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funny thing is, here in the real world and not conservatard fantasy land, the better the public sector, the better the society.

Being born e.g. Norwegian, Danish, German, or Japanese is winning the birth lottery.

Being born American, Chinese, Somalian, etc, not-so-much.

Our public sector isn't terrible, but it's been under attack for all my life, and I'm no spring chicken.

Ironman says

I put you down because you don't belong in a classroom by yourself with a bunch of kids with your delusional, twisted, fucked up, clueless grasp of life and reality. Knowing that you're feeding those kids YOUR version of the world and reality, as twisted as it is, is such a dis-service to their personal growth.

There are a lot of good teachers in the world... unfortunately, you ain't one of them.

The fact that you get paid by the public to spew your delusional crap to these kids daily, is totally an injustice to the taxpayers and parents of these kids.

I teach Mathematics. Not sure you know what that is, but it has little to do with politics or my personal beliefs. It might help students with their logic and critical thinking skills, but for now, in my Math class, it's only as it pertains to matters that are not debatable in the slightest, by anyone. Someone may for example have an approach to proving a trigonometric identity, that's different than one that I show the class. That's great. I love it when they come up with an interesting way of thinking about something that I hadn't thought of in that moment. That means they are participating, and that they're in to it. That's what it's all about.

The kids are awesome. We get silly sometimes and have a little fun, but mostly it's about the Math. So I don't know what you could possibly be thinking.

Hope you're feeling better soon (because you seem to be very ill). Try to consider what I suggested.

marcus says

Maybe you could turn it around a little somehow by experimenting with different behavior. Maybe try out gratitude, or kindness, or smiling, I could think of others but those would be good place to start.

Also, you probably would live longer with better health if you could have less hate, anger and fear in your life. Just a suggestion.

Bellingham Bill says

funny thing is, here in the real world and not conservatard fantasy land, the better the public sector, the better the society.

Yes, true. But somehow in their bubble, facts and truth are some kind of liberal conspiracy.

marcus says

I teach Mathematics.

Interesting - are you having to teach the new 'core curriculum' ? What do you think of it?

mmmarvel says

Interesting - are you having to teach the new 'core curriculum' ? What do you think of it?

Yes. Overall it's not the boogeyman right wing media make it out to be. Longer story though. It will be a transition for a while, before I even see incoming kids that came up with common core.

You HONESTLY think that people who bully do so due to low self esteem; Actually most people who bully do so suffer from no lack of self-esteem and actually have a very HIGH self-esteem.

Genghis Khan was a mean bully but since he impregnated 1000s of women, I guess that was due to low self-esteem also.

marcus says

or who don't even respect teachers all that much, but without needing to put it down. Only someone with extremely low self esteem behaves that way

Yeah, they did new research on this and the low self-esteem is an outdated idea based on weak data. Bullies don't have low self-esteem, but they are terrified of "Shame".

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/intense-emotions-and-strong-feelings/201010/do-bullies-really-have-low-self-esteem
http://news.nationalpost.com/health/provocative-new-study-finds-bullies-have-highest-self-esteem-social-status-lowest-rates-of-depression

Which is why many bullies usually back down from somebody willing to fight back: Their risk tolerance for losing, even if small, is too high because of their fear of shame.

Also outdated: High self-esteem = success.

Many little Sarah Goldmans have low self-esteem, and grow up to be Doctors. Many little Shaniqua Browns have high self-esteem and go on to get knocked up at 16 with 4 kids by 25, on welfare.

Kids walk to school?

A truly liberal high school would have vending machines dispensing crack cocaine, burner phones and ammo. They would include nurseries so that girls could start collecting their first child support checks at 13.

If the little fat fucks can't run fast enough from the gang bangers, they need the exercise, anyway, and it's better survival training than a wilderness program in Alaska grizzly country.