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I don't disagree, but I think this is a bit too harsh of a generalization.School is just publicly funded daycare- it's all for show and any learning that happens is by accident. They don't even provide the social skills that are cited as a benefit of going to school versus being homeschooled.
I agree, sorta. Lying to students is bull, kinda. Young kids? You kinda end up lying to them (sometimes unintentionally), you gotta paint their world black and white. I'm talking elementary age mostly. They're a little nuts, because they're essentially babies. They won't remember much of it anyway, so it isn't that big a deal, imo. Older they get, though, the more the general nuance of the world and their studies should be made clear. The teacher is not supreme authority of their subject matter and to act like it, or not sufficiently acknowledge limitations when challenged, I believe is wrong.The thing where they would teach you something so oversimplified so as to be flat-out wrong one year, then the following year be like "oh by the way, that was all bullshit, this is how it really is" - only to do it again the year after.
Fuck off, just teach properly from the start and say *outright* that what you're teaching is a gross oversimplification. Don't teach it like it's the truth and then pull the rug out from under people later on.
But as soon as we're done talking studies, and we're talking classroom dynamics / management? I'm sorry, teach is "supreme authority" there. K12 Teaching is literally a mob of munchinks / awkward pre-teens / angsty teenagers vs 1 adult. Bruh, it's my way or the highway (within obvious reason ofc). Challenge the course material all you want, drill into me about what we're learning why and how, but NEVER at the expense of the learning or respect or boundaries, etc. Many of those mobs can play "power games" like literally unconsciously, kids are nutz yo, for obvs developmental reasons. And what I'm getting at is some kids can try and take advantage of "OH, Teach ain't the end all / be all on Science or whatever, so what authority DO YOU HAVE HMMMM??" Some kids go there, 0 to 60.
Man, I personally think of teaching as motherfugging GAME OF THRONES yo. I'd like to see the lowest common denominator criticizer (not any of you OPs, btw, just venting here) come into a school year and balance: students (both in mob form and individually), parents, coworkers, admin, curriculum, work preparation and FUGGIN CORRECTION (marking, grading- I HATE IT SO MUCH) and THEN the rest of their fuggin life Shid's hard sometimes, yo. On top of that, imagine if I now set the bar for that criticizer to "Ok, you survived the year *slow clap*, now get great at it, mofo"
I think I got a little off-topic there, sorry.
Gonna respond to a couple more posts in this thread, one sec.
Also I don't disagree with a lot of what's being said here, just a little more nuance I think would do good.
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