#A LITTLE SETBACK LIKE BEING A FUCKING IDIOT ISN'T GOING TO STOP ME

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Izuru's day off, or how Gin got a concussion right after waking up from a coma.

Izuru was nervous. No, saying he was nervous was an understatement. After his captain was in a coma for a week, his first day being awake in a complete daze, the second day being given to Rangiku, and the third day to Orihime and Tousen, the seated officers of the Third Division were finally allowed to visit their restrained captain. Izuru felt as if there were a thousand wasps were stinging him from the inside of his stomach.

"I still can't believe he agreed to meet us. It honestly feels like a prank," Third Seat Riku Togakushi said, and Izuru had to agree with him. Their captain had quite literally jumped from windows in the past to avoid social confrontations. Riku turned his head to their other men, "And I can trust you three to behave?"

Fourth Seat Akiko Hizuki rolled her red eyes, "For the hundredth time, yes. I do know how to be civil when I have to, you know. We're all minor nobles here. We learned to hold our tongues the hard way."

"Besides," Fifth Seat Taketsuna Gori added, "it's Asuke you should be worried about. He's the idiot that saw our five-and-a-half-foot spitfire over here," he said pointing at Akiko with his thumb, "and decided the best idea is to make a short joke as a greeting. You'd think he'd know better after leaving with three little sisters."

Sixth Seat Asuka Katakura's eye twitched. "Would you shut up about that already? My home was a fucking warzone, so we didn't have time to learn from our shit lessons. You try being fucking polite while growing up with three hellspawns!"

Riku let out a sigh as their arguing continued in the background. "I'm already starting to regret this decision."

Izuru let out a soft chuckle before stopping at the room. With a big swallow, he opened the door to see his former captain sitting up on his bed and watching from the window before turning to them with his usual fox-like smile. "Oh? I didn't know you were gonna bring a party with ya, Izuru. I woulda brought out some snacks if you'd have told me."

"You wouldn't have agreed if I told you," was the only thing Izuru was able to say before his throat closed up and body froze, his captain's chuckle making it even worse. It felt all the words and screams he wanted to shout all tried to get out at once, and he ended up choking on them instead. The rest of his men seemed to be in a similar state. Thankfully, Akiko was the only one who didn't seem to be affected by the tension in the room. Izuru saw her walking with confidence to their captain, standing in front of him with grace and a determined look in her eyes...

Only for her to take out a giant paper fan and began to hit their captain without any mercy.

"FOURTH SEAT HIZUKI," three men shouted since Taketsuna let out a shout for a laugh.

"YOU BETRAYED YOUR DIVISION," Akiko screamed as she hit him, "ABANDONED ALL OF US, MADE US FEEL LIKE SHIT FOR MONTHS, AND YOU GREET US WITH A FUCKING JOKE? I SHOULD KILL YOU RIGHT NOW-"

"Fouth Seat Hizuki, please calm yourself!" Riku yelled out while trying to disarm her along with Izuru as Asuka came to grab her from behind, lifting her feet from the ground and shouted to Taketsuna to get his shit together. Instead, Takestuna continued to cry-laughing.

Finally, after a few solid minutes of struggling, Izuru was able to disarm Akiko and took the paper fan for himself. The room cooled down, with Izuru's heavy breathing being the only sound.

"Lieutenant Kira?" Riku asked wearily after noticing how eery the silence became. He got his answer when Izuru started to whack their captain.

"LIEUTENANT KIRA!" Both Riku and Asuka yelled out together.

"DO YOU - HAVE - ANY - IDEA - HOW - MUCH - PAPERWORK - I HAD - TO DO- BECAUSE - OF - YOU!" Izuru shrieked between hits. Akiko screamed encouragement and told him to "hit it where it hurts" while struggling against Asuka's hold. Taketsuna fell to the ground and lost his last shit.

"Lieutenant Kira, that is enough!" Riku yelled at Izuru as he held the latter back. Izuru struggled against the hold in the same vein as Akiko.

"Would you get up from the floor already, you fucking neanderthal?!" Asuka screamed at Taketsuna, who had that point, was choking on his own laughter.

Thanks to all the commotion, three members from the Ninth Division came to see where the screaming came from.

