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I know you’re being downvoted, but it’s increasingly true, at least in the US. My kids are in public school in Texas and let me tell you that it is not at ALL like you adults remember it.
US education is quickly devolving into what you’re describing. Almost every single day my kids talk about the collective punishments they receive because of other kids’ misbehavior. Their favorite teachers have all been fired to save budget, and some classes have had more than one teacher quit mid-year. The rules have become far more arbitrary and less focused on learning than they ever have been in the past. More focus on forcing the kids to learn the same curriculum instead of adjusting for their talents leaves my kids extremely bored.
Add to that the fact that the superintendent is publicly embezzling money from the district, sparking huge protests, but we can’t do shit about it because he was appointed by the governor. Multiple schools in our poorest areas closed this year to be replaced with charter schools.
Anyway, all this to say that public school isn’t the wonderful thing for kids like it used to be. It should be fantastic for kids like it was when I was growing up but it really does look more like a prison than not these days.
It's fascinating to see the reactions of people, but I'm just stating what I think.
I'm neurodivergent and was bullied for most of the time I went to school. If I was not being bullied, I either found it too interesting, or very boring. Plus, being unpopular, I was always picked last in gym class, so at some point I started not going to those classes, and eventually dropped out of school entirely. I really felt like it was a prison where parents dump their kids while they are busy earning slave wages. And from what I hear from my nephew and friends working in schools, I'm just glad I don't have a child that also has to deal with this.
The whole concept of schools with classes of ~30ish kids with an overworked teacher trying to follow a standardized program that will not work for all kids, is... depressing.
Didn't know your story, I assumed you were just acting immature and I found it amusing to answer back with a juvenile quip. If I made you feel attacked for not understanding social clues because of your neurodivergence or something like that, I am sorry.
Oh yeah I’ve tried talking about stupid rules my school had online before only to be told I was wrong because they didn’t have to deal with it when they went to school.
Like I was talking about how we weren’t allowed to wear winter coats in the class room because it was “distracting”. And then someone got really pissy at me for it.
We also weren’t allowed to talk about negative experiences and feelings about teachers. Only allowed to be openly positive about them or else risk punishment. God forbid students warn each other about problematic teachers so they can actually have a chance.
If you didn’t go to that school during the time they say it happened or have a kid who was there, then shut up. You know nothing about what it is like, you do not know enough to be able to actually contradict them.
I've ranted about school rules and the teachers I've had on here numerous times before. One time somebody responded with something along the lines of my school admin probably being good people just trying to get through the day, and that my attitude (which developed in response to how school admin treated me) made life harder for them. Bruh. I hope I made life harder for them. If you traumatize kids to the point they still talk about the bullshit you did to them decades years later, you're clearly no saint.
As to stupid rules, my high school didn't allow water bottles. Period. Rumor was that some girl filled one with vodka and a teacher found out. Ever since, water bottles of all kinds were banned. Meanwhile, the water fountains were regularly full of trash, with kids sticking chewing tobacco and gum onto the water spouts. I refused to drink from them.
Ooh yeah, and there was no air conditioning (except in select rooms, computer lab, auditorium, and of course the offices. Can't risk letting the adults get uncomfortable now. /s) It was our normal to go the entire day without water (aside from whatever we had during our lunch) while also sweating our asses off. It's hard to express how normalized this sort of thing was, how my classmates refused to say or do anything to affect any sort of change, because they all feared "rocking the boat." Sound familiar? They'd already been trained to accept whatever authority decided for them. Which is why when I said things to call out how wrong we were being treated, it was easy for admin to single me out as a lone trouble-maker. Others saw me get punished, and further internalized the lesson of, "Just go with the flow."
Fast forward 20 years, and we have Trump as president for a second time.
I know I had another point I came here to make, but pardon me, I need to go scream into a pillow for a bit.