This is genuinely hilarious. I hope they're dressed like greasers too.
Depends wether they flip heads or tails as they put on their school uniforms
I thought we were doing the roaring 20's and not the 50's? I want IT Girls and flappers not coin boys.
That sub is genuinely a distilled stew of the clueless cruelty of school teachers in the imperial core
Glad someone is fighting the good fight against the greatest enemies of the proletariat: teachers and bed times
The sub is legit weird. It's an odd mix of overly-exploited teachers with a kind heart and a good head on their shoulders sharing trauma or challenges or the frustration about systemic issues and then just old-school regan-era "kill the fuckers" type republicans complaining about adhd
Its not that weird when you understand it mostly functions as a vent sub for teachers. I used to be subbed, and it was sometimes cathartic, but eventually it was just too doomery
I get the venting part, it's just weird to me that the mix doesn't seem to lead to conflicts
They're probably used to dealing with almost that exact mix in school when they're in the teacher's lounge.
Its an honourable fight. My teachers made me miserable by bullying the shit out of me and my parents sent me to bed at 7pm until i was 18.
I will continue fighting until teachers and bed times are abolished.
Let's be fair, excessively punitive teachers can really fuck kids over
I always wonder what people's childhoods were like that they trivialize criticisms of compulsory schooling.
Now that I'm home and can charge my phone, a longer response. Calling teachers cruel is not a principled critique of schooling, compulsory or otherwise. It's a lib-brained take to think that systemic and structural issues are a result of the individual virtue of people involved
I always wonder what people's childhoods were like
Fuck off
It's a lib-brained take to think that systemic and structural issues are a result of the individual virtue of people involved
Funny this is the exact way that sub treats student behaviour, but it's the critique of this that's lib apparently
That take on student behavior is both bad and cringe, and so is the critique
You can just admit you got prickly because you assumed a criticism of a bunch of r*dditors was a criticism of teachers writ large
I'm absolutely fine with admitting that, if that was your intention. I've seen quite a bit of unprincipled teacher bashing on Hexbear before and I'll call it out when I see it.
Yes, but then you responded to me after I responded to someone else in the thread, so I didn't think we were on the same page. I'm going to chalk it up to a misunderstanding and move on
The problem is not that teachers individually are authoritarian, but that the education system is and can only be authoritarian under capitalism. Also, I only invite people to send me Foucault, something which, crucially, you have never done
Also, I only invite people to send me Foucault, something which, crucially, you have never done
"You Foucault!" - Matt Christman (PBUH) to a tradcath
Does that count sir?
IME the sub is filled with libs with a purely individualist perspective on the behaviour of the students they whine about. There is no conception that there are greater material and social forces that might maximize the chance that certain kids act out while other kids are polite and do all their homework without asking. Instead they're putting the blame on literal children and then don't understand why that might actually make at-risk kids display antisocial behaviour.
They understand it starts at home but they never seem to wonder why it starts in some homes and not others. What are the material reasons why some parents are able to give their children a lot of attention, support, counselling and care while other parents aren't? Blaming parents is basically the same thing as blaming children at a certain point.
Teachers just don’t have the power to do anything about it
Teachers have the power to deal with the children compassionately, rather than blame them for being bad individuals
Yeah it's such a weirdly tight-assed response to some obviously funny tomfoolery. All it would take is for the teacher to be in on it as well. Start flipping your own coin, start calling heads or tails.
Right, the teachers joining in on it and trying to be cool would be the quickest way to make them stop doing it.
I would literally just get a two heads sided coin and flip it myself.
Oh yeah it's practically a given that I would flip a coin to determine the lesson plan, then just do what I was going to do anyway because it's not like any of them could see how it landed.
Get a fresh quarter you can feel the orientation of in a closed fist and either flip over onto palm or open your hand to match your call.
E: teach em early why the nfl toss is like that.
You can also mark one side with something innocuous like a scratch (not even Twoface level) if hunting for a fresh quarter is too much.
oh youre a coin boy? that's cute, i'm a
professional con artistNew romantic heist thriller - Coin Boys & Con Artists
Can't wait till they start putting on poisoned lipstick and kissing politicians to death.
Or wearing a big fish bowl over their heads and robbing banks to fund prolonging the life of their cryogenically preserved wives.
They'll start off simple, like asking the teacher riddles, but it'll soon get out of hand
Trying to do Riddler, but its just increasingly problematic Jim Carry impersonations.
Teach the kids GURPS while they're young and have them roll 3D6
Nothing to worry about until they also show up with a cattle gun and ask the teacher to "call it" imo.
They might be using this to spice up their version of the choking game, so we're like a quarter of the way there.
im a coin toss hustler. I get people in bars to wager on a coin toss and if i lose i just pull the old, “what do you say we up the ante?” then i just rinse and repeat until theyve thrown away thousands.
my trick: i act like a novice, but ive been flipping coins since I was 5
I mean yeah, I'd take a class entirely of "coin boys" over having two Tate fans.
Imagine the cascading tinging sounds of coins tossing up and down all class, with all of them collectively distracted by their adherence to a shared collective habit.
Still way better than even one domestic violence and human trafficking LARPer.
This is chuuni-ism but western. They're harmless kids roleplaying to be cool and completely not understanding that it's not really cool. They're hurting nobody though so ehhh let them be.
I'd consider not doing work as a bit (rather than for a practical reason) to be not great
Oh sure. But they're dumb kids being dumb kids. I don't know what you can do with this behaviour other than treat it like anyone not doing work. They'll quickly stop living by the coin if it results in things they don't like.
One of the few things i regret i n my life is doing schoolwork. Once you grow up you realize its wasted time and you should not have done any of it.
I really hope this dies off soon. I haven't seen anything online about this when I googled it, so I'm guessing it's just a local friend group thing, unless one of you has some more info...
It's like the Hexbear signal lit up the sky!
We are called!I support the coin boys. Concentsus is teach can suck our pennies.
style coin toss. 
