• AidsKitty@lemmy.world
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    Idk what schools are teaching now but current test schools would indicate it is certainly not reading, writing, or arithmetic.

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      Maybe the schools tend to be trying. But between having basically no disciplinary authority, no threat of failing kids because admin always makes sure kids pass, and chronic underfunding. You end up with the teachers trying to teach something basic while half the class is watching tiktoks on their phone, a quarter are talking to each other, and another quarter are skipping. And the teacher has basically no authority to do anything about it.

      They can’t fail kids. Admin strongly pressures them not to send kids to prinicpal or detention because it’s a waste of admin’s time. So they can’t really do anything to get the class into check. In that environment, you end up teaching for the few kids that listen and passing everyone else with C’s at admin’s request.

      This was my experience teaching a year in a “lower middle class” neighbourhood in the US. As a european it was massive culture shock.

      And good fucking luck being more engaging than a tittok as a math teacher. I put hours of work into making engaging and participative lessons, almost felt like I had to plan a show instead of a lesson to keep the students engaged. And still was incredibly underwhelmed by kids participation.

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          Probably lose my job if I do it regularly. And admin would not have my back when the parents inevitably come and complain and blame it on me and I’m not allowed to ignore them so it would really suck for a while.

          I quit after the first year though. I signed up to be a teacher, not a babysitter.

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    This only got overshadowed by his “they’re eating the cats and dogs“ quote. Aside from that, this may be one of the most insane things he’s said.

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      More insane than thinking Canada has a giant faucet that takes all the melt water from the polar ice cap and dumps it in the Pacific, instead of letting it run “down” to California?

      Edit. Pluralised ice cap. I don’t think even Trump is stupid enough to think the south pole’s run off ends up in Canada.

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      That same video he also talks about how he “saved” people in historically black colleges. Literally white savior complex

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    So we have school 4 days a week instead of 5. Your child will be back to their original gender in time for the weekend.

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    No, you’re thinking of that coffin in Dark Souls. Completely different thing, though I understand if you’re a complete moron it can be confusing.

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    No no Donnie I insist, please go into the details. Cuz I just got done helping the kids with their homework and it was all math and reading and spelling.

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      He hate-rages himself to bed, knowing he has multiple lawsuits he has to attend, a shrinking circle of people he trusts, two assassination attempts, and his wife and family are counting down the days he dies.

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    I recall the old Bugs Bunny cartoons and the rascally rabbit dressed up as a woman. The MAGATs are regressive turds.

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    “I don’t want to get into the details.”

    Yeah. I know. Because it doesn’t farking happen

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    I did leave for school and they taught me the tools necessary to understand my gender properly. And yeah those tools aren’t reading, writing, or arithmetic, it was calculus actually.

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    This is the biggest “fuck you” to teachers…

    If Trump spent 1 day in a fucking public school I feel his tune would change.

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      I don’t have to imagine. In Spain the right wing party was 24/7 spring lies about “children being punished in Catalonia for speaking in Spanish”. One of those assholes was interviewed in front of a public school where kings were playing and he said the same thing. And when the guy making the interview asked him “in which language are these kids speaking? Aren’t they speaking Spanish?” instead of saying something a working brain would say, he doubled down.

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      If Trump spent 1 day in a fucking public school I feel his tune would change.

      It absolutely would not.

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      No. Nothing can change his tune: reality has no impact on his tune, being wrong, being absurd, being called out, nothing. Actually not changing his tune is basically his core messaging strategy. That piece of shit…

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    Would it be so terrible if your kid came home a different gender? Would they still be your kid? Would you still love them? There are worse things - like your kid coming home full of holes made by an AR-15.

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    It’s the country of Lalalandburg and it’s located in the remote recesses of the back of a senile, irrelevant, and terrified old man’s head.