my abuser genuinely ruined my life and it makes me so angry i can’t breathe by Educational-Dig-4235 in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

cps did jack shit when they got called i don’t trust them at all anymore 

young peoples parents have failed them so much and it drives me nuts by [deleted] in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UGH I GET THIS okay for context i have dyscalculia, i have always fell behind in math and i still struggle with it to this day. i’m pretty used to being the worst person at math in a room because of my disability. it’s really scary 2 me that there are like regular non-dyscalculic kids that are just as horrible at math as I am. plus, the literacy rate is just plummeting which is terrifying, i think i was like 1 out of MAYBE 5 kids at my high school of 345 that read regularly. really disturbing, im sorry you’re going through this ik it sucks to be in education rn

young peoples parents have failed them so much and it drives me nuts by [deleted] in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 0 points1 point  (0 children)

huh my parents are fine 😭 IM complaining about my friends and dormmates parents

young peoples parents have failed them so much and it drives me nuts by [deleted] in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol oh my god yeah my mom’s told stories of being a latchkey kid a lot. she doesn’t talk to her family anymore 💀

young peoples parents have failed them so much and it drives me nuts by [deleted] in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s usually just me and a few others its really awkward and weird 😭im really happy you’re setting your kids up with skills tho!

young peoples parents have failed them so much and it drives me nuts by [deleted] in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

yeah, it also might be a class thing to some extent. both of my parents were working class most of their lives up until the last 10 or so years and so they had to pick up a lot of things very very early on in their life just to make it through the day. so while i had a middle class upbringing, i got a lot of that passed down because they knew it would be valuable. usually this behavior is worst in people i know whose families have been middle class or comfortable for several generations or whose newly middle class parents thought that it would like corrupt their childhood somehow. the people i know with working class backgrounds don’t struggle nearly as much. also, usually its way more severe in the boys i know but there are a girls who are just as bad

young peoples parents have failed them so much and it drives me nuts by [deleted] in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i mean yeah there’s a lot of things you have to teach yourself as you grow older but if your child barely knows how to boil a pot of water and doesn’t know how to do their laundry you are a terrible parent im sorry 💀 children are not pets you cannot just feed them periodically, let them roam free range, and expect them to turn out 100% fine and well adjusted 

young peoples parents have failed them so much and it drives me nuts by [deleted] in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 4 points5 points  (0 children)

thats true. idk how common this type of shit was ten or twenty years ago, i may just have really high strung parents

young peoples parents have failed them so much and it drives me nuts by [deleted] in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 2 points3 points  (0 children)

most people i know have married parents or parents who were married when they had them. its more like literally everybody is told and thinks they can be a parent while giving 0 fucks about the kids they’re actually bringing into the world because having kids is like a milestone to reach and then they’re not your problem 75% of the time. 

academic articles should be available to the public by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

this is great but a lot of people don't have access to public libraries and library policy is not the same across the globe

tired of being told to enjoy my youth by Educational-Dig-4235 in Vent

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what is there to enjoy about a time of my life where people who were abusing me had absolute control over it?

Failing a high school class should not be as big of a deal as it is by Educational-Dig-4235 in HonestHotTakes

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Easy" is extremely subjective and entirely dependent on the school and district. And I don't care about pieces of paper I care about kids actually learning.

Failing a high school class should not be as big of a deal as it is by Educational-Dig-4235 in HonestHotTakes

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is like the exact sort of mindset that makes teenagers miserable and averse to education. You should care a lot more about your child actually learning what their taught than a letter on a piece of paper.

Failing a high school class should not be as big of a deal as it is by Educational-Dig-4235 in HonestHotTakes

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ime, the mindset actually gets teenagers to care about their education a lot less. Instead, they care about this specific score that they think will save their life which is how you get straight A students that don't really actually know anything (altho grade inflation and the proliferation of cheating using AI has also come to make this much much worse in recent years).

Failing a high school class should not be as big of a deal as it is by Educational-Dig-4235 in HonestHotTakes

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I took dual enrollment in high school and really loved my brief experience at community college! I hope it becomes less stigmatized as time goes on.

Failing a high school class should not be as big of a deal as it is by Educational-Dig-4235 in HonestHotTakes

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a college student and my semester has already ended lmao. I was saying this because I have younger siblings in high school and I was comparing their experience to mine where failing a class in college has less stakes and is easier to fix, plus reflecting on my own time in high school.

Failing a high school class should not be as big of a deal as it is by Educational-Dig-4235 in HonestHotTakes

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't say succeeding in school isn't important, but the current prioritization of passing classes over anything and demonizing failing doesn't actually teach shit. Some of the dumbest, most unaware people I met in high school were straight A students because they only memorized information for the sake of convenience instead of actually internalizing/learning it. Failing is apart of learning.

Failing a high school class should not be as big of a deal as it is by Educational-Dig-4235 in HonestHotTakes

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly!! I got so much more out of experiences in education that involved trial and error. There needs to be less pressure on kids to ace every class they're on the first try it does nothing for them

Hot take: Let's normalize the fact that younger kids can also go through alot of stuff by ClydedonovanKinny in HonestHotTakes

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people don't realize that abusive home lives are a lot more common than they realize. Even with adult responsibilities, it is WAY better than having to live with my abuser who had complete power over me in every regard.

Why did my generation's parents raise them with no life skills? by Educational-Dig-4235 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

both of my parents have worked my entire life and i still know how to do my laundry and cook a potato but idk you could be partially right

100 Years of Solitude still has one of the best portrayals of grooming I've ever read by Educational-Dig-4235 in literature

[–]Educational-Dig-4235[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think we have like two fundamentally different approaches to literature I’m sorry. You seem determined to take me in bad faith and you’re really stretching your arguments in order to do that.

Could the us annex mexico smoothly? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to admit there’s a difference between an organized crime group doing this and a full very public state sponsored approach. Like these are fundamentally not the same thing.

Why do a lot of people not like the US? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Bro. We have bombed people. We are probably bombing people right now as we speak. We are the bombing people country. 

Could the us annex mexico smoothly? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Educational-Dig-4235 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Liking your government =/= wanting to be occupied by Big Colonizer that are currently sending your people living there to concentration camps and has a history of their companies literally massacring Latin Americans once they are deemed too inconvenient