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tokillthedragon:sashibunbun:association-of-free-people:snowyanna:215-to-fit:rustboro-city:svviggle:kastortheunlockable:stunningpicture:My 7 year old son was shot down by his 1st grade teacherThe american public education system in a nutshell thoMy third grade teacher actually had a conversation with my mom that I was reading to well and told her to stop having me read at homeMy first grade teacher said that it was problematic that I was reading ahead of the rest of the kids in my grade and asked my parents to stop letting me read Harry Potter.My fourth grade teacher thought it was wrong for my dad to be teaching me complex math because it fascinated me.My elementary school music teacher hated the way my piano teacher taught me, and how I was more advanced than many of her students, and so told me, in front of my peers and my mother, that I was not good enough to participate in the state solo festival. She would not give me the form. We had to procure it from the district instead. She also hated how I excelled at reading and playing music for the recorder, and so she refused to give me my “belts” (colored beads to signify our level) and humiliated me in front of the class repeatedly.My eighth grade algebra teacher used to fail me on take home tests because I didn’t solve problems exactly the way she showed us in class; I used methods that we had learned for other types of problems that also applied to these. She took points off my tests because I didn’t bring a calculator even though I got 100% without it, because I was able to do it by hand. I had to call my father, who is an engineer, down to the school to shout her down and give me back my A in the class.My 10th grade Spanish teacher yelled at me in front of the class numerous times because she didn’t like the way I took notes; she thought that since I didn’t write every word off the slide, I wasn’t getting it all down. I had to explain to her that people who have taken advanced courses, like AP or IB classes, know that in a fast-paced learning environment you need to take quick shorthand notes that contain the necessary information rather than wasting time writing every word. She almost gave me detention.My 11th grade English teacher gave me a poor mark on my first short essay because she believed that I was looking up unnecessarily complex words in a thesaurus to try and get better marks. The phrases in question: “laced with expletives” and “bombarded”. She wouldn’t hear any defense from me.My 11th grade history teacher failed me on an essay about the 1950s because I misread the prompt. Except the prompt wasn’t words; it was a political cartoon. One of the figures was clearly president Eisenhower, but the other I couldn’t place. My teacher would not tell us who it was. I labelled him as the governor of Little Rock Arkansas during the integration period, and wrote an essay about that subject. My teacher said that no, it was Joseph McCarthy, and that there was a small picture of the man in our textbook and therefore I should have recognized him instantly. Half the class, apparently, did not.The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it’s here to keep us in line and silent. It’s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don’t let it win.“The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it’s here to keep us in line and silent. It’s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don’t let it win.“ Fun story time. I loved to read. So much so, I was reading chapter books in kindergarden. I broke the record for reading points in elementary school. They actually had to start making up prizes for me. No one in the history of the school had ever read so many books in a year. Basically, my class liked me because I won those suckers pizza parties in my spare time.In second grade, I had a teacher named Ms. Mobley who believed all children should be average. She flat out told my father that all children should make C’s, and should never strive for more than that.Not only was she insane, she also would routinely spell things wrong for us to copy for our spelling tests. Later, when we spelled those words wrong on the test, she would mark us off. Yes, our own teacher was sabotaging us.I should have been tested for gifted classes, but I was not. Why? Ms. Mobley didn’t believe in “gifted” children.This teacher had tenure and could not be fired.Never forget.“The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it’s here to keep us in line and silent. It’s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don’t let it win.“ Got into a school choice / voucher debate with a couple who were both public school teachers. By the end their argument had collapsed and they gave up trying to defend the failing educational system. When I’d made the observation that the system is holding families who justifiably demand better hostage, they pivoted to “what about the children left behind?”. This summed up their political mentality for me. It wasn’t about the kids who could escape a cycle of poverty by combining their values and work ethic with opportunity, it was about restraining them for ill defined reasons on behalf of the “common good”. They were expressing a perverse sense of equality which is in reality an excuse and euphemism for oppression. >voucher systemDud you mean publically funded school, except only the rich or lucky get an education worth a damn?I got suspended in the fifth grade from my private school because I wanted to read real novels instead of kids books and they wouldn’t let me so I called my teacher crazy. I didn’t find out until recently that I was reading at a college level in the third grade but the school just wanted to hold me back from books I’d actually enjoy. I was reading short chapter books in kindergarten, when everyone else was still learning the alphabet, and I was SO BORED.And the teacher hated me because of that. She found all sorts of excuses to keep me inside and sitting at my desk during recess. -- source link