re: #600 Obdicut

But he wasn’t mocking those kids at all. There’s no ‘yuk yuk’ in his statement at all.

I think you’re reading him completely wrong. As a teacher, he’s saying the previous teachers failed. And sometimes that may be too harsh a judgement, but since it’s his own profession, it’s a standard he’s holding himself to.

I think you’re letting passion for your friends carry you into a strange place in this conversation, where you’re now yelling at a dedicated teacher because he said something that you misinterpreted.

Maybe I am. I’m cooling off. But the yukyuk I spoke of was the “wow, those kids don’t know the romans didn’t have fighter jets” I dunno, that just rubbed me the wrong way, as if a teacher was teaching kids that. “Remember kids, the greeks had teleporters and power armor.” No teacher told a kid that, there is no “disgrace”. Maybe I’m a bit sensitive about this issue and how it ties into my experiences. But agreed, it is in a strange place , and what I’m saying is really more just aimed at the conservative arguments against public education and this meme of there just being all these bad teachers and they must be the problem because they should be able to work miracles.

But yeah, apologies to alex