Official Kiwi Farms Public School Hate Thread

[Osama Bin Laden]

idk i was pretty social at school and had a good time

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Fifty/fifty on them actually being worth a damn.

Same here. Because this is the public school hate thread, I didn't mention it, but for the teachers that were awful, I also had my few that I enjoyed. Unfortunately, those who are truly dedicated to teaching without interjecting needless bullshit into class are becoming few and father between.

This is a list of some of the worst bathroom rules I've seen (irl or online), if anyone else knows any others I'd love/hate to see them:

I consider myself lucky that I went to high school at a time where only one teacher of mine had strict bathroom rules and he admitted it was only because he had students lie about needing the bathroom only to get caught doing stupid stuff instead such as smoking outside one of the side entrances. Most every other teacher I had assumed trips to the bathroom were legit unless proven otherwise and such instances were dealt with individually as they occurred.

That list of rules sound like what most schools have in place now. Definitely draconian and don't seem too accommodating to kids with medical issues or needs to visit the bathroom frequently or for longer intervals than average. At the same time, i can understand that too many kids today are vaping, texting, vandalizing, or doing stuff in there they shouldn't be doing and schools don't want to deal with that.

I'd love to know why American public schools are the way they are. I went to school in a low-income area, and while we definitely had our fair share of psycho kids, we never had major issues with bullying or LGBT stuff being foisted upon us and the teachers were mostly good quality (for reference, I graduated in the COVID era). OTOH, I know a couple guys who were homeschooled and they're kind of socially inept and can't hold a job.

It's a reasonable question with no simple answer unfortunately. I went to public high school (and a public university after) and people by and large got along with each other without having to be told to avoid being rude to subgroups of people. Sure my high school had gay people (and possibly lesbians) but the golden rule still seemed to apply back then: as long as they weren't being dicks towards their classmates or going into TMI detail about their sexual interests, most people didn't give a fuck about someone's orientation.

As with anything, there can be outliers and exceptions. Some public schools may still be decent on the whole and some home schooled students can be socially awkward and a bit squirrelly.

I think over time, the gradual evolution of politically correctness into Social Justice (and the other related forms of Justice) has done more harm than good to public education. Maybe it doesn't answer @Geoform 187 's question, butperhaps it offers some sort of insight.

Maybe you guys should spend more on education and less on wars.

More money in and of itself doesn't solve the problem. Most of the time it either goes to teachers and/or administrators in the form of higher salaries or it gets squandered on frivolous items or through corruption. If I recall, Detroit Public Schools was spending around US $12000 per student before bankruptcy - more than some of the more affluent districts in Michigan - and the students still performed poorly because of the ongoing waste and corruption surrounding the use of that per-student funding. School districts need to be good stewards with their funding, but they have no incentive because - here at least - funding is based on property taxes that almost always gets adjusted up for inflation. As such, schools can usually bank on getting more funding the next year without having to worry about cost controls and getting the most bang for their buck.

 

[Kurt Eichenwald]

Cunt bitch teachers never appreciated my origami dragons, I was proud of those too.

 

[Android raptor]

Public schools in the Bible belt would rather lie to kids and continue leading the nation in teen pregnancy and STI infection rates than give them comprehensive, medically accurate info about reproductive health.

States like Texas would rather build entire high schools just for pregnant teens and teen moms than teach kids how to put on a condom.

 

[King Metalia]

The thing I hate the most about public school is "zero-tolerance," bullies get to skate by without any repercussions and get tolerated, but as soon as one of them puts hands on you and you fight back, you get punished for it.

My high school principal was so extremist about this, he once asked me, "if I had a gun and you had a gun, and I shot at you, what would you do, PleaseBearWithGunfire?" I responded promptly with, "I'd empty the whole magazine into you." This motherfucker is so zogged in the head that he genuinely expected me to just lay down and die or run away.

He was genuinely afraid I was going to shoot up the school because I was autistic and had a history of fighting back. I'd classify myself as a forgiving, reasonable guy, but fuck him in particular.

My high school experience in general involved bullies getting away with fucking with me as well. That and teachers refusing to discipline the little bastards.