The Tolerant Ones

I like a happy ending.
I suppose that depends on whether said teacher winds up in another middle school and with much the same attitude. Which seems quite likely. Note too, which of the participants – the child or the adult educator – is the one having trouble maintaining self-possession.
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When I was young I knew some people who went into teaching so they could win young souls for Christ. The zealots now belong to a different faith, but th self-righteous dishonesty and cowardice is the same.

I don’t think she was ever seen at the school again
Not entirely surprising given the circumstances.
Things seem to be little better now, according to a recent House of Commons report:

21.7% of newly qualified entrants to the sector in 2017 were not recorded as working in the state sector two years later. The five year out-of-service-rate for 2014 entrants was 32.6%, the highest rate during the current series, which dates back to 1997. The ten year out- of-service rate for 2009 entrants was 38.8%; this is also the highest rate since 1997

A number of these never come back, but apparently others move into private education as it’s less the teaching and more the behaviour of the children that’s a leading cause of driving them away (together with an excessive amount of paperwork, much of it for government data monitoring).
But it’s interesting how teaching seems to attract so many people who are fundamentally ill-suited to the job.
Sometimes I wonder if many if not all teachers are fundamentally ill-suited to state-funded public education almost by definition since they are graduates and therefore have a proven interest and enthusiasm for education that won’t be shared or even comprehended by a good 60-70% of the children they are going to teach.
The gap in mentality and understanding of what school is for in the eyes of many parents/children on the one hand and teachers on the other is likely to be so wide in some schools as to render any more traditional notions of education seem almost futile (a situation in which ‘progressive’ methods find a way in as the final nail in the coffin).
I suspect the majority of new trainees are either naive and idealistic or else cynical and opportunistic.
The former need to radically revise their expectations or else turn into something so ethereal that they are no longer affected by what’s going on around them.
The latter probably end up as heads of department in no time at all, and if it suits their ambitions, aggressively promote whatever is most likely to win them plaudits (such as CRT, now).

Ersatz life.
Today’s words are performative and hysteria.

… trying to recover it as “dip”, short for “dipstick” …
No. “Dip” is short for “dipshit.”

Would she call gay kid a “gay jerk”?

Sometimes I wonder if many if not all teachers are fundamentally ill-suited to state-funded public education almost by definition since they are graduates and therefore have a proven interest and enthusiasm for education that won’t be shared or even comprehended by a good 60-70% of the children they are going to teach.
There’s not much of the world where most kids don’t want to learn. Sure, a few blighted inner-city schools face that reality, but not the majority. Kids enjoy learning, and it’s not their fault that we have systems that make that difficult for them because basic rules of discipline and personal responsibility are now out of favour.
You can be rude all you want about public schools, but the countries with the best systems are often 100% public. The success of Asian schooling isn’t due to them being educated privately. Even in the US there are public schools that compete with private schools. In much of the world being educated privately means you are either foreign or have been expelled from the public system. The US system had more private schools than most of the OECD, but it doesn’t mean they do better (far from it, in fact).
In my experience the private system is often much more on-board with progressive ideals than the public system. Witness the current fuss at Eton. Note that the universities in the US that are most woke are private ones. I’ve taught at private schools, and they aren’t that superior — except in intake.
You really need to go a little deeper than “public sucks” or that “teachers suck”.
You might look at things that actually matter. Curriculums that focus on the wrong things. Teacher unions that prevent poor teachers being sacked. Lack of competition within the public sector. An unwillingness to drill kids on basic skills. Poor selection of primary school teachers, preferring enthusiasm over brains. Parents that don’t support the teachers when they try to correct their ill-behaved kids. Kids that are obsessed with their phones so much that they can’t concentrate on anything else. A culture obsessed with celebrity over talent.
There’s many things wrong with modern education, but you need to actually look. Slack-jawed “I hate teachers” really doesn’t get us much further forward. Because in the end, you can’t have schools without them.

Has that done it?
The italics overflow was my fault. You can imagine how that chafes.
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Kids enjoy learning, and it’s not their fault that we have systems that make that difficult for them because basic rules of discipline and personal responsibility are now out of favour.
I don’t mean this to come across as antagonistic, but genuinely it seems to me that the first part of your sentence (“Kids enjoy learning”) is contradicted by the second part (“basic rules of discipline and personal responsibility are now out of favour”).
You can be rude all you want about public schools …
With respect, I really do not think I was being rude about public education at all.
My point is that young graduates who go into teacher training after leaving university are, for the most part have a mentality and attitude, both likely born in their home and social background, that is quite different from the majority of children they are going to become responsible for teaching.
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This means that from the outset they may find it challenging to get into the mindset of students who are just not that interested and who may have very different ideas about the importance of education.
This is particularly true in the UK where many newly qualified teachers find themselves sent into the worst performing state schools – an experience which research from the House of Commons shows sees them dropping out of the profession altogether within two years of qualifying.
Or, as noted, they move into the independent sector not because education there is “better” but because the children, for the most part, are likely to be less disruptive on the whole (and if they are disruptive may be more likely to have parents who support the teacher, not take the side of the child).

