#teachers need more pay

[guinevereslancelot]

decided to leave my job and i'm gonna fr gonna cryyyyy

[brittlebutch]

bill and ted and their efforts in education is something thats So Important to me - they really do want to learn and find new things soo interesting, its just that traditional teaching methods fail them. even stuff they love (music) took them so long to learn !!!! which is something i feel like ppl miss a lot. choosing to learn smthn that is difficult and has a steep learning curve is actually So Hard and frustrating and bill and ted actually put in so much effort to learn!! and ofc it works out (they win battle of the bands, become famous, save the world etc) but i feel like they wouldve worked at it even if they never met rufus and all that bc they approach life with such genuine earnestness. which is a trait i admire so much and they make me so happy :)

yes dude you absolutely hit the nail on the head!!! i love love love that Bill and Ted don't make it through any of the movies thanks to any kind of special skill or innate talent, they manage to make it through just because they're so affable and enthusiastic that people around them (even some who would have reason to actually dislike them) just can't seem to help but be taken with them and decide to help them out - no perpetuating the myth of independence anywhere!!

and you're so right about the time travel probably not being strictly Necessary in their development like, their audition at the beginning of Bogus Journey isn't very good but it's still technically way more musical than their garage jam sessions were in Excellent Adventure! (You could argue that's just the Princesses carrying the sound, which is probably true to an extent, BUT I don't think that's it entirely bc there's not any discordant distortion-noise like there was in EA and parts of the melody do seem to cut out when Bill and Ted pause playing to speak) So they were learning and improving between movies, it's just that they're naturally kind of slow at it AND they've also probably not been able to focus on learning all that well bc they're working full time and struggling financially - once they take like a year and a half outside of time to practice nothing but guitar they're able to show off some serious musical acumen, and THEN i love how Face the Music shows how even though they've both gotten pretty Technically skilled at a huge variety of instruments, they're still 'bad at it' bc they struggle to write music that other people enjoy/understand and they still aren't overly bothered by that at all!

Also love that the same applies to Billie and Thea - they seem to have a much easier time of things than their dads do wrt learning/innate skills BUT they're still 24 and haven't moved out or gone to college or gotten jobs or anything and no one (other than Chief Logan ofc) puts them down or admonishes them for this! They're both loved and supported wholeheartedly by their parents (who OFC understand it all completely) and they make it through the movie the same exact way Bill and Ted did! Even though Billie and Thea do rely on a more-than-solid grasp of musical history to navigate the circuits of time, their ability to sway the historical figures to their cause largely thanks to their enthusiasm for the topic and general affability and i love how that's always upheld by the movies as a Valued Trait i love it SO much

[tipytap]

im sick of having knowledge and skills locked behind a paywall.

why is it always “well you need to pay at least $15,000 a year to learn that for four years before i even CONSIDER hiring you”??

whatever happened to “this is a fine young lad. he may only be seven but let me take him under my wing and teach him the ways of being a blacksmith so he may one day be my successor”???

[dodomingo]

Is there like 'become a human being' intensive career therapy or smth like that or is that something Ronald Raegan un-invented

[one-time-i-jumped-off-a-cliff]

hi i just need to brag about this i’ve been teaching this kid at swim for like a full two years and like at the level that she’s been working on she’s been stuck on this one skill that’s swimming across the whole pool without stopping and today she GOT IT literally it’s been like three months working on this one thing and i’d literally resigned myself just giving it to her if she like stopped and self-rescued and kept going by herself and today??? she literally just like did the whole swim perfectly???? like miss ma’am phenomenal. fantastic. i’m so proud.

[vriska-serketboard]

ayo can somebody give me tips about how to either tone down or get rid of my anger at my syntax professor bc i am angry at her to a point where it is physically painful

[firebuug]

wow. my god. ill probably become an actual human being with autonomy this year lol

[jrueships]

CRYING

LOOK AT ALL THE HAPPY LIL BABIES!! 😭😭 HES SO GOOD WITH THEM

he would make SUCH a good younger ages school teacher

[fancymeatcomputers]

Why tf does my school have like 6 different dance teachers but there's only ONE teacher that teaches like 6 visual art classes 😀

[magnoliamyrrh]

times u rly notice u have adhd tho is in class. always been this way too. it blows my mind to see ppl in class for the most part..... standing still... i cant do that shit. im changing positions constantly im rocking back and forth im fiddling w my hands im chewing on something im drawing im looking everywhere just like. anything. and unless a class is either something im rly rly interested in, or its difficult enough to actually use my full brain capacity, even if i care and i find it mostly interesting actually listening 100% is damn near impossible for me

[guinevereslancelot]

job interview tomorrow 🙏

[yip-yip]

little panic in the tags

[marinaimsure]

hi. i hate it when im more anxious than usually. makes me act irrationally and more impulsively. and i cant quite control it. meds dont really help in those situation. and i make my friends feel bad with my aggressive behavior. at least, i think i do. i have llived with my enxiety my entire life and while, yeah, i cant regulate it, and yeah, it''s the only thing that consistently ruins my life, the only moment i resent it more than ever is when it becomes a burden for my friends to bear as well, when i place that burden upon them because of my anxiety. they dont deserve this, no one does and i hate it, i hate that they have to deal with that and that they keep dealing with it, not giving up on me as any sensible person would've. i love them so much, i hate making them feel bad or whatever.

[silverislander]

wait my parents might've just had their first good suggestion in terms of careers. hang on. wait a second.

[twdgs]

i just kind of cant bring myself to care very much that the bullshit teachers are suffering because of misbehaving kids. you are the ones who make my and a lot of other kids lives a million times harder on the fucking daily because you think you’re better than me on a human level because of a diploma to your name. sorry not sorry, but you dont get my pity or my support when you try your absolute hardest to break me

[banannabethchase]

At what point do all the "bad days" teaching coalesce into a bad year?