Tag: school

yea i get what ur saying. schools are really paranoid about kids being assaulted, even thou nothing they do is rlly effective aylmao.

I think like.. preventing students from having unmonitored communication with teachers/staff/coaches is far more effective. Like I’m only allowed to email or call my coaches to prevent.. Relationships. I don’t think me sharing the bathroom with my history teacher from 10th grade is as likely to lead to Shenanigans as having a text conversation with my coach. Not that I think either would happen, but.

And like, idk, if a teacher DID want to have a Relationship with a student, doing it in a single-stall bathroom would make a lot more sense anyway.

But like, if something is going to happen it’s going to happen and there’s only so much schools can do about it.

imma be real with you, i think your school is just weird. a lot of school boards require teachers to have a seperate bathroom and even without that most schools still have seperate bathrooms for teachers

It might be my district. I’ve never been in a school where teachers couldn’t use the same bathrooms as students.

But like, I really don’t care. Like I don’t see why it matters one way or the other if teachers are allowed in or not. The vast majority of teachers are just going to take care of their business and then leave.

Plus, there are reasons other than using it that a teacher/staff could be in the bathroom. Students who can’t use the bathroom by themselves. Making sure there’s no funny business (like doing drugs).

Like, maybe my school is weird. I’ve never gone to a school with metal detectors, but I know there are some around here. There are a lot of other standard school things I’ve never had to deal with and in some ways I consider myself lucky for that.

But yeah, I don’t really see why whether teachers are in the bathroom or not should matter. If they’re a predator risk, maybe they shouldn’t be in a building with minors? Idk lol.

tybalt-you-saucy-boi:

iicraft505:

tybalt-you-saucy-boi:

geekandmisandry:

Wait so a grown man can demand to see the genitals of a 15 year old and that’s just… Cool with some people as long as it is in the name of transphobia??

Anyway, that predator is on paid leave while the school investigates.

I’m pretty sure teachers aren’t even allowed in the bathrooms that students use either.

Uh why wouldn’t they be? At my school there are single stall bathrooms, but I see teachers/staff in the bathroom all the time.

But regardless, really, who IS harassing who. I think I’ve heard of maybe one trans person actually being predatory in a bathroom, almost all trans people just want to get in and out without being harassed.

What? Teachers and students share bathrooms in the US? What

..yeah.. why wouldn’t we? I HIGHLY doubt it’s a US vs. Canada thing though. Both countries are far to big (Canada more in size, but) to expect that type of unity either way. Unless it’s by “federal” law in Canada I guess. But even then, I’m sure there are schools in the US where we don’t share bathrooms.

We also have windows on classroom doors. Usually they’re covered up because code red (drills, I don’t think I’ve ever been in an actual code red and it’s just easier that way, or because there’s always that idiot wandering the halls (less so this year because of a new tardy policy but) who thinks it’s just Hilarious to make faces through the window.

I just don’t think it’s really been an issue here ever? People are in and out the bathrooms all the time, there’s hardly time to poop in peace, let alone be a predator. Then again, people do vape/smoke in the bathrooms, so.

cantanopeshitthatwastaken:

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

skullvis:

When you understand that kids and teenagers being salty about literary symbolic analysis comes from a very real place of annoyance and frustration at some teachers for being over-bearing and pretentious in their projecting of symbolism onto every facet of a story but you also understand that literary analysis and critical thinking in regards to symbolism is extremely important and deserves to be not only taught in schools, but actively used by writers when examining their own work to see if they might have used symbolism unintentionally and to make sure that they are using symbolism effectively:

schizoaffectiveboy:

Shout out to mentally ill people who dropped out of school

– shout out to the kids who were “so bright” and ‘heading somewhere” and had to drop out because school was too much to handle along with mental illness

– shout out to the kids who struggled to get where they got before they dropped out

– shout out to the kids who tried and tried and tried and still couldn’t finish

you aren’t unintelligent because you dropped out of school, you aren’t a delinquent or a bad person because you dropped out of school, just because you did what you had to doesn’t make you a bad person

official-missouri:

Someone: “my school experience was horrible and literally made me want to die every single day, and I was tortured and bullied all throughout it. I’m never putting my kids through that”

Someone who wasn’t asked: “well mine was puppies and rainbows and got to eat ice cream every day and I loved it! you should never homeschool your kids they’ll become anti social weirdos!”

jumpingjacktrash:

thepioden:

shredsandpatches:

prismatic-bell:

saoirseronanswife:

“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass

In this essay, this writer will explore the implications of pretending that one’s own personal view is not part of one’s essay, and the inaccessibility of academia related to established custom of artificial detachment.

In this essay, I will demonstrate that the blanket ban on first-person pronouns in high-school and some university English classes is poorly understood and hastily adopted as a result. I will further illustrate that it is a mere substitute for explaining to inexperienced writers that excessive use of phrases like “I think” or “I believe” is unnecessary and rhetorically weakens academic writing, and that opinions expressed in an essay are already assumed to be those of the author. Finally, I will address strategies for effectively conveying that information to students, who often find it difficult to grasp.

In this essay, passive voice will be used throughout in order to distance the work done from any researchers, or, in reality, kind of imply all experiments were done by magical lab gremlins and the results were simply recorded. 

in this essay, enlightenment will descend upon you without the agency of any living being. you will know things, yet know not how you know.

prepare yourself. it begins.

You write with “I” in some types of essays but in others it weakens what you’re saying and idk why you guys take that so personally

If I remember correctly it’s that when you’re writing the kind of essays that you write in school it’s supposed to be objective? And if you use “I” it’s not, it’s clearly opinion? Of course it’s all opinion. But like.

I don’t get it. Just don’t use I. It’s not hard. It doesn’t need to be passive?

Anyway it’s probably a rule adopted in school because of little actual merit to writing that way, but it’s probably easier in a setting where a fair number of the writers have a very loose grasp of grammar for whatever reason.

fallenprussiansoldier:

full-moon-phoenix:

akira-kurusu-loves-you:

If your child’s grades are dropping

DO NOT:

  • Yell at them for three hours
  • Take away their devices and look through them
  • Make them sit in their rooms in silent and do their homework alone
  • Side with the teacher and not get your child’s side of the story
  • Tell them that their grades are the most important thing they should worry about

INSTEAD:

  • Ask if they’re having trouble with other students or teachers
  • Sit down with them and help them with what they don’t understand
  • Speak calmly instead of yelling
  • Don’t invade their privacy by looking through their devices
  • Don’t take away their hobbies as punishment
  • Never make them feel unsafe or unable to trust you

This has been a message from a struggling high school junior that wishes their own parents actually did this stuff.

Bonus: Don’t look through their freaking backpacks. Chances are they know damn well they have loads of unfinished papers and the stress of knowing is so overwhelming they don’t even wanna look at it.

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