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You'd think being a teacher in a liberal school district would be at least somewhat "progressive" but nope, just about all my fellow faculty were gambobrained hogs that liked to snicker about "feeemales" whenever they got the chance (including students ) and would get really uneasy about thugs walking past their Ring/Nextdoor fortresses.
I’m pretty sure Cop-Teacher is the most common marriage in the US in terms of professions (excluding one/both spouses being unemployed or staying home).
There’s a reason why schools look and function a lot like prisons, and a certain type of chud attracted to the disciplinarian system.
Unlike cops there are decent teachers out there, who really do strive to help kids how they can. The environment and funding and support is just not there.
I did my best for as long as I could, but the testing industrial complex wanted kids to fail so more schools could get privatized so it was always an uphill fight to teach kids anything but the tests themselves, and I had to resort to shortcuts and the like just to try to get them to pass the corpo rituals just for their own sakes.
And oh yes, there was a lot of security theater in the school, including armed harassing kids constantly.
I wonder what's up with that perception. Like, I meet "progressive" teachers a lot, but that's because I largely meet "progressive" people a lot.
To a lot of fairweather liberals, they see "progressive" as "the world is full of tourist attractions and I can score sophistication points by indulging in that."
A local example was "DAE LE TACO TRUCKS" enthusiasm while at the same time muttering in "polite" company about how much they didn't like them sticking around after building their houses and maybe mowing their lawns.
One of my teachers had multiple units about the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement as part of the curriculum.
Photos of Abu Ghraib came out and we were watching it on the news. The student news anchors were commenting on photos of men being stripped naked and tortured about how barbaric it was. My teacher then said "Yeah but they're terrorists trying to kill us."
Most of my respect for her died that instant. She didn't care about the Holocaust because it was the fucking Holocaust. She cared because it happened to people that looked like her.