're A Jew, and apparently that means you don't get the common courtesy of others expecting that you support human rights. This is not a fairytale. This is happening now and has been for years-- again, in the left which I know more about, people like to use how anti-Israel they are to show how liberal they are, but don't know enough history or nuance to distinguish between Israel the country, the history of Israel the country, Israel's current government, civilian Israelis, the diaspora of Jewish people, and the often non-Jewish Zionists, making it very easy for those who really hate Jews to hop on that train and keep promoting anti-Semitism.
Point being, yes, you do actually have to keep saying, while you post, that you do not support any anti-Semitic action, you are not against innocent Israeli civilians who happen to live elsewhere in the country (and have, you know, been protesting the government for months on end), that Zionism not only does not mean Judaism but often does not mean Jewish people who are Zionist (do you know how many right wing Christians want Jews to go fight the last was in Israel so they can get raptured?) because yes, JEWS ARE GETTING ATTACKED AND MURDERED FOR THEIR RELIGION, AROUND THE WORLD, because people don't have the time or patience for nuance or history. Of course it is literally different than what is happening to Palestinians and you know what? You can care about more than one thing at once.
Moreover, who is benefiting, right now, from the fighting? Who wins because of this hatred and this killing and all money being poured into it and all the other areas being ignored? Why is this happening now, and what are the surrounding countries gaining from it?
This has never been about the Jews or the Palestinians. They have been pushed to a breaking point by the politics of others. Do you think the US actually cares about Israel? It wants an ally in the mideast. Do you think the Arab world will care about Palestinians when this is over? Don't kid yourself.
It's about those with power, like always, and the rest are just pawns, so save your hatred for those who deserve it and spend some time learning the facts behind the current political circumstances, because this started way further back than October 7th, or whichever date you feel like choosing this century.
Support the people, because they are the ones suffering, in Gaza and beyond.
(Sorry if I repeated myself, this isn't even half of what I have to say but do you know how hard it is to get people to listen to you when 1. they're sure the blogs they've been reading mean they're right and 2. are so terrified at the thought of having accidentally been anti-Semitic (or insert term for the current issue here) that they will straight up refuse to listen rather than learn?
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