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[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 80 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Cracker teacher in a predominantly black school.

mad at a 12 year old with diagnosed but unmedicated ADHD for stating that they did not understand what they did wrong.

Describing children as ontologically evil and wishing imprisonment upon them.

Refusing to state what the child supposedly did wrong because they know they'll get dragged for it.

Already retired and posting ragebait for karma

Yeah, that's Reddit for ya

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There’s an alarming number of teachers like this in the real world, as well.

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, of course there are. But between hope and my own experience as an educator, I have to believe they're not the majority. These salty fucks typically burn out hard and fast, or they were already like 2 years from retirement when they start going nuclear like this.

On Reddit, it's almost always some dude like this one who sees an unusually high salary for the region at an underserved urban school and then gets mad when their (typically Authoritarian) classroom management style doesn't end up working.

[–] Bakzik@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, they exist.

Had a bunch of them in elementary.

It was also the height of neoliberal educational policy, so oppressive teachers + pushing competition between students were the norm...

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely not the majority, but in my experience, it’s very difficult to change even when a situation is out of control.

[–] CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Freudian slip with “whiteness karma” too

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Autocorrect coming in clutch with the "telling on yourself" assist.

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds about white.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 56 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The only reason a lot of kids aren't in prison is that they aren't old enough. Yet.

So anyway I'm a complete psycho.

How has reddit gotten WORSE over the years?

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 49 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"But the school to prison pipeline," they always say. Idk man, I feel like this deflects the blame away from actual criminals.

What a fascinating thing to say. Why don't you tell it to that wall over there? how-compelling

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 44 points 2 weeks ago

What a mindset to view the children in your care as hardened criminals that deserve to be trafficked to prison.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

Criminal childrenwhat-the-hell

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

Lots of left spaces have gotten banned

Lots of front page sites have become more bot/zionist/racist infested

Not to mention, the site's userbase has been in decline for years

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I choose to believe that's just a bot trained on comment data. 🤢

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 48 points 2 weeks ago

I have taught long enough to whiteness karma work it’s magic though.

hell of a freudian slip

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Remember the "Are teachers cops" struggle session?

This is the sort of thing that makes me fall on the side of "yes."

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 40 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a centrist, teachers have systemic cop powers but there's a lot of them that are good enough and even more that aren't actively harmful that it deserves a case by case look

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago

I disagree; OP and the most upvoted comment are definitely assholes, but the rest of the comments are supportive of the kid, confused as to what OP found objectionable or directly calling out OP for being a shitty teacher who hates kids.

I don't think you can generalize all the teachers on the sub based on OP, as bad as they seem.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Schools are all advanced panopticons. Through decades of grants in the wake of school shootings, all schools are working towards full observational coverage of their grounds. Administrations have become reliant on security cameras as a tool for discipline. Through laws like the Child Online Protection Act advanced internet surveillance systems have been deployed to districts far and wide. Initially built for censorship, they eventually evolved into surveillance tools as well, under the guise of safety. Every email sent, website visited, and every movement through hallways and in some cases in classrooms are monitored.

The prisonification of schools has been going on for decades. The last major advancement of this process was the creation of the "School Resource Officer" which is typically filled by actual cops. In some districts these cops are integrated within the discipline pipeline. They have and will continue to criminally charge students with crimes for behavior in schools, and their presence will encourage students, parents, faculty and staff to press charges against other students. It was only a matter of time before teachers became cops. The panopticon has been erected around them, and they have been transformed into its wardens.

The severity of this transformation will very from district to district and state to state. But these systems will disenfranchise kids across class lines and racial lines.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago

The last major advancement of this process was the creation of the "School Resource Officer" which is typically filled by actual cops.

It's hardly a new development. We had armed and uniformed cops with permanent offices in our local schools over 40 years ago. Their primary role—from our perspective as students, at least—was to arrest native kids, and gently scold white boys who "smoked weed at home" (read: were the actual drug traffickers).

[–] penitentkulak@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The prisonification of schools has been going on for decades.

this reminded me of this video, which describes how the prisonification/panoptification (which goes as far as the physical layout of schools) also encourages further violence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usSfgHGEGxQ

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Bakzik@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean, modern schools took their model from factories. Preparing workers for schedule work, norms, hygiene, hierarchy, and all that.

So, the "advanced panopticons" is the logical evolution with the present day technologies. At least in the "first world", after 9/11 and all that.

We both know is more complex, but yeah. Capitalism, as we all know in here, is fucked up.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago

This teacher is just an asshole but the relationship between teachers and students is complex and most of the issues are systemic. In the same way that a retail or food service worker may hate their customers because of how some customers act, it should not be surprising when teachers may come to hate 'students' in the abstract when the students are what cause them the most difficulty on a day to day basis. Now some teachers are able to introspect and understand that the students themselves are not the root cause of these problems.

People outside of education often think teachers have control over their schools and students. However that control is mostly a facade, teachers increasingly feel powerless in their own classrooms as society cuts more and more support positions forcing teachers to pick up the slack. Students with exceptional learning or behavioural needs are left in overcrowded classrooms and obviously this causes problems that are not the fault of these students.

Most teachers are only in the system because they care about the kids. I wouldn't look at the teachers subreddit and expect a real look at how these teachers think. Most (not this guy) are mainly venting and coping using dark humour as the system collapses around them, much like how outsiders are surprised at how medical workers use dark humour to cope.

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I basically never believe "ermahgerd, look what wacky thing a student put on their worksheet!1!" posts, feel like upvote-farming and easy enough to fake.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

I have taught long enough to whiteness karma work it’s magic though.

Hmm.

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I refuse to believe the r/teachers sub is anything more than fanfic

For my own sanity, I’m aware teachers do think like this, I had some real stinkers

[–] prole@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wtf is even wrong here? Am I missing something? The handwriting makes me think this is a pretty young kid, but also the whole thing feels like rage bait or something

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Could be rage bait for Karma farming or something like that

Edit: Idk, snooped their account cause I’m bored at work, allegedly they quit teaching just to complain and argue with people about being an uber driver on reddit. Probably just an asshole who fell for the rage bait and posted it to the teaching sub. Looks like a local ranting spot for them; I, the sophisticate, use the general mega for that

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

FWIW the overwhelming majority of teachers on Reddit seem genuinely concerned for the well being of their kids.

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Only the neurotypical kids.

Reddit teachers are a lot like reddit nurses. They hate the disabled

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nothing will beat the r/Professors post about how their student is a weak crybaby for asking for an extension because their mother was dying in the hospital and how all their students with accommodations were faking it because they’re lazy and are useless burdens that need to be expelled

Expressing nazi opinions on neurodivergent people is socially acceptable.

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Lol holy shit.

Meanwhile I give (gave if this layoff sticks) extensions out to the registrar's deadline. What's the point of penalizing ppl for life, exactly?

[–] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah the main complaints I see are about lack of support from administration, insane parents, and children that can’t focus/read because of screens

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

lack of support from administration

This is putting it very mildly. A lot of posts I've read depict administration as openly hostile to the teachers.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck this person in particular

[–] MizuTama@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Once had a reddit teacher tell me they knew more about black people and common struggles we face than me cuz they taught black kids

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

a lot of teachers are unfortunately more committed and emotionally attached to schooling than to pedagogy

[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

"We LiVe In A meRitOCRacY"

The meritocracy in question:

I remember watching Making a Murderer with my non-teaching partner and she was saying 'I can't believe the police based so much on a bad vibe'. I was like babe, a bad vibe is my whole profession.