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[ Slides large gin and tonic along bar to Nikw211. ]
Hair of the dog.

What’s in this?
It’s best not to pull on that thread.

If only we were educated and clever, like this chap.
Such tiresome pseudo-knowledge. I wonder if getting assaulted repeatedly by black racists would open up his mind.

If only we were educated and clever, like this chap.
“Lastly, there isn’t an original thought on racism that has ever come from a white mind”
Irony can be pretty ironic, especially coming from a pasty yte sporting afro puffs.

“Lastly, there isn’t an original thought on racism that has ever come from a white mind”
All the original thoughts that this Superior Being praises are merely clever and not-so-clever lies. And what’s more, many of them were invented not by blacks but by pasty white Marxists. (Endless repetition does not transform a crude lie into a clever insight.)

Because in the end, you can’t have schools without them.
Clearly, we have had very, very different contacts with the “professional” education “system” in ‘murrica.
Very different.

That.
Maybe one day someone will shake him and say, “These aren’t even your own thoughts.”
He’s essentially a parrot. A preening regurgitator.

He’s essentially a parrot. A preening regurgitator.
Would a spray bottle of hamster urine shut him up?

If only we were educated and clever, like this chap.
George Floyd did hard time in prison for committing an armed home invasion robbery and sticking his gun into the belly of the pregnant resident. I’m not quite sure he’s an aspirational model.
Personally, I just don’t have the stamina anymore for a George Floyd lifestyle. Sounds like lots of running, chasing, and hiding involved.

Would a spray bottle of hamster urine shut him up?
Frankly, I’d much rather find out how you managed to get a hamster to piss in a bottle. That sounds like a great deal of effort…

The caring & compassion of the ‘woke’ is a wonder to the world.

Frankly, I’d much rather find out how you managed to get a hamster to piss in a bottle. That sounds like a great deal of effort…
Mandatory random drug tests? I thought of asking David, but then decided the answer would be Too Much Information.

Just another data point demonstrating that Transgenderism is more about social contagion than actual dysphoria. Classic cult behavior.

I’m still processing the belief that the way to “feel more masculine” is to dye your hair blue.
It’s just like how you fight racism by segregation. How eliminating the police and criminal justice system reduces crime and poverty. How letting the government run your life gives you more freedom. In fact, it’s exactly how you have to be really, really smart and educated to understand these things.

Superman?
He’s a fairy, I do suppose
Flying through the air in pantyhose
He may be very sexy or even cute
But he looks like a sucker in a blue and red suit
You need a man who’s got finesse
And his whole name across his chest
He may be able to fly all through the night
But can he rock a party ’til the early light?

Meanwhile, in a diverse neighborhood in Washington DC peace and harmony on glorious display.

Or let’s not think of them. That is a creepy website.

Let’s pause to think of the foot fetishists.

WikiFeet, a website that exists for the express purpose of rating and reviewing the feet of various public figures,

I have to say, that held my attention longer than expected.

I have to say, that held my attention longer than expected.
[ raises eyebrow ]

Native American religious origin myths
Indeed, from the same article “…stories of supernatural creatures, such as a trickster coyote who had a big steamboat that he used to float down the Columbia River”
Sounds legit to me – and nothing to do with their elders’ access to children’s TV programs!

We must not surmise that the Noble Injuns might lie.
Of course not. Now where’s my turtle, damnit….

See also here and here.

Lecturers at the University of New South Wales “have been warned off making the familiar statement in class that ‘Aboriginal people have been in Australia for 40,000 years’,” The Australian reports. Instead, they should state that “Aborigines have been here ‘since the beginning of the Dreaming/s’ because this ‘reflects the beliefs of many Indigenous Australians that they have always been in Australia, from the beginning of time, and came from the land’.”

with 600 tons of rock and fill to prevent further discoveries.
I see a future Indiana Jones movie!

In Australia, a piece of woke history – Bruce Pascoe’s ‘Dark Emu’ – claiming the status of ‘agriculturalists’ for our Indigenous inhabitants – has encountered some serious scholarly pushback.
Selective quotation and the omission of evidence that does not support a thesis has been traditionally regarded as a gravely serious violation of scholarly ethics. But perhaps it is now seen as justified when done in the service of the left.