• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I also see it for teachers tbh. Like individually or based on unions as a group it’s not like they go cop horrible but also I don’t think most school systems are all that great for children

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          2 months ago

          My own probably got me primed to take a bunch of real conspiracies and CIA ops seriously when she taught us about the US sinking their own vessel, the USS Maine, to provide a casus belli for the Spanish American war. second-plane some tricks never get old

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      Boy do I have some stories from my time at school.

      • Yelled at and written up for wearing my lunchbox as a hat when I was 5 years old
      • In middle school, one of the teachers habitually screamed at her students so loudly that you could hear her from adjacent rooms
      • Written up for touching a paper cutter. Not using it, not even moving the arm, but just resting my hand against it.
      • Humiliated in front of a class for saying that separation of Church and State meant that America wasn’t a Christian nation
      • A history teacher who had an open and explicit policy of grading football players more leniently
      • Recurrent substitute science teacher who pushed young-earth creationism and said I couldn’t be an atheist because I was a nice kid
      • A playground aide who had a habit of saying “don’t come to me unless you’re bleeding” and yelled at my brother for coming to her when he was bleeding
      • So much capitalist indoctrination I don’t even know where to begin

      I had some good teachers growing up, but they were definitely the exception. By no means does the profession belong in the “inherently illegitimate” category with CEOs and landlords, but I fully believe that under capitalism, it’s an indoctrination and enforcement arm of the bourgeois.

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          2 months ago

          you don’t even know the half of it man, coaches and college recruiters will take football players out to restaurants, hook them up with girls, hell multiple investigations caught athletic staff buying cars for players. Especially in the southern united states, high school and college football is a state religion

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            2 months ago

            To play devil’s advocate the south is just shitty like that and maybe having them rally around sports is the most benign option.

            Short of dramatic overhauls, of course. But that takes time and money and this is the United States where time is just used to measure how long until the Rapture happens and money is for cops and military.

            So again, distracting the confederates with football might be the least worst we get.

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          2 months ago

          Pep rallies are mandatory events where they corral all the students into the gym to make them clap and cheer for the football team.