• BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
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      This is the equivalent of “you don’t want to be like that Janitor over there” energy. Needlessly mean to a specific class or profession because they don’t see it as valued.

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        Nobody respected the janitorial staff at my high school until they went on strike. Shit went downhill FAST.

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          Maybe that should be a thing. Once every 2-4 years the janitors go on strike so kids develop an appreciation for blue collar work. It would be random within that timeframe though so it couldn’t really be prepared for.

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        Yeah, teach sounds like a dick. A HS physics teacher doesn’t even make that much more than a GM at McDicks and probably less than a McD District Manager. Sounds like the teacher should’ve made better career choices, maybe they’d be a physicist instead of just teaching. You know what they say: Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.

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      “Rappers are lying when they say that teachers told them they wouldn’t amount to anything. They just told you to read aloud, and you got mad.”

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        Haven’t we all had at least one exceptionally shitty teacher though?

        I’ve been in the room when Mr fucking Stephens told a kid that he’d never be an artist and to pay attention. Is little Jake an artist today? No, he’s a welder, he has 4 kids, and he still loves to draw. Granted Jake never thought art was an option but I’m not sure 7th grade biology is coming up in his daily life either.

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          I’ve had horrible teachers, but mostly because they were abusive, and terrible at teaching. Even those horrible teachers never told me I wouldn’t amount to anything without appending the statement with “if you don’t apply yourself”.

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            Things would probably be different if teachers made more money or if the requirements were higher. For most people who become teachers, it definitely was not their intended career progression. Just something they landed on.

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          Yeah some teachers are legitimately awful. I had one in fourth grade that was extremely disrespectful to her students, screaming at them and publicly humiliating ones that did poorly on tests or had trouble reading to the class. Acted the polar opposite when other faculty were in the room doing observation reviews.

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          I had this teacher who was openly cruel to me in front of my classmates. She didn’t even try to hide her disdain. Many years later my father told me she had a talk with him and told him: “I’d love to fail him but I can’t because he keeps scoring 10 in every exam.” So that was the reason, I never did my homework, I was always distracting my classmates but I always passed exams with a 10.

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          I had a real cunt of a math teacher in 6th grade, he taught his subject matter well but was just a bastard of a human being; I no longer have several mementos of my life (was an air force brat) because he confiscated them, and would be pedantic about how you asked to get things back (may i vs can i BS); eventually he would just dispose of things.

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    Some of y’all didn’t grow up in the southeastern US and it shows.

    Not all of the teachers in my school were unreasonable narcissistic sadists, but about half of them were.

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      Wow, have you even tried being born to a socioeconomic status that put you in a better school zone??

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      Idk if that’s the right qualifier. It should be “rural”. Because when people aren’t stupid, and they live in the city, they’re gonna get shuffled into classes pretty early with all the other not stupid people. But in small towns, small classes, you’re gonna see everyone. I’ve witnessed teachers saying this to kids over and over, and it’s because we didn’t have a choice. There was no fancy classroom either of us were escaping to.

      Is a tired trope tho

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          Yes, I’d much rather have my tax dollars going toward that than another air superiority fighter that: A. Doesn’t work and B. Wouldn’t be used because most of our military engagements are against groups without air forces.

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            Shockingly the military isn’t the reason we cant have the other things we want, it’s because we don’t make everyone pay their fair share.

            Also while it’s unpopular the f22 project did push the envelope for technology and that money wasn’t just burned, the f22 is still quite the technological achievement and even failures result in significant research and development

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                Well it’s sensor fusion technology has been the blue print for every machine intended to “make its own decision” in terms of where it goes, and what functions it uses. The sensor tech created have lead to a bunch of significant increases in a number of tracking technologies, everything from optically informed triggers and movement, improvements in camera, and display tech, and a large array of sensors using a lot of other means of sensing things, such as EM fields/projection. The air frame has informed the development of more efficient commercial aircraft. Developments in HUD/AR displays have a lot to thank from the tech developed for the F-22’s pilot information systems. All sorts of different user interface tech was influenced by things developed for it.

                A whole lot of what many industries have been doing draws from stuff developed for the system. So-much-so that congress made an amendment that specifically blocked the sale of the F-22 and its associated sub-systems.

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        Removing profiteering would be a good first step. We got here by neolibs deciding that everything was fair game to make money on. So, millennial, zoomer, and future generations’ educations were sold off. For decades, literacy education has been using systems developed to allow people with learning disabilities to be functional in modern society, not to foster reading comprehension.

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        I think for a lot of people, reading of kind of a luxury they don’t have time for. Kind of hard to hone your literacy skills when you’re living hand to mouth.

        Then again, I’m a self taught engineer from a poor immigrant family. So who the hell knows.

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      Do you know what the proportion of native English speakers vs non-native speakers is in the US?

      It doesn’t diminish your point, but probably that non-native speakers skew the stats a bit if they are included in the stat.

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    I had a teacher when I was 9 who hated boys. She was cruel and threatened to fail me for the year. Every other teacher that year, I had no issues and was doing great. This one had a vendetta and seemed to want to ensure that none of the few boys in her class would pass. My mom was luckily a strong advocate for us though and almost got that bitch fired.