painted-bees:coffeeandcockatiels:derinthemadscientist:gooseweasel:derinthemadscientist:averyoddfishi
painted-bees:coffeeandcockatiels:derinthemadscientist:gooseweasel:derinthemadscientist:averyoddfishindeed:derinthemadscientist:bluecinnamonbunzuh:evanj2014:flyfella:leviathans-in-the-tardis:me-myself-and-will:carrot0nesie:ladies and gentlemen, the american education systemMy school apparently ran out of toilet paper a few weeks ago and my Spanish teacher was telling the girls to keep a roll in their purses and the guys to keep a roll in our backpacks. North American Education system.this is basically any public school in the world tbhbet the football teams have new equiptment thoughWhoop there it isNo I’m not even kidding I bet my life that there is equipment and a well managed field for the football team. Probably a good baseball and basketball team for guys. Other sports not so much.This is NOT any public schooling system in the world! Australian public schools do not have this problem! How the fuck does a school not afford basic bathroom amenities?! If that happened here there would be an immediate school funding revision campaign! I assume you guys are joking about the football teams because there’s no way overblown American sports movies are real. Does your government just… not fund schools? A running joke in my high school is “…but we can’t afford paper!” because a few years ago, my entire school system had us recycling each and every scrap and refusing to pay to get teachers copier paper. We were all asked to bring in our own paper, because school just wasn’t going to provide paper anything. Ironically, same year the football field was renovated.That…That can’t possibly be right. My high school had chunks of the ceiling falling down periodically, because of water and mold damage. I remember being in the gym for basketball practice and a huge grate fell down and scared the crap out of us. No one was ever hurt, and the state health department declared the levels of mold to be “not immediately dangerous” and so it was left alone. They once had to close down an entire section of hallway and stairs because one year, the toilets flooded on the second floor and soaked into the ceiling and walls. The next year, a chunk of ceiling fell out right below that, and the toxic variety of black mold was found. Again, the levels were “not dangerous” so they blocked off the area for a few weeks (making it impossible to get to class on time) until it was “cleaned up”. There were no windows, because when the school was built it was right next to an international airport (that has since moved) and the noise was too much at the time. So in order to keep the air flowing, they pumped air conditioning year round, including winter. And yes- the football field was in fact completely renovated before the buildings were even touched. 5 years prior to the original start date of high school building renovations. Also, while the football field was built with out a single hiccup, the school renovation was actually stopped after it started and halted for 4 years because the town didn’t want to spend the money on it. People argued that taxes shouldn’t be raised for that since they felt the buildings were fine as they were. Welcome to American public schools. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOUR SCHOOL SYSTEM??FOOTBALLOVERT RELIGIOUS LOBBYINGSCHOOL SHOOTINGSCRUMBLING BUILDINGS AND NO SOAPDO YOU LIVE IN A SEMI-DYSTOPIAN NOVELYes, actually.When people here suggest that america is some bastion of first world excellence, I kinda roll my eyes a lot. -- source link