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.
Wow you guys had to use the hill? That's rough.
Had to go up it both ways everyday for school.
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.
We don't think janitors are bad. We think it sucks to be a janitor because cleaning isn't fun.
And being paid very little + we all know they get treated like trash because we think lowly of their profession.
Damn that’s hardcore.
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".
Things would probably be different if teachers made more money or if the requirements were higher. For most people who become teachers, it definitely was not their intended career progression. Just something they landed on.
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.
"Oh, stewardess, I speak Jive."
Gangsta CC lol
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.
It also subtly hints that the teacher was a big part of their becoming a rapper, because reading aloud means articulating in a strong voice under pressure.
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
It's like they won't even try to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
They don't let you redo in a good school. Trust me, I looked.
Generally speaking those who haven’t encountered evil think reports of evil are exaggeration and myth.
Wow, have you even tried being born to a socioeconomic status that put you in a better school zone??
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 💙)
Oof, that is incredibly upsetting. I don't know how we fix this.
Prioritize education and universal child care services
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.
Shockingly the military isn’t the reason we cant have the other things we want, it’s because we don’t make everyone pay their fair share.
Also while it’s unpopular the f22 project did push the envelope for technology and that money wasn’t just burned, the f22 is still quite the technological achievement and even failures result in significant research and development
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.
Overhaul the entire tax system and how schools are funded. Good luck.
You got me fucked up if you think I'm reading all that.
USA can’t read good
Huh? What are those shapes?
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”.
Teachers do get a bad rap.
Nah, the teachers where I am absolutely will say, quite literally "You won't ever amount to anything, why are you even here? Shouldn't you be dealing drugs on some corner somewhere?"
Ohio is getting crazy these days.
I had a teacher when I was 9 who hated boys. She was cruel and threatened to fail me for the year. Every other teacher that year, I had no issues and was doing great. This one had a vendetta and seemed to want to ensure that none of the few boys in her class would pass. My mom was luckily a strong advocate for us though and almost got that bitch fired.
Confusion intensities
In reality it was your dad who said you were useless.
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