#Education System

[becomingvecna]

reblog if you think these are all valid reasons for a student or an employee to take a day off from their school or their job without their grades or paycheck being affected in any way:

- period cramps

- exhaustion, be it mental or physical

- depression, anxiety, and other mental health related issues

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

reblog if you believe people who graduated from high schools or colleges should still have free access to the schools’ / colleges’ libraries for the rest of their lives

[kinorabee]

it's low-key terrifying that massachusetts has the best education system in the u.s. because it is NOT good here

[reality-detective]

How the education system in America and then Worldwide became corrupt. 🤔

[inkprilled]

Just before covid hit my brother and I at 15 and 19 found our selfs homeless. I had a choice, my brother would go into care or we could stay together, but only if I took responsibility for him and had somewhere to live. So I applyed for social housing, the guy that processed my case was sympathetic and at some points I was holding it together better than him, do you have any other family? No, Do you know where your mother is? I wish I did, how old is your brother? 15 are you in any fulltime education? Not anymore. He looked at me like I was something tragic and I suppose I was, there isn't a metaphor for what I looked like that works any better than just what his naked eyes saw; a girl abandoned by her mother, her life in a bag on her back completely thrown on how to deal with everything, and all he could do was fill out a form and send it and me off. it's going to be okay.

Somehow despite the odds we where given emergency accommodation and a year later a property to rent, I suspect we where pushed up the list because of my brothers age, we where lucky, some people wait years in hotels or streets all over the country, living out of suitcases and rucksacks.

As lucky as we where, luck didn't cover all the things I suddenly had to know. I had no idea how bills worked or paying my taxes, I didn't even really understand what "taxes" meant until the final notices where piling up in front of us. It's something they don't teach you in school or at least mine didn't. They never taught us how to survive in a world like this, they assume our parents would be there to explain or we'd be much older before it mattered. what's more useful in real life, how to formally address someone in an email or how to keep the lights on or how to find food when a tin of beans is too expensive.

Though I suppose the email ettique lesson was useful for something in the end,

To whomever it may concern, I'm writing to you regarding my payment plans and how I'm choosing to fork over alot of money and won't be buying enough food to live off this month. My regards.

[dhddmods]

Intersex should be included in "basic biology."

It is literally so easy to include intersex people from the get-go in biology class. Same with transgender, transsex, and altersex.

And its super important because we can guarantee that at least one of the students in that class is intersex, or will know an intersex person, considering intersex people are as common as green eyes (and possibly even more common, due to being underdiagnosed/misdiagnosed.)

Like, first, you DO NOT separate the class into "male" and "female" segments. Teach everyone the same lessons, don't contribute to kids developing sexist stereotypes and anatomical confusion. Then, explain perisex anatomy. Use the words perisex, TWDP/wolffipathian, and TMDP/mulleripathian while explaining.

Then, you explain intersex people's existence. You say:

"Some people fall outside of the perisex classification. This is known as being intersex. The intersex spectrum includes: -People with a urethra that is in an atypical location, or merged with the vagina or anus. -People with a penis that has an atypical appearance. -People with genitalia or reproductive organs that are small, closed off, or have absent parts. -People with extra genitals or reproductive organs. -People with mixed genitals or reproductive organs. -People with higher levels of estrogen or androgens than expected. -People with lower levels of estrogen or androgens than expected, or a body that does not process estrogen or androgen. -People with the opposite chromosomes than expected. -People with chromosomes other than XX and XY (0X, 0X-XY, XX-XY, XYY, XYYY, XYYYY, XXYYY, XXXYY, XXYY, XXY, XXXY, XXXXY, XXXXX, XXXX, and XXX.) [Have a slideshow with illustrations of each of these examples.] If you want to learn more about intersex people, here is a pamphlet including all currently known intersex traits and variations. [Hand each student a pamphlet that explains in brief, easy to understand, but concise language all intersex variations, with illustrations to go along with it. Something similar to our intersex guide, but with your own spin on it.] Being intersex has its own unique sets of challenges, and may co-exist with certain disorders and characteristics, but it is not a disorder itself. A person is either born intersex or develops intersex traits during puberty. Taking hormones or undergoing surgery does not change your perisex or intersex state - you cannot become one or the other, it is just something you biologically are. If a person - perisex or intersex - wishes to change their sex traits, they may call themself transsex or altersex." [And then you can expand upon that, talking about transgender people as well, and how gender and sex are separate concepts.]

It's so easy to be inclusive and to stop promoting intersex erasure.

[sunbookie]

About to tap into this one...👑🧠📚🍎✍🏿🤔✊🏿💯

[seconddiary1]

All I want is to be disgustingly educated and pretty

[silence-between-seconds]

I don't think education was supposed to be about students breaking down and having bad mental breakdowns and panic attacks about submissions and exams. I don't think school was supposed to be about ranks and cutthroat competition and bad mental health.

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

Truly a horrible yet amazing highlight of how no matter you try to make tradition look pretty or modern it's still the same traditions that barred women from going to school or even voting. This notion of being a "stay-at-home" mom, dad, or partner is one rooted in the bourgeois as only the upper and middle class have this luxury, working class people must work regardless of their child's needs just to put food on the table and pay rent. This has happened before in the 60s, we can't and shouldn't accept this no matter what.

[the-gayestidiot]

They (the education system) hate me (person with ADHD) for being amazing (being too unmotivated to work on assignments so I never turn them in)

[itellmyselfsecrets]

“Female professors are penalised if they aren't deemed sufficiently warm and accessible. But if they are warm and accessible they can be penalised for not appearing authoritative or professional. On the other hand, appearing authoritative and knowledgeable as a woman can result in student disapproval, because this violates gendered expectations. Meanwhile men are rewarded if they are accessible at a level that is simply expected in women and therefore only noticed if it's absent.” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

[reality-detective]

The education system actually has no education in it, but it's an indoctrination system to follow orders. 🤔

[chazchaschad]

this felt really important to me

P.S. thank you to my English teacher this year, you’re the only English teacher I’ve ever thought was cool and your cabinet dedicated to Edgar Allen Poe is absolutely freaking epic. Also thank you for trying to help me find that Sherlock Holmes book I couldn’t take out from the library because I lost a pervious book and never returned it sorry library

[would-you-punt-them]

That one shitty teacher you had