#us schools

[arctic-hands]

No but seriously the United States desperately needs to have a discussion about segregation against the disabled in our school systems and we can start with how anti-masking and perfect attendance policies have forced medically vulnerable kids to either put themselves at grievous risk or pull out of school all together

[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

[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 

[kick-a-long]

you ok Seattle?

She's gonna get the kind of fired where you have to change your name.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[heartforce830]

for all of the talks in schools about why they are banning phones, they never seem to address and try to help why kids and teens focus on their phones in the first place( They only seemed to think the cause is addicting apps) and why they doomscroll. For the kids and teens, it’s can be a safe space for them and let them be who they are privately and talk about the issues worrying them. Because maybe in the community they live in, it’s either shut down by people or even dangerous for them if they are something that the community hates. Look at some of the issues that kids and teens are worried about today (Climate Change, Right’s to their body, LGBTQ plus, School Shooting, etc), those are issues still plaguing the states but yet there’s hasn’t been any attempt by schools and community to make it safe for them to talk about this issues, help out or just feel safe, not worry about being killed, forced to be a gender they are not and being forced to carry a baby they may not want to full term and be jailed for having a miscarriage. Not to mention the fear of a certain orange man who will lead a dictatorship that will cause what they fear. But everyone tells them to keep it to themselves or have them kidnapped in the middle and send to a prison camp if they misbehave too much in their opinion. To those teens and kids, those phone bans mean being stripped of one of their only safe spaces for even eight hours. Not to mention a relief form nonstop stress

to go with the drug addict comparison that Schools always make about phones, if you want to help a addict, get to the source of why they got addicted in the first place. Understand why they use the drug so you can figure out what’s the best way to help them so they don’t have to rely on the drug in the first place and eventually break the habit.

[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.

[wincestuous-psychos]

I’m sorry but I stopped feeling sorry for Americans still in the school system after learning a majority of their exams are multiple choice. I never had a single multiple choice test, not a single one in my kindergarten through to university education. Save for maybe ONE in primary school.

Don’t get me wrong, your education system is still a 2/10 and sucks ass but Jesus Christ. Half the work is done for you already… probably more

I’ve had Americans tell me that I “didn’t understand how hard they had it” boy, I was doing 3-5-6-8 hour exams with zero multiple choices. I had to do full page working questions worth like 6 marks in second year in high school. (Age 14) you do not know pain until you have to write for three hours in paragraphs with more questions than minutes. My wrist actually had to go in a brace one year

Like I know y’all have it bad but fucking hell, grow some balls.

[laurabstar]

If the school dress codes were actually worried about "distracting outfits", they would've banned neon/bright colors and colorful patterns, which are way more distracting than a fucking tank top.

[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!

[arctic-hands]

Remembering that time my friend came into 8th grade with a cold and had a bag of Halls Strawberry Fruit Breezers and gave me and the rest of the table one each bc I in particular loved those fucking things, then my teacher lost her absolute shit and screamed at her and threatened to have her arrested for passing out drugs

For context of this story, Halls aren't even marketed as cough drops or have any medical claim in practically every country other than U.S but are instead sold as hard candy despite having the same chemical composition all over the world

[aweekoftodays]

being a "bad kid" in school will teach you more about the us schooling system than anything ever will