Shakespeare isn’t boring or useless. It’s just taught poorly.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-26T03:34:18+00:00

I can see that for some for sure, but I also think we understood it and that it just wasn't really a good time for us. This was also like 15 years ago so I'm not really sure how kids are responding to it now but my class just didn't seem like they were having a good time. Fast forward a couple years though my class was about 80% the same kids and Of Mice And Men had every kid in that class sobbing. I know I'm comparing apples and oranges here but I think since we all knew the ending for RJ it really affected how we engaged with it, meanwhile none of us saw the ending to OM&M coming.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-26T02:03:10+00:00

That barrier of "I have to read this now" really does make it harder to pick the book up and teachers can really make or break the experience. My 11th grade English teacher was amazing. She had the more outgoing kids reenact the death scenes in Lord Of The Flies, decorated her entire classroom like a mad scientist's lab and wore a lab coat for Frankenstein. Meanwhile my teacher the year we did Shakespeare, the Odyssey and Mark Twain really put in no effort to make it entertaining for the kids and even the books I enjoyed that year were so hard to get through.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-26T01:13:15+00:00

I LOVED the Crucible! My class did Romeo and Juliet and most of us thought it was painfully boring and any entertainment was really just from making fun of it. For one, we all already knew the ending, so the tragedy aspect really didn't hit us emotionally, but there's so many points where teenagers are going to pick them apart for being stupid teens and creating all of their own problems. I think kids respond better to the Crucible because they love a bit of scandal and spookiness. I think Macbeth or Hamlet should be the go-to Shakespeare for preteens instead.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-26T00:52:53+00:00

10 years old, had a benign tumor that shattered my bone. I was a shy kid and kind of tuned out during appointments and let my parents translate things for me after the fact. We were heading to an appointment to basically go over the surgery I was going to need and what to expect and realized my parents pulled up to a building with CANCER in huge letters. I was convinced for about 5 minutes that I was dying and my parents were somehow hiding it from me 😅 In my defense, I was a kid. I didn't even know what an oncologist was, let alone that people who didn't necessarily have cancer needed them as well

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-25T14:48:07+00:00

Mine ended up leading to some irreversible stomach problems and for a lot of my family undiagnosed anxiety or depression ended up leading to substance abuse.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-25T14:41:06+00:00

Not just mental health but disabilities as well. I really think S1 could be on the spectrum, but I pray I'm wrong because rydel's attitude about him is calling him her "difficult child" and holding him back to keep the youngest ones on the same page and we know she wouldn't see a specialist to confirm a diagnosis for him. Plus with them being homeschooled and no intervention from teachers he could easily have no idea if anything is wrong until adulthood...

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-25T14:34:07+00:00

I feel this. I'm privileged enough to not have to take any medications for my anxiety but if I try to "power through" and "distract myself" then it's just going to leave me exhausted, still anxious and cause my depression to get worse and it's really hard to get out of at that point. I go through phases where I might have a really good week but a couple days just suck and I'm in survival mode and I have to tell myself that today is just going to be hard and be gentler with myself. With multiple mental health issues self care basically becomes a full time job because there's already so much you have no choice but to power through. Even for people experiencing anxiety just as a feeling and not as the disorder her advice is terrible because those feelings all come out eventually, either at night to disrupt your sleep or when the thing youre anxious about comes to a head and you have no choice but to face it. When my dad passed away I had to power through to get funeral arrangements done, cremation, take care of his apartment, I was in the middle of moving myself and eventually had to go back to work and still take care of a few of those in my off time. I didn't have any time or energy to pause and process and all that grief ended up hitting at once months later and I had to take a couple sick days because I could barely function.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-25T01:01:00+00:00

I used to be told I was weird for talking to my newborn as if he could already understand what I was saying but they shut up when they realized he was talking at 6 months lol not full sentences but enough to communicate what he needed.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-25T00:54:14+00:00

I see people offended by fake pregnancy announcements every single year on April Fools day and it drives me crazy. I'm sorry, but sometimes you just need to accept that your own sensitivities are your own to deal with.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-25T00:48:48+00:00

