#us schools

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

In the United States it's common for high schools to stage a simulated lethal crash to teach kids about the dangers of distracted or impaired driving. This often includes fake blood and first responders to stage rescuing people from the crash. Is this done anywhere outside the United States? I don't feel like it is. So I ask

#american school system #united states #us schools #american education #drive smart #drive smart week

[the-final-sif]

Honestly I think one of the fundamental disconnects on this site, is people on this site will talk about censorship and false histories of the histories they learned in their grade/middle/high school, and will run under the assumption that these textbooks were written by/offer the general consensus of historians. For a lot of people, this is the majority of their exposure to history unless they dedicate time and energy to learning about new parts of history in more depth.

So you have things like people talking about historians refusing to acknowledge people's queerness. What they're often talking about and trying to express is how censored and biased their history textbooks in school were. This is the majority of their exposure to history, and their conception of the field.

For actual historians, that feels completely unfair and not representative of their work or what's actually in research and in the field. Because they think that this person is talking about Actual Historians and not the people that write the whitewashed textbooks that a lot of people grow up on.

I think it's important to recognize and clarify that gap, so that you can have both an acknowledgement of the censorship and whitewashing of a lot of people's major exposure to history, and also acknowledging the very real work being done by historians to preserve and study actual history with all of it's nuances.

#sif speaks #us politics #us schools #idk been seeing posts and I think that's kinda important to draw these lines

[kimberly-spirits13]

Guess who’s enrolled to get her bachelors and masters degree in engineeringgggggg

Ps I’m doing my minor in fine arts and I’m so excited and I’m doing a program where I can do college in five years and graduate with my masters and bachelors so I’m stoked- hopefully I’m set to graduate without student loans so no debt!

#dc x reader #dc comics #dc characters #batfam x reader #batboys x reader #batfam #dick grayson x reader #damian wayne x reader #jason todd x reader #damian wayne #advice for school #american school system #school help #school tips #us schools #dream college #college life #college #high school #senior year #senior #so exciiiiiited #so excited

[intersectionalpraxis]

Just saw your post about the psycho Zionist teacher and 1) great points 2) I haven't seen this reported on any major news network but you just KNOW that had it been a Muslim or Arab teacher with a Palestinian flag, it would be 24/7 coverage nationwide. Clown country.

I tried to find some updated information, but it appears that still no major mainstream or national news centre covered this event apart from one local new station in Georgia. People are losing their jobs for saying "from the river to the sea," and for demanding a ceasefire at protests. If he wasn't white, this would be a breaking story on CNN for at least 24 hours with coverage on the ground at the school with them interviewing or trying to engage with staff and the administration to hold that piece of zionist shit accountable but no... the racist double standards, as you pointed out, are continually perpetuated and reinforced, and it makes me sick to my stomach.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #freepalastine🇵🇸 #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza #american propaganda #american imperialism #us imperialism #anti zionisim #end the occupation #end the genocide #us schools #education #teachers

[gamer2002]

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1696664790821666816?s=09

School board removes a man for reading from the pornographic book they allow in a public school library.

#grooming #child grooming #us schools #school boards #us education #us education system #education #education system #schools #school #us politics #politics

[luulapants]

One of the surest arguments that capitalism is an unsustainable nightmare that destroys innovation is the way it's made it impossible to create an effective education system. We've made it financially impossible for most people to let their kids succeed academically.

Illinois just passed a law making it mandatory that all kindergarten is now a full-day program. Most already are. This is being hailed as a huge win for low income working families, and it is... But it's a huge loss for kids. Full day kindergarten means no naps. We have strong evidence that most children still need daily naps at age 5. "But they can stay awake just fine!" you may think, but it's not about that. Sleep is the time when our brains convert short term memory to long term memory, and kids 5 and under have reduced short term memory capacity. If they don't get a midday nap, anything they learn in the morning can be lost. Naps are critical for learning.

In fact, most kids are done napping earlier than that, either in preschool or daycare, because it's incredibly difficult for childcare programs to get a bunch of ambulatory, verbal kids to nap all together in one space. It's too noisy, too disruptive. The bedding takes up too much space. So they don't do naps, and their 3 and 4 year olds lose their morning learning. Half of their days. Because their parents have to work all day. Because their schools can't afford adequate napping space and their parents can't afford schools that can.

