#American education systems

[criticallycynical]

Also didn’t learn about the real deal with the Puritans until well into COLLEGE when I took an ELECTIVE Sociology class in which we studied Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism about how the tenets of Calvinism spurred the rise of capitalistic economies in Europe and North America. So yeah, funny that according to most U.S. education systems, the colonies’ founding on religious extremism/terrorism and capitalism gets glossed over or framed as the religious persecution of some poor Puritan pilgrims, waah waah waah.

[agoodflyting]

Fun Fact:

I got an angry email from a parent last year because I showed Coraline in class. (On the last day before a holiday! Not even during normal class!)

They said I was unfit to be a teacher and that I was a 'threat to the spiritual well-being of (student)' because I subjected their (13-year-old) kid to 'unholy things'. They also said I had single-handedly shaken their faith in the school system.

Because I had shown Coraline. To a 13-year-old.

The most ridiculous part is that the kid went home and was talking about how much they *enjoyed* the movie. I'm not sure if the parent was just looking for something to get mad about or if they honestly think Coraline is capable of destroying the souls of the innocent. 🤔

[distant-traces-of-beauty]

"Ballistic markings are the fingerprints of a gun" is to the Ace Attorney universe what "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of a cell" is to the American education system

[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

[oneshotgremlin]

happy Friday everyone

[l-herz]

Adaine and Aelwyn: Bite the Hand

[mental-mona]

I was expecting this article to be a series of conspiracy theories and/or railing against "woke madness." It is not. It is a series of horrifying trends and examples of antisemitism disguised as anti-Israel sentiment in American public schools, particularly Californian schools. (Even if it was only anti-Israel sentiment, it'd still be extremely excessive.) Both the teachers and the kids get in on the ideological nightmare and personal attacks, sometimes the latter because of apparent encouragement/indoctrination by the former.

[deimosatellite]

hey, want to hear something that might or will radicalize you on the state of the US education system as it comes to the real goals of public versus private schools?

this might be something well-known to some people, but having grown up in public school i didn't know the true extent until i went to college and talked to other students who had gone to private school--and they hadn't known the vice versa.

it was brought up casually when talking about admissions. someone who had gone to private school brought up how our university (a prestigious, private university that i had only found out about through one of my teachers) had visited their school directly for recruitment--along with many other "prestigious" schools such as ivy leagues, which all sent representatives to this private high school. and that this was common for private high schools.

on my end, the only recruitment going on at my public high school had been constant visits from the military, as well as a few visits from the public state-run universities, which cost an arm and a leg due to being severely underfunded in endowment by the government. i heard this same story from others at my college who had gone to public school. and the military visits were CONSTANT. advertising that they would pay for school, support you in every way.

and those i met at college who went to private school hadn't known about that. they were HORRIFIED.

like, yeah. the barriers to college for first-generation and those in lower socioeconomic classes couldn't be more mask off and tangible than those very conflicting accounts.

[oifaaa]

Some people on that school post I made are saying stuff like "just like in blank fantasy world" yeah fantasy worlds like Ireland bc that's the school system I grew up with

[redbuddi]

While I do believe it can be difficult if not impossible to separate art from artist, especially when the artist is still alive and their success leads to actual institutional change, I think it is absolutely imperative to remove art from fandom. No matter how annoying a fandom is the art can still be good, and no matter how seemingly kind and accepting a fandom is the art can still be harmful. But most of all it's important to come to your own conclusions about a piece before engaging in discourse about it, or else no proper analysis will ever be able to be had.

[wowitsverycool]

for anyone wondering this is the current state of american public education

[aurae-rori]

i fucking love slandering the american education system with ratio

so im writing for csm aventio au right.. and aventios first proper conversation.. is.. about the american education system...

[segretecose]

i once bullied tumblr into learning the difference between renaissance and baroque paintings which is further proof that being a cunt works if you are gentle with these people you'll get no results it's when you hit 50+ "uhm the american education system..." replies that you start to see real change

[zevranunderstander]

number #1 tactic that people use to not sound as racist as they are when they talk to black people: 'uhh so you AMERICANS need to stop pretending everything is about YOU. why should i know this im not from the us :/' (= is talking about like. a phenomenally internationally well-known black artist)

[batwynn]

Woke up thinking about the report I made in my high-school freshmen science class about some of the evil shit Monsanto was up to when the teacher asked for something about the environment, and how he gave me a F because it was ‘not based on facts’ because I focused on some of the more direct and local environmental problems they caused. Like certain rivers next to their company plants being severely contaminated, and the ground/earth contamination studies done around multiple towns near their buildings. He claimed I was making stuff up and ‘dramatizing’ the damage they caused because he ‘hadn’t heard about any of that.’

Like, buddy. Sorry you don’t have ADHD and a parent with access to world-wide libraries, science journals, and Jstore but I cited my sources and you can, presumably, read?

Anyway. Fuck Monsanto forever and fuck people who think their breadth of knowledge is the extent of reality.

[dramatic-dolphin]

can u guys stop mentioning american political stuff on my posts like it's relevant, i don't live there + i don't know what that is + i don't care.