Jesus Christ I thought America was the worst at everything among first world countries but I just found out about school fees in Australia and I'm so mad.
Jesus Christ I thought America was the worst at everything among first world countries but I just found out about school fees in Australia and I'm so mad.
Either my mom hid this shit from me or I was more blessed than I thought, probably the later. Only thing I remember costing money was field trips. Oh and there was a home ec project in my middle school we had to pay for and I threw a big autistic fit about it until the agreed to let me have it for free lmao.
it definitely depends where you're at in the states, but to be clear my district wasn't even "bad". high-ranked in the state & country if you judge by like test scores and stuff, physically safe & mostly "good neighborhoods". yet everything was old, cost money, tons of empty classrooms, poor students get fucked over, & god help you if you had any special needs. god help you if you tried to be a teacher, like every fresh teacher burned out in a year or less lmao
slowly realizing my answer to all those radicalization threads
Maybe New England schools are better off or something (or at least Massachusetts and New Hampshire ones?). Not that there still aren't massive problems with the state of public ed, but my school experience was largely not to bad besides bullying issues. Some teachers were better than others, but none stick out to me as horrible and I have no memories of experiencing teacher-based ableism, which you think I would right? Maybe I just don't remember it or didn't process certain teacher behaviors as that though.
Worst thing I experienced besides bullying was when my mom put me in a Montessori charter school and they didn't have a special ed program and had to try to build it from scratch around just me. That went poorly, besides Montessori did NOT work for me in the slightest, I just goofed off all day lmao. I was back in regular public school before the end of that year.