#national teacher of the year

[tariah23]

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[bonefall]

Tbh the whole 'bloodclan bans families and hates Cat God' thing really reminds me of the anti communist bullshit I was fed in highschool history class.

Every day I count my lucky stars that I got educated in a well-funded school in a blue state. My teachers were shockingly good in hindsight, I didn't get half of the same propaganda some of my friends in other states got.

[seagull-scribbles]

Mr.United States Canada Mexico Panama

[naamahdarling]

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[kingoftieland]

It’s National Teacher Appreciation Day! Just like the Jade Giant, my students wouldn’t like me when I’m angry… Because I always support my argument with properly documented scholarly sources. That’s right – Mr. Merenda is The CREDIBLE Hulk! 👨🏼‍🏫

[septembersung]

What is your favorite tree?

I considered poems by William Stafford (“Oak,” “Willows,”) Wendell Berry, and Tolkien for this, but instead I’m giving you the concluding lines of poem that is very special to me: “The Lives of the Poets” by John Balaban.

we stopped before a storm-struck, twisted pear tree,

a remnant from an orchard of 100 years ago.

Out of the hulk of its blackened trunk,

one smooth-skinned branch sent forth some leaves.

“Still blooming?” I asked. “Madly,” he said.

[xxitsxbillxhaderxnationxx]

My Billy boo is just mood. This is literally how I feel right now as the school year is winding down 😂❤️🤦🏻‍♀️

[timedyne]

my eighth grade year i took journalism. in that class we produced our school's student newspaper / magazine (it was called a newspaper but functioned more like a magazine). one of the huge things that my teacher taught us and emphasized throughout the year was how to recognize bias in journalistic writing. before any of our stories went to print, we had a group proofreading session where he printed out our pages on large pieces of paper and told us to pass them around and use a red pen to mark both grammatical/spelling issues and any signs of ANYTHING that could be construed as bias in articles that were not opinion pieces. he told us to make it OBVIOUS. to not just underline it, but to circle it and write BIASED or OPINION in big letters in the margin. afterwards, he would go through the pages with us and discuss each individual bias marking and give suggestions on how to rewrite it/remove it in a way that makes sense. and it worked. as the year went on, less red marks started appearing as we started to learn how to recognize our own bias in our own writing so we didnt have to deal with the scrutiny of other eighth graders. and thats how my journalism teacher ran a middle school newspaper with more journalistic integrity than some outlets nowadays.

[necromancy-savant]

That one poll reminded me of how one time in high school one Ms. Pease saw me quietly listening to my ipod in the hallway waiting for my next class and she just ripped it out of my hands. And I was staring in pure dumb shock for like 30 seconds and she was like "are you coming or not." She then proceeded to explain, once we walked the whole fucking school to her shitty little office she shared with 15 other people, that ipods aren't allowed in hallways. Which was news to me on account of everyone had them or cd players. She was known for being horrible for no reason but damn. I wish it was her who got arrested for cocaine

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

people online will be like “haha i will make 9/11 jokes because the american reaction to the event had many levels of irrationality” but will not confront the massive amounts of internalised islamophobia that arose from american propaganda justifying the ‘war on terror’ and the iran and iraq wars which was then compounded by a culturally christian society that portrays Islam to be inhumane and oppressive resulting in them now hearing that a muslim group is targeting a fanfic website for ‘degeneracy’ and ‘being usa based’ and then believing it without a second thought

[unmotivatedartistry]

I FORGOT HOW MUCH SOCIALIZING SCHOOL INVOLVES

also coming out to teachers sucks and is embarrassing ☹️ ALSO THE FACT I HAVE TO TELL THEM TO NOT CALL ME MY NAME AROUND MY PARENTS SUCKS HARDER ☹️☹️☹️

[murderousink23]

07/08/2024 is SCUD Day 🌎, International Town Criers Day 🌎, Islamic New Year ☪️🌎, Teacher's Day 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫🇵🇪, National Chocolate with Almonds Day 🇺🇸, National Blueberry Day 🇺🇸

[applexi]

school madness

[daybreakstorm]

having thoughts about how high school can be something so integral to your entire personality and life and yet when you return you realize it meant nothing at all to those around you

[hightaled]

my schedule and my classes are so fucking awful and i am filled with more contempt and vitriol than ever this year

[princemick-archive]

hey are u american? just reading ur tags about the podcast and curious that you said he should speak to public school teachers. public school in the uk is typically another word for private school - we say state school instead for govt funded (there's also academies but that's getting pedantic).

neither american nor english!

I said public school because I am in some ways referring to the American school system when I say I want lewis to speak to teachers as I think if we're talking about '1st world countries' theyre one of the countries with some of the worst rules against alternative systems and so the teachers are incredibly limited on all levels.

more generally I meant public school bc I dont want him talking to a professor of education at some fancy university because they either never had to work and or fight around the limitations that school systems bring or only had to in school when they were studying during their internship time which is incredibly limited and controlled.

I want lewis to talk to a average but passionate high/middle school teacher who has to write all their own lesson plans, who has to fight to get funded for anything outside of the curriculum etc etc.