Today she pulled me aside and said that she disagreed with what I had to say. I asked why and she said that she believed what defectors had wrote in their biographies (she didn't name any specific books). I didn't actually get to counter that (or respond to anything really) beyond the documentary (Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang) I linked in my email which she didn't watch apparently. She was respectful I guess. Should I respond with a critique of Escape from Camp 14 and In Order to Live or should I just brush it off?
I would disengage. A non-zero amount of teachers dream about being little cops, and I've absolutely seen teachers call in "wellness checks" and various other forms of state control as the modern version of House Unamerican Activities Comission. Her mind is made up, she's very content working as a propaganda arm of the state. Consider her a dangerously ideologically comitted liberal and engage other folks. She wants to hold all these convos in private so you can't even hold the conversation for the sake of the audience
Fuck that. It's just high school. What's she gonna do? Fail them for well cited arguments written well above the level expected by the curriculum? If anything go bigger and make it public. The consequences are like, nothing.
Literally call the cops on him depending on the climate of the local education board and police, which sounds not great
What cops? There is no crime here. If OP gets shitty grades based on their political views, bring it to the principal and ifnthat fails, the school board. Where are you getting cops from any of this?
You can literally just call the cops on comminists and say they're acting scary. Its not that hard lol. Theres no reason to be ruthlessly true to a person with authority over you who has ties to various institutions of state control. Every school has a "resource officer" for a reason
And what will the cop do to this minor charged with having an opinion different than their high school teacher? You're living in a paranoid fantasy dawg
Because cops are rational actors that never make up reasons to shit on communists? and Karens never exaggerate to danger people who threaten their world view?
The only thing to gain is to feel smart in front of your teacher, and at worst that teacher can choose to make your life MUCH harder for as long as you're FORCED to interact with them. I was put thru hell from a MATH teacher for "embarassing" them in front of the class by solving a problem different than they taught.
You can tell theres a bunch of embarassed Well Ackstually ass redditors in this thread. Paranoid fantasy my ass, fuck off.
Did the math teacher call the cops on you? You can't even be tried as an adult for most of high school. Chill.
you could just Google "teacher calls cops on student" and be met with enough stories to realize getting undue attention for being a "rebel" isnt always a great idea, especially when theres no material benefit, but I guess doing apologia for the education system to feel superior to someone online is easier. Its calls the school to prison pipeline for a reason. How many peoples first run in with the cops involves an "offense" during school?
I'll throw in the caveat I'm not American. I organized students against recruitment booths in the school and the consequences were that there stopped being recruitment booths in the school.
As far as googling teacher calls cops on students, the entire front page is about black kids who showed up late. White teachers who can't tell black people apart assumed they weren't students and called the cops. None were acrually inside the class or have any relations to opposing a teacher politically. This is racist Karen's in a panic cause black kids were knocking at the school door vs. a student being a good student despite the teachers opinion. Literally what will the cops do if called?