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Hey comrades!

My first time formatting text like this, sorry if I messed up!

I need help teaching kids at my new job, teaching at a primary school!

A primary school has hired me as a teacher! Small school in a village that has below 10 kids in each classes. They are struggling to find teachers to teach there (small village, mostly romani kids, challenging environment, etc.), and so they were happy to hire me even though I don't have my degree yet. I am starting roughly a month from now and I got hired to teach history, ethics, social studies, romani people's culture and something I can't really translate, but a dedicated class that is teaching kids about our country's and people's history (kinda right wing). I'd be teaching kids all the way from grade 3 to grade 8, their final one in primary school, pleas keep it in mind!

• Anti-communist material.

1. The material is clearly and blatantly anti-communist. How do I go about this? Do you think giving context to whatever the books claim is enough? Do you think by trying to provide extra information or saying that other people think about this differently is a good way to not only stay true to myself but be able to make them question things? How would you personally feel about being expected to "teach" these false claims to kids and having to witness the state manipulating history? I am aware this is not your problem, I am just curious. What tools do I have to make them be aware of this type of indoctrination? Do you think it would be risking the job if I'd say at certain claims, that the book is wrong on this? How do I overall navigate this, paying special attention to the fact that they are just kids? :::
   spoiler

• "KIP" (Complex Instruction Program).

2. Some christian school in the United Snakes made up a teaching method, which one of my Professor at Uni took and adopted to the hungarian schools. KIP is hated by all teachers I know for various reasons and apparently teachers have mostly stopped doing it in 2018. Nonetheless this is my first time being able to apply it if I want to. The university I am studying at thinks of this as the solution to all problems, which is idealist to say the least. Have any of y'all heard about this? It was made by these people: Article about the program itself and other sources to the papers I could find - 1; 2; 3

Do you have an opinion on this as well as, can you recommend me anything you think could help me teaching these young kids alternative to this (resources, teaching methods, etc)? The reason why I am asking this, because in the mighty EU, the best economic system possible and glorious western democracy, we still have many tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of kids growing up in absolute poverty (just in my country), meaning no food and clothing security. These kids' families are struggling to feed themselves, can not or only hardly find jobs (if they do it's a construction site job or the minimal wage jobs the local councils can offer them), and they do not have the ability to clothe themselves at all at times, not to mention not having clothes that fit the changing seasons (meaning wearing T-shirts and shorts in december, it's not unusual not being able to wash the clothes either, they can wear a fit for a month straight or with little variation until they can afford the cheapest replacements next month). As well as hygene is a problem. Now, I don't know what we all think about the Maslow pyramid, I guess it has been concluded as outdated by now many times, but I kinda get the part where: when we don't know what we can have for dinner tomorrow or we run out of money on the first day of getting it to hand, then we can kinda don't give a flying fuck about studying this or that. So, all in all, I'd be looking for ways to teach them something in this harsh environment they are facing. Sadly, in the parliament, on paper, these people just simply don't exist. Capitalism hides them and doesn't acknowledge them/hushes them away. These kids are dubbed as "dumb" and "lazy", while obviously the white kids are superior to them in all aspects, "hard working" and "smart". Essentially it's just plain racism of the whites against romanis. They are blamed for everyting. Everything is their fault, whether in the present or later on in life (while the white kids performance is the fault of the teachers, just to put it in context). Now, I despise saviour complex, so please be realistic. I am just mainly asking because I don't think frontal work is what they need (or it's the type of teaching method that can work), it's more so giving them love, care, and helping them out acquiring skills that they can use in their lives or later in school (which is not the likely scenario - only very small percentages go to high-schools). What I mostly had in mind is just to be human, empathetic, talk a lot with them and guide them to the best of my ability, sadly nobody is expecting anything of them, they are written off as useless and non-human by society and I am afraid, 35 years after we lost socialism, this looks to be an ever increasing trend, towards our minorities (mostly romani).

Overall, I just have noone to turn to with my worries. Some of it are real, some just might be inexperience or lack of confidence yet. If you have any opinions, criticizing or otherwise, please do share, anything to bounce off of helps. Suggestions to make the classes I am going to teach good and enjoyable, or things you think definitely should be taught (for example in the romani class, or other) are welcome as well. You can also tell me what you'd have liked when you were their age and what kinda teacher you'd have enjoyed to be around? I am me, I can't and don't want to change that, but if you have something in mind, stories, anything, share!

Thank you for reading it!