r/nyc - I Am a New York City Public High School Student. The Situation is Beyond Control.
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today there were 14 absent teachers 1st period

Second period I had another absent teacher. More of the same from 1st period. It was around this time that 25% of kids, including myself, realized that there were no rules being enforced outside of attendance at the start of the period, and that cutting lass was ridiculously easy. We left...

90% of the bathrooms were full of students swabbing their noses and taking their tests. I had one kid ask me -- with his mask down, by the way -- whether a "faint line was positive," proceeding to show me his positive COVID test.

I should note that in study hall and with subs we literally learn nothing. I spent about 3 hours sitting around today doing nothing.

By January the 3rd (when we returned from break) the numbers were up to 100 (as listed on the school Google Sheet). Today there are 226. This is around 10% of my school.

90% of the conversations spoken by students concern COVID.

One teacher flat out left his class 5 mins into the lesson and didn't return because he was developing symptoms

NYC views itself as progressive but honestly it treats most of its teachers like shit. It's unbelievable how inadequate and ramshackle the education system is in poor/working class areas, while a fifteen minute subway ride away sit some of the most prestigious universities in the world... I feel like an entire mini-generation is being permanently damaged by having their childhood stolen away from them capitalists whose fortunes depend on greasing the wheels of the financial system with the blood of the poor, and I only hope that some of the traumatized Zoomers realize who is really to blame for their mental impoverishment.

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Do you think the entire educational framework will collapse within a few years and we'll have a bunch of superpredators extremely stunted and emotionally traumatized children who can barely read having to resort to the most naked forms of human depravity just to survive?

    Like I'm talking Mexico tier violence but with white people and a few other groups in there too. All bred out of people who quite literally never got any chance whatsover. No healthcare, no school, no daycare, no nothing, FUCK you. You're going to watch Pewdiepie on your moms MetroPCS tablet in the lobby of McDonalds while she pulls 70 hours a week just to live in a box with 3 other people as dysfunctional as you are. That's going to be the bulk of your childhood. If you're lucky you won't be assaulted by some pedophile when your mom is busy filling an order for 5000 whoppers from some techbro douchebags making another shitty Youtube video. Motherfucker, you are going to get to your teens and there are going to be mutated Hyperborean Proud Boys beating you for your lunch money and making sure you don't get any funny ideas about "communism". The best thing a kid born in 2020 can hope for will to be die huffing glue with some other fucked person in a bombed out, long closed Sears in the dead of winter.

    Before they die, all they will hear is the non stop prattle of gun fire as the last Anarchist position in the nearby city is overrun by an Atomwaffen division. This is the future.

    • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Turning a big dial that says "lumpenproletariat" on it, and constantly looking back at the oligarchy for approval like a contestant on the price is right.

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        We did a coup and created the system we wanted there and it led to that.

        We have the systme we want here. The only difference is we got more money to keep things looking clean

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The silver lining is that american acools were never good enough to do any real education. So there isn't much father to fall.

      Kids will learn to read so they can erp sonic fanfic on twitter. Learn math so tell drugs etc. I mean unless they got enough money their parents pay to have kids learn.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Do you think the entire educational framework will collapse within a few years and we’ll have a bunch of superpredators extremely stunted and emotionally traumatized children who can barely read having to resort to the most naked forms of human depravity just to survive?

      Yes.

    • Spiderman [any]
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      3 years ago

      If you are so confident that militant fascism will reign supreme, I am surprised that you don’t just surrender to it

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I keep thinking about it and I don't think it will, but I'm pretty pessimistic about the future either way.

        edit: at the very least, the near future looks very bleak

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Militant fascism is likely going to be the death of me anyway, so I'd prefer to at least go down fighting it

    • duderium [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is amazing. You might like the movie Threads, it has an ending a little similar to this. It’s extremely bleak and depressing so be warned.