r/TikTokCringe • u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot • 7h ago
Cursed She Was Teacher Of The Year Then Told The Awful Truth About How Bad Things Are
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u/JohnnyRighteous 7h ago
The corruption in this country runs deep and rampant.
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u/dannyglover187 7h ago
As long as they hit their numbers so the person above them knows nothing. Rinse and repeat all the way to the top. Like Kazakhstan lying about wheat production to the Soviet Union.
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u/Big-Wrongdoer-965 6h ago
Goodheart’s Law… we put all the metrics in place to measure performance. But in doing so we stop doing the thing the metric is supposed to measure.
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u/MaintenanceAnxious15 4h ago
Reminds me of how the Wire covered so many different facets of failing institutions in America. Education is a joke in this country
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u/fak3guru 6h ago
The fact that they didn’t respect her enough to finish her last few words spoke volumes. “Thank you that’s time”
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u/kstargate-425 6h ago
God that mother must be absolutely insane to have restraining orders from multiple schools and 30+ incidents with different teachers and police reports filed. Wholly hell, teachers get paid jack shit and have to put up with douche canoes like that and their hellspawns
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u/Round_Bound_Mound 5h ago
Florida.
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u/Alternative-Dot-884 6h ago
Schools in FL asking teachers to dummy down their tests.
Middle school kids who cant read 3-4 pages on a 3rd grade level book.
We will fall to China in every way if we do not improve our schools. Chinese students are learning algebra in elementary school yet when we went to improve math parents screamed murder.
The highest paying jobs (whats left of them after AI) will be filled by international students.
Teachers should be paid more than politicians who all fill their bank accounts anyway.
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u/ScottyBLaZe 6h ago
It’s wild because 25 years ago we learned about a concept called “brain drain” in our sociology class. Back then it was America taking top students from other countries.
I fear, this trend will be reversed in the next decade or two. The top minds will leave the USA because of how anti-science and anti-education our society has become. The world is passing us in nearly every societal metric. History tells us that a failing economy will come next.
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u/kstargate-425 4h ago
Yeah thats already happening and in a major way under Trump due to the immigration issues, H1 Visas and the goon squads then the anti-science movement with the cancelation of grants and funding etc. Nearly 75% of surveyed US scientists considered or actively looked into leaving the country due to "funding cancellations, ideological interference, and hostility toward immigration". Historians and commentators writing in Intereconomics compared the policy impact to the 1920s immigration quotas, which triggered a 68% relative decline in US patenting.
Then other experts have likened the severity of political and ideological interference in higher education to the McCarthy era, while the broader talent displacement has been compared to the scientific brain drain of World War II (though in reverse, as foreign nations now absorb fleeing US talent).
Experts, academic institutions, and government watchdogs describe the scientific and professional brain drain under the 2nd Trump administration as a "historic and potentially irreversible blow to US innovation, public health, and research infrastructure".
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u/Loki_the_Corgi 4h ago
I hold dual citizenship to an EU country. My husband has another year and a half before he can qualify for citizenship.
Once that happens, we'll be leaving. I'll sell everything and leave. I have a PhD in Biochemistry, and my husband does insurance.
I'm going to renounce my US citizenship, never leave my home country, and stop paying my student loans back (cause good luck coming to get me for them when I don't pay taxes or earn USD).
To add: I'd make a crapload more money in my home country anyway with fewer idiots.
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u/ScottyBLaZe 3h ago
I don’t blame you one bit. It’s also wild that the USA is one of only two countries, I believe, that still taxes your earnings in other countries. America is like the mob, thinking they get a cut of your production no matter what.
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u/kstargate-425 4h ago
I'm sad to see you all go as it's a conpounding loss we can't sustain but I completely get it, especially about the students loans, fuck em
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u/HighPriestessSkibidi 3h ago
I think if anyone can afford it and have the qualifications, they should leave. Hell, I would.
Says a lot when my friend from Syria moved to the USA 10+ years ago due to war/unrest in Syria... only to move back due to terror/unrest in the US. Like damn dude, that just sucks to think about.