The Ninth Division's Third Seat took out his camera and a gleam of opportunity in his eyes.

"Captain Unohana said that whoever leaks information from the Fourth Division will be dealt with by her own hands," Shuhei warned his men.

The Ninth Division's Third Seat lowered his camera with shaking hands and went to look for some nurses under Shuhei's command. From the looks of the scene, it seems like Gin had gained another head injury from a visitor. Captain Unohana was not going to be happy about this.

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okay i have a lot of thoughts about the school system, though keep in mind i am not a person with the degree in the shit nor do I have studies to support my claims. These are opinions that exist purely from both failing and succeeding in the school system, and my school isn't even as bad as the ones in the US.

I think one of the biggest setbacks that school gives absolutely every kid I've met is the fear of failure. This is created by two things - the way that teachers and the people around us TREAT failure as a moral failing on the part of the student with how much pressure to succeed is tied to our other successes in life, and the fact that school has a very strict set of time in order to learn a subject. The first one is pretty easy to fix actually, just, stop framing failures as punishment and talk about it as a neutral fact, be more empathic towards students and you're good. The second point would need a huge re-haul of the system because of how much of it is time based. See the thing is, different people learn at different speeds. Different people learn different things at different speeds, and different methods affect that speed as much as the subject and person themselves. I am a fast learner and I learn pretty well from the school when I just go to lectures - I only really need something to be explained to me once and I can move on from it. My classmates however have different backgrounds - maybe some of them are abused, maybe some of them just think differently, maybe some of them have learning disabilities, or just straight up maybe it takes them longer to fully process and understand a subject. But in the end, all of us need to learn this one particular topic in, say, 2 weeks. And if we don't know it by the end of the 2 weeks, we're the idiot and have to spend time trying to memorize it. And if we fail to do that, that failure is our fault, instead of the issue being that we just need a more personalized approach. Another issue is the fact that we're not fucking taught how to learn by ourselves. I think I struggle with this more as my classmates, since I typically don't need to study but they do, so I have less experience figuring it out on my own. But 99% of the time, the student isn't trying to actually learn to understand the topic, but are forced to just memorize it instead. This makes the information itself... honestly a little useless? If I can't apply mathematics outside of a test because I don't actually understand it, how does maths help me in any aspect of life? If I really do decide that I wanna, say, become a programmer, I'm not going to use the base of information that the school has given me to use the maths I need - I'm going to have to relearn it. Again, a big part of the issue is, in my opinion, that different students have different learning speeds and most people need more time to figure something out. The fact that classes are primarily divided by age in secondary school instead of understanding or knowledge, and that it isn't as fluid, is affecting a student's ability to perform Another another issue - if you're struggling with a teacher in particular, you can't just change teachers most of the time. If a teacher is abusive towards you, if they explain in a method you don't understand, if you straight up don't like them or they sound monotone and you can't focus on what they're saying, you are stuck with that teacher trying to explain you the subject, which is absolute bullshit because what that does is just create gaps in your knowledge so that when next year comes you don't know shit. My classmates struggle with this in particular - my psychology class has, in my opinion, the best teacher, except no one except me actually learns anything from him BECAUSE of our different styles of learning. They don't have the options to change a teacher, because thats the teacher that teaches that particular subject and you just have to suck it up and go back to memorizing those 5 studies again I guess. This isn't even touching upon how the social life of a school can affect one's performance on it - I'm not going to focus on history if I keep thinking about how when break comes, some asshole is going to punch me in the face, like they always do. What I'm saying is - I think that the school system needs to be personalized to the individual student a lot more than it actually is, in a way that the

modern schools are just not prepared to handle. I recognize how hard that is to put into practice - I know that school is the way it is in part because it is something everyone has to go through. But jesus christ, I work 6 hours a day during school, more time with the homework (If I'm not so fucking tired after school that all I do is lay in bed!) and quite honestly I am miserable because of it. There's got to be a better way of doing this.

My teenager has more hours of homework per night than I got in my entire university career, and it doesn’t teach them a goddamn thing besides how to hate themself for not being able to do it all.

If my wife isn’t expected to labor outside her designated work hours at her literal job, why is my teenager expected to labor outside theirs?