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The problem isn’t that there were arbitrary rules even, the problem is the justification for the rules were sold as for your benefit when they were for the teachers benefit.
She didn’t want you reading ahead not because it was important you are part of the class discussion but because she hadn’t read that week’s lesson plan yet. She didn’t want you to read above grade level not because you weren’t ready, but because those books are unfamiliar to her and she won’t be able to grade the report. Showing your work is important for gaining mastery, but once you’ve achieved mastery it’s just busy work, but that’s how the grading template tells her to grade your work.
If you were a smart kid in a school without the resources to keep you interested in school, you had to deal with authority figures giving you arbitrary rules that were against your interests in favor of hers. It’s not the end of the world or anything, but it was a frustration.
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus
It’s true, every halfway intelligent right winger I know irl had a massive conflict with at least one elementary teacher over things like: reading ahead, reading too difficult books, not showing enough work, etc etc. it’s the first time we experience the uncaring tyranny of state bureaucracy and it sucks.
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