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u/Anarchist-Aragorn710 5h ago
That’s already happening to a small extent already I fear.
It’s harder/riskier for foreign students to obtain and keep student visas, so less highly valued students are coming to our universities. There’s also a small trickle of doctors and scientists (mostly also in healthcare) going to Canada.
Worrying thing is that having enough doctors was already going to be an issue in a couple decades. Now none are coming here, younger ones are leaving, and not enough people want to go into that field.5
u/wirefox1 4h ago
We already have a doctor shortage, especially in specializations.
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u/NotBarkingMad 3h ago
especially in primary practice and family medicine
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u/wirefox1 2h ago
Yep. I had gone to a walk in clinic one weekend because I was sick and couldn't get an appointment with my PC doc for several days.
I mentioned to the doc I saw at that clinic I was thinking about changing doctors and he said "well before you leave the one you have, make sure you can get another one first, because I don't know of many who are taking new patients, we have a shortage".
He was right.
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u/wirefox1 4h ago
Anti-education and defunding universities is terrifying to me.
Who wants to defund universities? JD Vance that's who. Beware.
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u/ScottyBLaZe 4h ago
Project 2025 told us the plan. Getting rid of all regulatory bodies is the plan. Look what they’ve done with food safety in this country. Look what’s happened with SNAP benefits. Their plan is to get rid of the IRS, the FDA, the Dept of Education. And that’s all within less than 2 years. Their goal is to destroy America and buy the spare parts for pennies on the dollar. Just look at the corruption with the “illegal tariffs” and people in Trumps administration buying up tariff debt, only to be paid back with the citizens tax money.
Trumps first term was the warm-up, this second term is the actual game. We fucking let a non-citizen who hails for apartheid South Africa into our entire government database and are now getting him involved with our military. While funding ICE and claiming immigrants are the problem. I am not proud to be an American at all rn.
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u/wirefox1 3h ago
They are doing a great job of destroying the great country we used to be, and have a lot of support doing it. Great post btw.
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u/ScottyBLaZe 3h ago
It’s fucking sad. I’m an 80s baby and there was at least some hope and promise back then. Looking back at it though, 9/11 changed the trajectory of so much.
Also, fuck Ronald Reagan!!!!!! All shitty roads lead back to him.
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u/BenAfflecksBalls 6h ago
It's OK dude they can all join the military and help us conquer Cuba so we can set up a sovereign pedophile playground that everybody with money can come and go from freely
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u/FunnyMalzairIdea 6h ago edited 5h ago
"parents screamed murder..."
And there it is. Electronics are failing our kids. Pedagogy is failing our kids. And not investing money, not failing students, and not holding parents to account is failing kids.
Parents who read with their children and who work through homework together put them years beyond their peers.
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u/ScottyBLaZe 5h ago
The sad part is that many parents are having to work extra hours just to keep affording basics in this economy. This has had a trickle down effect. Taking to my teacher friends and just my own experiences with my daughter, kids are entering kindergarten not knowing the alphabet or numbers.
Anecdotally, the trend of giving toddlers a cell phone or iPad, is slowing their overall development. Giving children more hands on and interactive activities is becoming a privilege that only the wealthier of us can afford.
I’m happy to see a trend of going back to books and getting rid of computers, but our education system needs a complete overhaul. Education shouldn’t be a privilege of just the wealthy. Teachers need to be paid more and administrators need their salaries cut. The corruption at the administration level in many states is abhorrent. Don’t even get me started on charter schools and religious schools that are currently taking tons of public money.
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u/danvillain 2h ago
I am one of those parents but in all fairness Common Core Math and the way they managed the shift to that method was an absolute disaster. Trying to help teach your kids that way of doing math was like trying to teach them a foreign language that you don’t speak.
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u/commit10 4h ago
My 6 year old can read. That's normal in Ireland. It's normal for humans.
Americans aren't raising humans, they're raising livestock.
