I’m excited. Are you excited?
this is like CRT for chuds
Crucial Communism Teaching Act
:sicko-yes:
Rep Crenshaw
:sicko-no:
I’ve got a friend who does speech pathology in a Houston suburb. Liberal as hell, but otherwise a genuinely goodhearted and decent person.
Her first week on the job, the thing all her coworkers warned her of straight out of the gate was that she should expect to get sued by a parent. Parents would sue you for not giving their kids enough time. Or for giving them the wrong kind of therapy. Or for giving them too much attention (because then they’d be out of regular classes). Or for favoring another kid over their kid. Or for failing to fill out this or that form of arcane documentation. Or for not providing approval for this or that higher level of treatment.
Every parent was scrambling to get their kids the most resources. And the most effective way to win this tug-of-war was to literally sue individual faculty members assigned to give your child that care.
This is, admittedly, Texas. And the suburb is absolutely overflowing with PMCs, particularly lawyers, with far more money than sense. But I’ve got a few neighbors who are teachers. I’ve got friends who are teachers. And they all kinda confirm that the profession is an absolute shit-show statewide, because of how poorly everything is funded and managed. The faculty are absolutely shit on all the time as a matter of course, because shitting on faculty is the most efficient way to get your kid to the top of the pile.
It’s a textbook instance of the term “Kafkaesque”.
And they all kinda confirm that the profession is an absolute shit-show
statewidenationwide
Almost all of the cool teachers at my highschool quit all at once and it’s not better anywhere else…just worse
It actually worries the fuck out of my because I have to wonder what the cumulative effect of all this is going to be. No one is having kids, and the ones that are popped go straight into an anti human meatgrinder with zero resources to cope unless they’re booooooj. It’s going to create superpredators with like, fins and shark teeth. It’s going to create socialist superpredators (SSP), and a few Aryan Apex Animals (AAA)
it’s bad :doomjak:
Probably gonna create more fascists since we’re all atomized and only get our political ideas from media now, the vast majority of which is owned or influenced by the capitalist class.
Idk I feel like trying to convince people of anything nowadays is like screaming into the void. You have to compete with a million media sources saying the opposite. Maybe I’m just a defeatist
Shout out to the cool cats in the youtube comments who are big mad at their epic bacon marvel representative for signing some vaccination registry.
Can’t wait to see what the Texas statutes on mandatory public school subjects look like in ten years, provided Texas has not demolished all of its public schools to build Whataburgers surrounded by giant parking lots by then.
We’re already well past the breaking point. So many of these testing mandates and teaching requirements and documentation standards are piling up that nobody can keep up with it even in the “best” schools. We’ve got a teacher shortage. Kids are falling behind full grade-levels at an accelerating pace, particularly after COVID. The state’s only move is to raise costs and fire people, without paying for the balance they incur.
Teachers are pissed. Parents are pissed. Charter schools are either highly exclusionary or outright scams, so there’s no relief there. I don’t know whats going to come of it, as we’ve got 5.3M kids in the system, atm, and there’s at least some tacit recognition that dumping them onto the street would be a bad idea. But the idea that you can just do D.A.R.E. for Communism and make this all go away is… optimistic.
All private schools, they can teach whatever they want, the only requirement is anti-communism classes.
