I don't know a teacher who would say that tho
My personal experience has also been that the students who don't understand the material never say anything, fall behind to the point where they just give up because it would take too much effort to remediate, and post Rick Sanchez "school isn't for smart people" quotes on Facebook with a high school diploma.
Yep.
A major problem that people don't understand with college is that it is far more willing to let you fail compared to high school. A lot of young adults aren't used to dealing in a environment that doesn't provide immediate negative feedback on failure or non-performance. They hit one hiccup, can't come back from it, then spiral out until they flunk out.
No, but they might easily run out of time to help one student understand if the rest of the 25 kids in the class are ready to move on.
I see you didn't have my 10th grade chemistry teacher.
Or my 6th grade math teacher.
I had several teachers who would make a sport out of insulting students. Also in 10th grade... Coincidence?
Look at you there, having nice teachers that don't bully you in front of the class for their own personal pleasure.
I think I knew one teacher that might, but he was a bit of a nut. Listened to imus, so that tells you something
A guy I knew in school became a college professor. He'd absolutely call his students stupid. A friend of mine sent me a link to his "Rate my Professor" page and apparently his class is mostly full of people failing miserably. A load of Quality=1 and Difficulty=5 and complaints about how he makes fun of students who don't know things. The only good thing people had to say was that he had clear grading criteria.
I was having trouble with long division in school in the fifth grade. I had a piece of shit tell me 'I give up'. He did it too. For the rest of the year he ignored me. When I was in high school he was dying of cancer and the rest of the class got upset that I wouldn't donate anything or sign their card. They refused to believe he ever did that.
I had a teacher who told the class that atheists are stupid if that counts.
I had several teachers like that in highschool. I didn't go to the best school.
we didnt use excel when i was in school
I love the nearly racist truth that there are clear tiers for countries and helpful YouTube content.
Are you an Electrical Engineer? You want a man of Slavic descent.
Computer scientist? Indian man.
Programmer? You want either middle east or (vaguely) American white guy.
Physics? White girl; geographic region not important. Or black American man.
Mental Health: woman either American or vaguely from geographic region of India.
Mathematics? British accent or Asian descent.
I am not sure why this pattern seems to exist, but it feels present. If you seek help on YouTube with any of these subjects I imagine you've seen it.
Like if I'm looking for an explanation on Colombs Law, I want a guy that sounds like ElectroBoom. If I need to know about Discrete Finite Automata, Ill click the first guy with a turban. If I want to know about the poincare conjecture, Im looking for snaggletooths. If I want the latest from James web, I'm looking for a ponytail or Sabine.
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I feel like even SEO acknowledges this prejudice.
Are you an Electrical Engineer? You want a man of Slavic descent.
But the god of all electricians is Iranian
The rest I can't argue with at all though
Iranians and Slavs are both Indo-European, which is almost what I wrote. And literally after googling ElectroBoom's accent/nationality
Well it has to do with culture/educational systems.
For example in Japan they still teach the abacus(soroban) as they see it helps visualise calculations which makes mental mathematics easier.
On the flip side Japan barely teaches spoken english and focuses mostly on written tests. So the typical japanese person can read/write english but can barely form an english sentence when speaking.
I feel called out by the electrical engineering part, I did tinker with electrical stuff ever since I was a kid and know a ton of shit about it >!(Also explains why I suck at programming but that's not the point)!<
That sounds like an American pop culture and entertainment characters check list.
Programmer? You want either middle east or (vaguely) American white guy.
Don't discount Scandinavians here
Yeah, Aussies too. I should change that to "white dudes aged 25 to 35"
Indian man on YouTube put me through college 10-14 years ago. He's a real one.
It wasn't that my instructors were discouraging me or anything. Indian man just has a way of explaining things.
I tried so hard to listen but the accents are too thick sometimes. You should get a certificate for being able to understand after all that.
You must do the needful
--Indian man
When I was young we had a Smith-Corona PC. It was like a suitcase.
Anyway, I had two things I could learn from - Lotus 1-2-3 and Leisure Suit Larry.
I didn’t learn spreadsheets.
Edit: add pic of Primitive portable PC preceding Passionate Patty’s play.
Lotus 1-2-3 […] I didn’t learn spreadsheets
What do you mean? Lotus 1-2-3 was a spreadsheet. It was THE spreadsheet.
He learned LSL instead.
Nearly every time I've needed to learn how to get around an issue in flashing a custom ROM onto an Android device, it's been South Asian YouTubers' tutorials that saved the day.
What issues can you have. I have never had any problems with flashing roms to phones.
Well, that's nice that you've never had problems. But issues I've seen over the years, range from not having certain functions working after the flash (generally needed specific firmware upgrades prior to the flash), not having the device recognized by the PC without additional steps, needing specific custom recoveries, bootloops, being stuck on splash screen, needing extra steps to unlock the bootloader (e.g. Xiaomi), not being able to easily downgrade Android version (sometimes needed as a first step prior to installing alternate OS's like Ubunu Touch), even soft bricking. Plus, in learning how to flash custom ROM's in the first place, guess who provided me with the info on how to do it.
Teachers: "We're doing the best we can. It's all the parents' fault for raising these no-learning-ass little monsters. We've tried literally everything, and there is NOTHING WE COULD POSSIBLY DO to rescue the nation from this nightmare of continually stupider people. None of it is our fault, and if you even think about suggesting that we should be held accountable for our job performance, you are actually evil."
Also teachers: "If you kicked us an extra twenty or thirty grand per year, you'd really start to see a lot of improvement."
I mean, it is probably easier to teach when you have adequate funds for supplies, and are paid a wage where you don’t have to hold down an extra job to make ends meet, having more attention and energy for teaching. One would think at least
That's true. And I was exaggerating for effect. But the fact remains that you can't have it both ways.
Either you're doing everything that can be done, and nothing can help these little shits to learn OR you need more money, and that would fix the problem.
Pick one of those messages. Not both. Both things can't be true.
EDIT: Please do pick the "we need more money" message. It's actionable, at least. I'm all for raising taxes on the top 25 percent wealthy motherfuckers and putting a lot of that dough into education and directly into teachers' salaries.
We should at least try that. See if it works. The other message is just "the kids are dumb. The parents are bad. We're all screwed. Always kiss teachers' asses, though, whenever you see them."
Both can be true. Teachers can be doing everything they humanly can with the constraints and budgets they're given by the people in charge, whether it is public or private schools. They're still people who need food, water, shelter and clothing, and so many teachers pay for the supplies they need with their own money, cutting into their ability to afford basic necessities.
Having more money available to pay for teacher's aides, and for the necessary supplies would remove a lot of the burden and barriers teachers face when actually teaching.
many teachers pay for the supplies they need with their own money
They just shouldn't do that. It should be actually illegal to do that. I really mean that.
Imagine if this shit was going on, in the construction industry. Imagine if we got into a situation, where the people who hire construction contractors refused to pay for enough building materials, and then the contractors refused to pay for those materials, and then the actual construction workers started bringing in steel and concrete, from home.
That would be BEYOND STUPID. Nobody would do that. But if they DID ever do that, it would completely destroy the economy, and basically make sure that no buildings could ever be built or repaired.
Rather than telling the people at large that they need their asses kissed, the response should be to tell the districts: "well, I ran out of supplies, so I couldn't teach." If that functionally means a strike, then so be it. It is ethically problematic, because of the actual futures of the actual kids involved...but it should have been dealt with sharply and directly, all along.
Instead, teachers are coddling governments and middle managers by taking the burden onto themselves. I know it's easier said than done, but they need to start saying "no," rather than saying "please help me, out of the kindness of your hearts."
