Nobody believed in me
Nobody believed in me
My physics teacher stapled McDonalds applications to kids tests when they failed.
77This is the equivalent of “you don’t want to be like that Janitor over there” energy. Needlessly mean to a specific class or profession because they don’t see it as valued.
69Yeah, teach sounds like a dick. A HS physics teacher doesn't even make that much more than a GM at McDicks and probably less than a McD District Manager. Sounds like the teacher should've made better career choices, maybe they'd be a physicist instead of just teaching. You know what they say: Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
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Damn that’s hardcore.
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What?
51"Rappers are lying when they say that teachers told them they wouldn't amount to anything. They just told you to read aloud, and you got mad."
173Haven't we all had at least one exceptionally shitty teacher though?
I've been in the room when Mr fucking Stephens told a kid that he'd never be an artist and to pay attention. Is little Jake an artist today? No, he's a welder, he has 4 kids, and he still loves to draw. Granted Jake never thought art was an option but I'm not sure 7th grade biology is coming up in his daily life either.
72Gangsta CC lol
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A meme or common trope about rappers is they say that their teachers told them they would amount to nothing.
This person says some of them are lying to act like a victim, and what actually happened is the teacher made them read aloud to the class which they may not have been good at, and it made them angry so they made up the story I mentioned previously.
42It also subtly hints that the teacher was a big part of their becoming a rapper, because reading aloud means articulating in a strong voice under pressure.
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Some of y'all didn't grow up in the southeastern US and it shows.
Not all of the teachers in my school were unreasonable narcissistic sadists, but about half of them were.
46Did you consider going to a good school?
Smh kids these days won't even force their parents to change school districts
27It's like they won't even try to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
13They don't let you redo in a good school. Trust me, I looked.
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Generally speaking those who haven’t encountered evil think reports of evil are exaggeration and myth.
22Wow, have you even tried being born to a socioeconomic status that put you in a better school zone??
15Idk if that’s the right qualifier. It should be “rural”. Because when people aren’t stupid, and they live in the city, they’re gonna get shuffled into classes pretty early with all the other not stupid people. But in small towns, small classes, you’re gonna see everyone. I’ve witnessed teachers saying this to kids over and over, and it’s because we didn’t have a choice. There was no fancy classroom either of us were escaping to.
Is a tired trope tho
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brbbuzzkill here 😬 funny meme make sad (which never happens with you TPM 💙)
32Oof, that is incredibly upsetting. I don't know how we fix this.
13Removing profiteering would be a good first step. We got here by neolibs deciding that everything was fair game to make money on. So, millennial, zoomer, and future generations' educations were sold off. For decades, literacy education has been using systems developed to allow people with learning disabilities to be functional in modern society, not to foster reading comprehension.
6Overhaul the entire tax system and how schools are funded. Good luck.
4I think for a lot of people, reading of kind of a luxury they don't have time for. Kind of hard to hone your literacy skills when you're living hand to mouth.
Then again, I'm a self taught engineer from a poor immigrant family. So who the hell knows.
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Do you know what the proportion of native English speakers vs non-native speakers is in the US?
It doesn't diminish your point, but probably that non-native speakers skew the stats a bit if they are included in the stat.
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Teachers do get a bad rap.
24🥁
3Third grade was the case that they gave me
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Nah, the teachers where I am absolutely will say, quite literally "You won't ever amount to anything, why are you even here? Shouldn't you be dealing drugs on some corner somewhere?"
15Ohio is getting crazy these days.
4Hustle hustle hustle!
2No, they don't.
-5I'm so glad for you to be living in such a great area of the world where it doesn't, or to be a passing skin color - I'm happy that you've been sheltered from the realities such as this. I would give anything to have that kind of privilege. But I live in the real world, not sheltered white suburbia.
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I had a teacher when I was 9 who hated boys. She was cruel and threatened to fail me for the year. Every other teacher that year, I had no issues and was doing great. This one had a vendetta and seemed to want to ensure that none of the few boys in her class would pass. My mom was luckily a strong advocate for us though and almost got that bitch fired.
10Confusion intensities
9In reality it was your dad who said you were useless.
5Rappers are lying about what their teachers said, they didn't say "you won't become anything of importance", they just asked you to read out loud.
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