We know that early childhood education is one of the most important indicators of long-term academic success. Kids that can't nap will learn less in preschool and kindergarten and start first grade behind where they should be. That deficit will follow them, compounded by the other structural issues of capitalism and its effects on our schools and will create less effective workers for the capitalist machine. And so the machine breaks down because we couldn't adapt it to the schedules of 5-year-old brains.

#anti capitalism #child psychology #us schools

[public-school-things]

When my freshman year German teacher left and the new teacher came, it was found out apparently the old teacher was trying to teach us 'Pennsylvania Deutsche' (Amish). Not German. I have literally never gotten over that. THIS GUY WAS TEACHING THERE SINCE THE 90S AND NOBODY. NOT A SOUL EVER NOTICED!!!!!

(This is like trying to teach the modern English language using unaltered Shakespeare)

that is in a way so fucking hysterical. im surprised no one noticed. did you guys not have language standardized tests? either way, thats so amusing omg.

#high school #public school #gen z #public school stories #school stories #community stories #submission #school #anonymous #public school things #united states #us public schools #us schools #american school system

[singularsoldier]

While the hamster in my brain is still running on his wheel:

A big thing no one ever takes into consideration when it comes to how ridiculously early school starts in the US: people who take adhd medication.

Say your school starts at 7:30am. Bc of how massive your county is, you have to wake up at 6am to catch the bus at 6:30. That means you take your meds (which lasts 12 hours for this example) at 6am. If you get home at around 3:30pm, your meds theoretically only have about 2.5 hours left of effectiveness. By 6pm, they’ve completely worn off.

You cannot honestly tell me that within this 2.5 hour window, every student will have all hw/projects completed. What about those with younger siblings they have to watch? What about their chores? I’m being generous with that 3:30 drop off time too. I used to not get home until 4pm or even 4:30.

My adhd meds were the only reason i got shit done, and i was lucky to sit down by 5pm to actually start my schoolwork. That left me with barely an hour before i was technically “unmedicated” and lost all focus/motivation. I cannot begin to describe the agony of a single sheet of math hw taking until 8:30 to get done.

Do we see the problem? This is just my experience with adhd meds. What about other morning only pills? If your answer is “just take it at school!” You have either never set foot into a public school where teachers police your every move or dealt with bullies classmates who would not hesitate to steal your shit. ESPECIALLY medication.

#singularthought #adhd #us schools

[box-is-real]

y'know im sick rn and gonna miss school and i was thinking about how, after a pandemic that locked everyone in their houses for months, and killed over 7 million people, you'd think places like school would be more understanding about sickness. and then they literally incentivise going to school sick.

in my school you can have a total of 5 absences, even if they are excused because you were sick before you lose your exemptions for finals. They also have a little raffle if you miss 0 days of school. This is in an effort to stop people from skipping school.

but the school is actually encouraging people to come to school sick so they don't miss out on skipping finals and missing rewards, while most people who actually skip don't care about exemptions or whatever tiny raffle reward the school is giving out.

and like there have been at least 4 times this year people have gotten sick and still come to school, getting other students and teachers sick.

like im no expert but also it is fucking stupid to ignore that forcing kids to come to school when they are sick causes illness to spread.

like, wow, we punished people who don't come to school even if they're sick and a whole bunch of students and teachers got sick????????? who could've predicted that???????

Also for anyone wondering why the school changed its policy on absences, it's the reason anything happens in america: money.

#covid #covid 19 #sick #sickness #school #school system #us schools #u.s. #america moment #box is fucking losing it

[foreverlogical]

“When I was cheering for them to ban books, I didn’t mean my books…”

#book banning #florida #gop #bill o'reilly #maga #us schools #books & libraries

[mudwerks]

(via meirl : meirl)

#i don't know #but i loved it #and pretended to hate it #square dance #4th grade #us schools

[the-sample-from-the-petri-dish]

What’s cool is I fucking hated the school system my entire life but I only found real reasons to around the eighth grade. Like before than I just didn’t like it.

“Oh I know it’s boring but you have to go :)))” fuck you

#us schools #school system #school slander #hate school

[nouklea]

School years and ages

Hello!

