Thread by @owenbroadcast

at the heart of this new weird debate about if parents have a say in what their kids learn in school is this: most teachers went to high school, decided to become teachers, went to school for teaching, graduated, + started teaching. they have no conception of life outside school.

remember when you were in high school. imagine if since that time you had always been in a classroom. your whole life. your whole life has revolved around classrooms. since you were like, five years old. thats literally the only thing you've ever known your whole life. imagine.

SOME teachers are really cool and not like this. however for a significant percentage of this, this (literally only ever living in relationship to a classroom and school) has vastly warped their perception of life. this is just a fact that is obvious if you're around it and them.

SOME teachers are real fully fleshed out people that actually have a genuine real dedication to teaching that is noble and they're cool people. however some of them are just "still in school", and they always have been, and they always will be, and this explains a lot about them.

i almost went in to teaching, i thought it was cool. i didnt not go into it for this reason. i met a lot of cool people that genuinely taught me a lot and shaped my life positively. but theres another side to it. how they talk about teaching, school - thats just the reality.

the guy i learned the most from, one time i asked him, i said, i feel like i'm not friends with the kids. and he said, you're not. you're their teacher. they already have friends. changed my perception a lot. however, a lot of them dont operate that way.

https://twitter.com/ferd_t_berd/status/1494075450011926534?s=20&t=h2NYJW7EmYUrVAyZdPypPg

its just worth thinking about. you may even find it interesting to go back through your high school memories and view it through the lens of being an adult now, hmm i was fifteen then, that teacher was really casual with us, then think about, they're at work. at their job.

some people won't know what im talking about but if you went to a certain kind of school you do. theres a lot i could say about this. just something interesting to consider. in fact even just the relationship between these two separate points is very interesting.

every profession has negative manifestations + natural pathologies. im an artist. i also was a drug addict + alcoholic. well thats part of the negative manifestation of the role i chose. everyone knows about that one but the negative manifestation of other roles is less discussed