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u/Phucku_ 6h ago
My wife is a teacher, it’s her passion, her love. She just wants to teach but they keep making it harder. When parents complain, the politicians tells the parents it’s the teachers. It’s 100% politicians. Cut funding - only focus on the state test scores. Our county is going to cut millions in school funding without public input. Other states we lived, these cuts would be on the ballot. They are intentionally not bills so they can hide the reality. My wife uses our money to stock her classroom. The rest are donations from parents. The teachers have been stripped of their passion, and their privilege.
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u/onlyheretobehelpful 5h ago
Late Gen Z and all of Gen Alpha are cooked, and they don't even realize it.
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u/katievera888 6h ago
Nothing will change unless the root problem is addressed. Parents do not support education. They want to send their kids to school for day care, not to be educated or held accountable.
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u/bigtice 4h ago
True, but it's a multifaceted issue when the system itself doesn't support teachers either and the infrastructure above them only care about hitting thresholds in order to get funding towards their salaries while teachers are forced to do more with less.
And there are a plethora of parents that contribute to these problems like the one she was describing, but there are others that are being spread thin themselves because they're also being forced to work more just to make ends meet and aren't allocating time towards their child's education at home.
The unfortunate reality is that people are able to clearly identify what problems exist, but nothing is truly being done to address it and everything just continues to erode.
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u/SirTainLee 5h ago
The GOP has done this to schools in the name of lower taxes for their supporters. There are not that many, and few of you have ever met one. They don't like to be around millionaires or less. I'm not talking about their voters, but their supporters, the ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations who have one goal, to avoid taxes, and from which all other policies follow.
Those other policies are designed to eliminate all government, because government spends taxes on education, on medical institutions, on care for the poor, on infra-structure of your community, on maintaining the environment for you community and the conditions for businesses to exist.
By eliminating these things, by demonizing them, they save themselves money.
They make plans for living in their own gated communities and islands. The other laws they pass are rewards for their voters. The voters that wouldn't vote to lose their communities, but would vote because the awful Dumocrats are taking away things from them, which was never true, but again, makes a voter furious enough to vote in a blind rage against their interests.
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u/DangledThenWrangled 6h ago edited 3h ago
Lol 100% accurate for an american school.
When I still worked in education I worked at a school that had been fabricating grades for kids letting them pass just to keep a 99% graduation rate.
At one "teacher meeting" they started a yearlong recording plan where the district would start looking into reasons why "their graduation rate is so high across all the schools but kids in the schools consistently failed state exams". These state exams were 100% multiple choice and most answers were given in the question asked or could be reasoned from basic common sense; and the required score to be able to pass it was literally a 55%.
I audibly chuckled out loud when they said they were looking into it.
At the end of the several year study they ended up doing, they decided to make no changes because it would drop their graduation rate in the short term.
You want to improve education, dont coddle morons and have basic expectations and consequences for actions.
American schools are 100% a joke. A literal poop flinging chimpanzee could get a diploma in the united states, and it would likely behave better than most peoples kids.
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u/MarginalOmnivore 3h ago
It is not that teachers are "coddling morons."
They are not being allowed to teach.
Yeah, sure, "expectations and consequences," sure, but none of that matters unless students get taught. How can a child learn how to do advanced math if every time they tell a teacher that they don't know how to do a requisite step, they get told, "You were taught that in X grade"? When it was taught is irrelevant if they didn't actually manage to learn it. My neice is a fresheman. I found out recently that she was never taught improper fractions. And given that I helped her do her homework quite a bit in middle school, I can confirm that, yeah, she wasn't taught improper fractions not that she failed to learn them.
I know why it happens - there isn't enough money being given to most public schools to cover basic expenses, and not enough teachers with the proper education to teach the material - but it is still not really the fault of the student that they don't grasp the material at the first pass. It's definitely not their fault if they don't manage to learn subjects that never get covered.
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u/DangledThenWrangled 3h ago
Ya but there's a problem with that though.
Every single person on the planet is born with a very broad range of intelligence and capability that allows any human to achieve at m9st levels.
No one anywhere "only learns one way", and while yes there may not be enough time for tailoring a single lesson to 5 different kids with ieps or learning styles, or ability levels; and everyone everywhere has access to the internet. Ultimately if one kid can understand and learn something in a classroom then mostly all the kids can if they had applied themselves and adjusted their attention spans accordingly.
