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Republican lawmaker nearly died amid new Florida abortion laws – but blames the left
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Which is why my elementary and middle school teachers hated me. Take a fiercely logical kid who has no qualms about pointing out contradictions, put them up against an authoritarian (who, let's be honest, probably works with kids because they're guaranteed to have power over them), and you're gonna end up with an angry adult and a kid who's regularly put in detention.
I have zero regrets. Authoritarians can get fucked. The only good thing I can surely say they'd ever done, was that they managed to radicalize me before puberty.
I don't know your teachers or situation and I am going to wildly generalise here, but having worked with teachers, they were probably just their best.
They are teaching a syllabus they didn't write (you can only put so much make up on that pig) to a group of largely disengaged students, for generally insufficient pay.
They probably just wanted to make it through the day without contemplating self harm.
A spirited contrarian student who fancies themselves an intellectual can be dealt with the ideal way, engaging them, acknowledging the short comings of teaching content to a wide range of intellects/engagement levels.
Or the less ideal way, draconian authority. Sounds like you ran up against the former. Sorry that was your experience.
I wish I could agree, but my schools had two types of teachers: newbies who were desperate to prove themselves, and tenured teachers who gave no fucks. Even the "cool" science teacher couldn't admit the truth when I came in with three different sources proving he had been spreading a myth to my class. There's no excuse for teachers who can't admit they were wrong - they have one job, to educate. Spreading false information is the opposite of what they should be doing, and I cannot forgive that.