Could someone from the US confirm to me the names and ages of the highschool years? I found the names, but I'm not sure about the age of the students and I don't want to screw an entire story on such a detail...

Freshman

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

Wednesday turned 16 in October... What is her year? Sophomore or Junior (or else?!?)

Thanks a lot!

#weyler fanfiction #us schools

[kimberly-spirits13]

YALL I NEED SENIOR QUOTE HELP

what are your favorite quotes from this list?

YOU'RE BRAVER THAN YOU BELIEVE AND STRONGER THAN YOU SEEM, AND SMARTER THAN YOU THINK." -- WINNIE THE POOH, POOH'S MOST GRAND ADVENTURE.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows she has none – Marylin Monroe 

True courage is pursuing your dream, even when everyone else says it’s impossible- Barbie Three Musketeers 

Every star is there for a reason. They don’t have to fit in with the other stars to be important, they just have to be themselves- Barbie Mariposa 

“Magic happens when you believe in yourself.” – Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale

“What makes you different just might be your greatest strength.” – Barbie In A Mermaid Tale

“The most beautiful thing you can be is yourself.” – Barbie: Mariposa

I want to be defined by the things that I love. Not the things that I’m afraid of or the things that haunt me in the middle of the night. I just think you are what you love. – Taylor Swift 

Never be so kind, you forget to be clever. Never be so clever, you forget to be kind. -Taylor Swift 

I had a marvelous time ruining everything- Taylor Swift 

There were pages turned with the bridges burned, everything you lose is a step you take- Taylor Swift 

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[intersectionalpraxis]

help, these Zionists have all lost their goddamned minds! this one is literally a teacher but you won't hear lawmakers say a word about him being violent!

www.13wmaz.com/amp/article/news/local/warner-robins/new-details-in-warner-robins-teacher-charged-with-terroristic-threats-and-cruelty-to-children/93-66334447-a1d9-4e3a-beb9-8cb300595d35

The power dynamics that exist between a teacher and student should be something an educator is ALWAYS conscious of. This is beyond unethical -it's criminal and despicable. And unfortunately, it's not the first time we have seen some people in the education system who are violent and abusive towards students like this. At least some students have gotten it on record/recorded these so-called teachers being racist, xenophobic, ableist, and overall, bigoted. It astounds me that a grown man in an educational field, who doesn't know how to emotionally regulate, would say this to a MIDDLE SCHOOLER -a 12/13 year old child who CLEARLY has way more emotional intelligence and reflexivity than that zionist would ever dream of having.

I also love it when he tried to backtrack and say that this student was being 'antisemitic,' when he escalated his train of thoughts and said he would kill them... I hope he gets his licence removed and is never able to teach again.

My solidarity is for the teachers who give a damn -who do their best despite under-funding, having to guide/parent/counsel their students because parents and guardians won't (and that's a separate conversation, but worthy to mention), and with whom DO NOT get paid nearly as much as they should. But for terrible 'teachers' like this -who threaten to kill their students for calling out IOF violence -people like that should never be allowed to entered into a classroom ever again.

Although this doesn't compare at all, it made me think of some terrible teachers I've had in the past. I had a Professor during my BA in University tell our entire class that 'imperialism in theory isn't bad,' and to me personally when I was writing about (it was a History of Japan course); Japanese women's writing in the 20th century (and specifically women-run journals in the 1920s-1930s (and I highly recommend more people research this because there is a vast depth to women's writing in Japan for hundreds of years). I was casually talking about feminism in his office when I visited him to clarify my essay topic, and somehow our conversation led to something I brought up in a lecture, which was the history of tattooing in Japan, and he told me straight to my face "I think tattoos on women ruin their natural femininity."

Some people should just not be teachers in so many ways. And I really hope he's fired.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free palestine #settler violence #settler colonialism #israel is an apartheid state #western imperialism #american imperialism #education #teachers #tw hate crime #tw violence #us schools #imperialism #colonialism

[cannabisexual]

schools in the us are businesses first, educational institutions second. and if a school has a robust sports program, you can just go ahead and bump that 2nd down to a 3rd or even 4th.

#personal #schools #education #us schools #us education #public education