idlewildly:therealraewest:lazerdoesfeminism:robotsandfrippary:xenoqueer:sandersstudies:holy-jeez-its
idlewildly:therealraewest:lazerdoesfeminism:robotsandfrippary:xenoqueer:sandersstudies:holy-jeez-its-matt:whyyoustabbedme:Not to mention the fact that Mrs. White isn’t qualified to teach.She should be required to take a remedial English course.“I have went”? please. It’s “I have gone”, Mrs. White. first, my kid would not sign anything without me seeing it first. 2nd, upon seeing it i would be at the superintendant’s office the next morning.then we would speak to the teacher. black folk gotta nip it in the bud.Dont let your children be controlled like this. I remember back when I was in school my mom always told me “if you really need to use the bathroom or attend to an emergency and the teacher won’t let you, then just leave the classroom and I’ll deal with teacher and principle” Mom had my back If I was this kid I would use up those passes and then just fuckin’ throw up or get a severe nosebleed in the classroom and then refuse to leave because “sorry, I can’t go to the nurse, I already used up my two passes for the fucking MONTH” There was a student at my high school, who we will call John Doe, who actually did that. When teachers gave him a limited number of bathroom allowances (usually 3 per semester, which was the standard at my school), he would use them in the first week, and then induce vomitting my eating rotten food he found around the school garbage cans. If teachers refused to let him go, he would just throw up on something they had to touch. Light switches, keyboards, whatever was available.Instead of making admin do anything about this toxic policy, they just doubled down harder, to the extent that one girl politely informed a teacher that she felt like she might be about to have a seizure and could she go to the nurse, please. She was denied, sat back down at her desk, and promptly passed out and concussed herself on the concrete floor when she fell. Another girl had severe vertigo-induced fainting, could not get a teacher to excuse her from a phys ed class, and fell off a monkey bars and split her head open, and nearly lost an eye because her glasses broke when she landed.A student with, I believe, diabetes had a severe blood sugar drop and tried to eat a candy bar in a class with a “no food or drinks” rule. The candy bar was taken away, and she had to be taken out by EMTs. This kind of human rights abuse in public schools is not new. I graduated a full decade ago. I’m glad it’s being publically discussed again, (briefly around 2003-2005 this was also a popular subject of discussion). I hope that this time, concrete changes in policy are actually affected.My mother, who was a teacher, would have been on the warpath if this kind of thing had been implemented on me or my brother.this is so surreal to me like, in sweden (at least where I’m from) do you know what we do when we need to go to the bathroom?we just leave. it’s that simple. maybe if you feel like it, or if they’re in the middle of a lecture you might give a quiet excuse before going, but I’ve never asked for permission to go to the bathroom.and i shouldn’t have to.When Americans get to college we literally need to be told “if you need to use the restroom just go, don’t raise your hand and ask” because for the 12+ years prior we couldn’t use the restroom/leave for the nurse’s office/get a drink of water without explicit permission, otherwise we would get written up or given detentions or whatever else(I’m also from Sweden.) With most of the classes/teachers I had in primary/secondary school, the policy was that we’d raise a hand, wait our turn, and ask to go to the bathroom (or nurse/head office/whatever) and almost invariably we’d be let out right away. No hall pass, no nothing. It’s like we were trusted to be able to find the loo, use it, and get back to class in a timely manner without adult supervision – which, by the way, nearly everyone over the age of seven is.In high school (years 10-12 here), all my teachers were fine with us just getting up and going if we needed. Maybe just making sure the teacher saw and gave us nod or something first. Obviously, the polite thing to do was to wait until the teacher wasn’t actively lecturing/demonstrating something, so as not to miss important info or interrupt the class, but still. We wouldn’t get told off or anything if we had to leave in the middle of something.Surprise – children are people, and the way you treat people during their formative years is how they will think they deserve to be treated, and how they will think they’re supposed to treat others. Respect and trust can only be earned, not forced. American schools are like some sort of totalitarian regimes and it’s honestly scary.I was so lucky I didn’t like using public restrooms in high school I had tons of teachers who did this kind of shit. Sometimes our hall passes were only good for the entire semester. -- source link