bonus points if you get banned for sharing it

i'll start: most "vote blue no matter who" liberals are actually good people (not including terminally online liberals as anyone who is terminally online is a bad person)

  • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Teachers, outside of a small percentage of hyperchuds, are the only people that actually give a shit about kids and sacrifice a huge amount of their time to try and keep kids out of prison. The institution of public education is absolutely designed to fail in the US and many other "first-world" countries but that's not because of the teachers. Through strikes and contract negotiations they fight for better standards. The administration and think-tanks are the ones trying to cut costs and do the bare minimum needed to train perfect worker drones that never question authority. I have a friend who teaches that spends up to 5 hours after school helping people that are falling behind and have heard tons of stories of teachers similarly working for free.

    • ratboy [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Not to mention that in some cases teachers are the only healthy, secure adult relationships, that kids have. Some kids come from really fucked up abusive homes and having one teacher cheer that kid on can change their whole lives.

      • FishLake@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        As a teacher I can tell you I am not paid nearly enough by the CIA to give a shit about rich kids. Gimme a solidified pile of untreated ADHD and poverty any day of the week if it prevents me from having to interact with Tanner’s insufferable stay-at-home mother.