#but to really go into why media literacy isnt taught as well as it should be in schools

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There is a post on Twitter saying people need to teach media literary in schools again. There is a bunch of people saying they do, and it's called English/literature. I am wondering wtf they are talking about or if my schools failed me that badly.

(Old memories, so some wording might be off/hunger games was like a year or two old, so this is probably 2013/14/15, and I was like 12/13/14 if that helps?)

One of my few memories of English class is watching the Hunger Games and the teacher saying, "If we were in the world of the hunger games, seeing the games would desensitize us to murder. This is already happening with people watching shows like Game of Thrones." We were told to talk with those at the table about that. I openly disagreed with the statement.

That made the teacher come over. I was asked to explain what I meant. I said something like, "If we lived in the world of the hunger games, it would be different as those would be real kids dying on TV, not fictional characters." She disagreed and told me I probably already was desensitized. She then asked if I saw people dying on TV would I not feel upset or other negative emotions. I replied that if it was on the news, like a report on war or something 100%, I would, but if it was something like a Marvel movie, I wouldn't. She then told me that she was right and that I was so desensitized that I cant/don't properly worry about others because of it. The table I was at agreed with her.

This was one of many rants she would go on about how what you like in your stories/your writing is what you like in real life. For creative write lessons, she would point out anyone who did "darker" stories and call them desensitized.

I assumed I was wrong because, of course, the teacher was right. I ended up shaming people online of this stuff because it's what my junior high teacher taught me. They (people online) were bad people because of the shows they watch.

Some schools teach reading comprehension, others fumble it, the school system sucks in general and a lot of portions are fumbling for a variety of reasons, such as short staffing, cut funding, general student behavior, etc.