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I have a bad tendency to compare myself as better or worse to others albeit subconsciously which is something that's really bad for my self esteem and can sometimes make me seem like an asshole and, thinking it through, but can't help but feel that this is an inherent result of a education system that rates people with quantifiable numbers of who's better or worse and just the overall pressure given into students to get good grades.
Add that to just societal expectations and the way people who underperform tends to be represented in media and well, you got a lot of people who have internalized comparing themselves to others and considering themselves inherently better or worse to others which in the long run is such a damaging mindset to not only your self esteem but also just physically you.
Life isn't a competition, you aren't underperforming and we are all just doing our own stuff and I think the sooner we realize that life can be lived beyond just a simple number that qualifies your human worth, the sooner I think we will start getting better as people.
auDHD culture is being so damn angry at the education system because they don't even manage to teach the neurotypical kids how to work with their brains instead of against them, let alone neurodivergent students
reblog if you think these are all valid reasons for a student or an employee to take a day off from their school or their job without their grades or paycheck being affected in any way:
- period cramps
- exhaustion, be it mental or physical
- depression, anxiety, and other mental health related issues
reblog if you think these are all valid reasons for a student or an employee to take a day off from their school or their job without their grades or paycheck being affected in any way:
- period cramps
- exhaustion, be it mental or physical
- depression, anxiety, and other mental health related issues
Rambling timeeeee
Scholarships are fucking stupid. Free education is something I'm all for, but it only being given to the people who normally need it the least is just plain stupidity. Like, free education is a huge W, but they give it to the sport athletes who excel athletically, and they occasionally give them to kids who excel academically. Now this is just stupid bc
Its giving them to kids who are already doing amazing
Most athletes want to go into a career branch that doesn't require a college degree
Scholarships are given away without any fuck on whether or not you actually need them, or if ur rich and genuinely don't need it
The education system itself is already flawed with its curriculum, so the kids who are smart in things the curriculum doesn't encourage are just ignored for academic scholarships
Now bc nothing pisses me off more that whining without at least trying to help, here's a (probably flawed) rework of scholarships
Make college free. Increase how much money they get from the government, and make it free for everyone. Public schools can do it, so can college
Instead of financial assistance, have scholarships allow you to take more advanced classes in whatever you excell in
Remove (or reduce) sports scholarships
This is why it’s so hard.
To every day: pull myself out of bed and go to school. To
To every year: go through finals season
Every single class I don’t care about, every single heartbreaking day I am forced to live through science classes I’ll never use, every single math class that could’ve been a half year, but is instead 3.
I have failing grades in all my classes because I can’t suffer through getting good grades in 2.
And if I fail 2 classes I’ve failed all of school, so why bother?
A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:
[Text transcript at the end of the screenshots]
I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.
Most classroom practice is astrology.
Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.
We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.
Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.
Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.
What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.
Some definitions:
Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.
Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.
Things we (scholars) DO know:
-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.
-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).
-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.
Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.
Maintaining the status quo? Nope.
Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.
If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.
They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.
And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.
For what?
It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.
WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.
We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.
The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?
Education is all about capitalism.
"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.
THAT is why modern education is a failure.
Its basic premise is monstrous.
"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"
Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.
By Ted Rall
La Times Oct. 3, 2013
Hahaha education system be like "I don't care if students don't learn how to take care of finances or do even basic first-aid but boy I'll definitely make them learn how to make angles with a compass cause what if all the protractors in the world go missing???"
WHY DO YOU NEED TO CONSTRUCT ANGLES WHEN PROTRACTORS ARE LITERALLY EXIST WHY ARE WE OBSESSED WITH MAKING STUDENTS' LIVES A LIVING HELL
“Shouldn’t we just put the lives of students, teachers, and staff on the line so the rest of us can get back to normal” is truly the biggest galaxy brain take of 2020, and that was a tough competition
A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:
[Text transcript at the end of the screenshots]
I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.
Most classroom practice is astrology.
Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.
We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.
Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.
Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.
What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.
Some definitions:
Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.
Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.
Things we (scholars) DO know:
-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.
-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).
-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.
Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.
Maintaining the status quo? Nope.
Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.
If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.
They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.
And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.
For what?
It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.
WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.
We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.
The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?
Education is all about capitalism.
"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.
THAT is why modern education is a failure.
Its basic premise is monstrous.
"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"
Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.
The education system has fucked me up so bad, like what do you mean I feel guilty for sleeping 8 hours?
The only reason I have free time now is because I decided doing biology homework wasn't worth it
Because homework/pop quiz only count 10% of the final grade, and my teacher sends 20+ exercises for each unit and we go through 8 units each trimester and we have at least 2 pop quizzes, so I would spend so much time doing homework just for it to count 0,005 or smth like tht
reblog if you think these are all valid reasons for a student or an employee to take a day off from their school or their job without their grades or paycheck being affected in any way:
- period cramps
- exhaustion, be it mental or physical
- depression, anxiety, and other mental health related issues
At this point, my trust issues are at peak because of NTA 🤡
Ninth Classroom...
I bounced from school-to-school for a while before landing…
I was placed in a pull-out position where I would work with English Language Learners…
They were new to the country and new to the school…
A lot of the students were true beginners unable to associate phoneme to letter…
It was a lot of work, considering I only see them twice a week for half an hour at most…
Hybrid classes…come to school two days…go virtual three…
Except they don’t show up and do no work…
Fortunately, I’m not a ‘real’ teacher yet…
They only get some additional language support from me…completely homework free.
Of if they needed to talk…I was always willing to listen.
The Pandemic is hard on all of us…
Forget your standards and your deadlines…
Let children be children…
Things 13 years of school taught me
How to answer questions to very tight specifications
How to conform to a heteronormative, neurotypical, fully-abled, conservative Christian ideal
How to tie a tie
Things 13 years of school didn't teach me
How to recognise mental illness in myself or others
First aid??? Of any kind????
Grammar??? Beyond?? The very very basics? Girlie, why did we never talk about the oxford comma (my beloved)
Sex education beyond "don't do it"
How to access safe abortion
How to finance. At all.
How to recognise toxic/abusive relationships/situations (they did teach me how to spot a cult, I'll give them that)
At what point you go to the frickin' doctor?
Students in Matamoros, Mexico weren't getting much out of school -- until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential.
"Many neurodivergent and disabled people were tragically failed by their educational system and their trauma deserves all sorts of validation" and "Educational system sets up teachers to fail at fulfilling those need and blaming the teachers alone is not a fair judgement of this situation" are two statements that can and should coexist