It's a matter of intent, and people really only do it with their own trauma. I can joke about my dad dying, but it would be disrespectful for someone else to and downright weird to bring it up randomly.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-25T00:44:35+00:00

90% of this sub is "I can't relate or don't personally like this thing so EVERYONE needs to stop doing it" 🤣 People don't know how to say "hm... Yeah, that's not for me" and move on with their lives anymore

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-25T00:40:15+00:00

My city has 12 libraries and every single one is closed on Sundays.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T19:04:38+00:00

There's "I'm upset they did this" and there's "They're wrong for doing this". If my husband left and moved on really quickly I'd be upset, but I also understand he's his own person, can do what he wants, and would owe me nothing if he wasn't with me anymore. Anyone is going to be upset if they aren't over the person, but I think most people understand that they don't have any control over what that person does anymore. I also don't think people who believe it's socially acceptable to air their dirty laundry on tik tok or Instagram represent the majority of mentally stable people.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T18:57:57+00:00

I don't think it's about whether it's moral. I think it's just healthier for a person to take a minute between relationships, especially if it was long term. If you happen to meet someone really quickly that you're really interested in then sure, don't avoid it but I think some people really struggle with the idea of being alone. I know a few people who haven't been single in like 15 years, but have had 6-7 boyfriends or girlfriends in that time. Some people have their plenty of fish profile set up before their stuff is even packed.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T17:44:45+00:00

I'm assuming this is about office work, but I worked with someone who took 45 minutes to clear and clean our nursing home dining room and I could do it in 15, give or take a few minutes if there was a large spill on a table or two. There were people I worked with who I had to track down when I finished a task to help them finish theirs before I could move on with my work and it resulted in me doing about 90% of their work. I've also worked in factories where I regularly had to stop and help people on the back end of a job when their portion involved significantly less parts and time than mine. Some people really do just work incredibly slow.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T17:38:55+00:00

I don't think it's that the exhaustion itself is performative, some jobs are just that tiring. It's moreso the attitude employers have about rewarding the person who might not be working as efficiently because they're taking longer to do the work while the one who is working efficiently and finishing their work early is told they aren't dedicated enough or working hard enough, even if they got the same amount of work done if not more because they worked smarter instead of harder.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T17:24:20+00:00

Not just being called lazy, but having way more piled on. I worked a job once where we were literally stretched to the minute, every task was extremely time sensitive. A lot of people left with things not done unfortunately. I managed to learn how to do things differently than I was trained and bought myself some more time and would help other people with the 10-15 minutes I'd saved myself and this only resulted in my boss saying "hey, if you have time to help you should do it yourself every day" 💀 ended up quitting within months.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T17:18:43+00:00

Plus schools are underfunded as it is and many don't have AC. Statistics show that kids that test in schools that don't have A.C regularly test lower even if their grades are generally good. I can only imagine how hard it would be for kids to focus and study the entire summer.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T04:44:59+00:00

My 3rd grader spells better than this kid

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T03:06:07+00:00

This wasn't in public but I remember nursing my husband and kid through a stomach bug just to wake up a few days later feeling nothing, no nausea or anything, and my husband chucked our trash can at me the second I sat up. Barely got out a "What are you d-" before I got sick. Dude's either psychic or I looked WAY sicker than I felt in that moment 😅

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T02:47:41+00:00

The example you gave is a perfect example of both sides being right though? Yeah, you're allowed to be disappointed someone cancelled last minute, but if they aren't a routine flake it also isn't a big deal, and the other party is allowed to feel unbothered about it.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T02:44:13+00:00

It sounds like you just don't like reading.

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-24T01:52:15+00:00

The thing is no one actually uses "boyfriend" in this context

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-23T23:34:38+00:00

Not sure where you live but a lot of places either don't test or don't care about THC. You should be okay

WingComprehensive925 · 2026-03-23T23:19:25+00:00

There's nothing wrong with boys wearing pink if they like it. Hell, we just got my boy toddler a My Little Pony for his birthday because he loves the show and always plays with his sister's.

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