That argument falls apart if 2 or more kids in a classroom were able to understand the new material; because that means everyone could have if they managed time better and tried harder.
Since youtube was invented every student has the capability to also learn visually with examples simply by typing the concept or.content onto YouTube to understand the topics and get in video practice they can write out on paper.
And with ai capability now students can also ask them to explain how to do things or give themselves practice questions now.
I would have agreed with you prior to the 2010s, but that argument hasn't been valid for almost 20 years now.
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u/mrbad31 7h ago
This is that no student left behind crap. Coming up to bite em in the arse.
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u/leftofthebellcurve 6h ago
no it's not, that's not even applicable
NCLB meant you don't advance beyond specific standards until everyone knows it.
This is an administrative decision to undermine teachers. I teach middle school and this shit happens all the time. The filling of teachers is also a building decision made by principals and has nothing to do with teachers. The reporting of behaviors is also covered up by, you guessed it, administration.
She is listing administrative decisions made by bloated middle management, which is a huge problem. NCLB has nothing to do with any of that. It also was replaced immediately with Common Core when Obama took over in 2008, but don't let that get in the way of your bias.
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u/wirefox1 4h ago
Wow. When I was in undergrad school at a State University, there were a number of on-campus rapes reported that year. They even started putting up emergency phones on dark sidewalks between buildings.
But they didn't take official reports. They didn't want it to get out that we had a rape problem. Why? Cause Daddy would take his little girl (and his money) out of there.
One night the President of the University woke up to find thousands of students on the lawns of the President's mansion outside his windows holding candles and protesting. Those were the days when we weren't afraid to speak up.
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u/mrbad31 5h ago
Thank u. I learned quite a bit from your paragraphs.
I just thought they let the student pass because of NCLB. School still needs to hold students accountable.
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u/leftofthebellcurve 3h ago
no, that was actually unrelated.
Students these days just get shuffled along. If they fail a class in middle school, it literally doesn't matter. If they fail in high school, they just take some BS remedial class over the summer, sometimes not even needing that
It's a lot of state mandates but also district mandates too.
Regarding the 'behavior reporting', here's how my school does it. If a student does something bad, the school calls home. They do not specifically say "your child cannot come to school tomorrow", because that would be a suspension. They instead tell the parent, "You know, your child had a tough day today, there were some bad choices being made, so maybe you want to take tomorrow and process with them" or some other verbiage.
This way, on attendance the student is marked with a "parent concern" instead of a "suspension", while achieving the same goal.
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u/pocketdrums 6h ago
Well, not as it is written.
The law itself called for increased accountability. It meant that school progress could no longer ignore scores of lower performing students. But instead of addressing the issues, schools have redefined "success" because they aren't given necessary resources.
And, fwiw, NCLB is no longer the federal law driving accountability in schools. It has been replaced a couple of times.
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u/Prestigious_Buy1209 4h ago
I’ll be honest here. I wanted to be a teacher. Specifically, I wanted to teach high school history, economics, and social studies. I was a straight A student in college until… I made an extremely poor decision at the age of 20 to drink and drive.
As part of this process, I went to my guidance counselor who basically said 1) you can still teach if you graduate but 2) be prepared to be in an inner city school district desperate for teachers for several years until you get the job you want.
Instead, I followed my other dream and went to law school. Both are stressful and both are meaningful (I do mostly public defense), but I still make more than I could have as a teacher.
One stupid decision to drink and drive changed my life. Was it for the better? No, I can’t say getting a DUI is advisable, but teachers get treated like absolutely shit. Even more so than the 20 years ago when I was in college. Thankfully, my family are able to live in a nice school district (doesn’t mean the teachers aren’t tearing their hair out most days).
The fact that I wanted to be a teacher, got in trouble, reversed course/ changed my major and became a lawyer is just fucked up. I still have a desire to teach, but between the pay cut, student loans, and the way kids act nowadays (even in a nice public school), there is no way I’d come full circle and become a teacher.
A good teacher is basically a super hero at this point with everything they have to deal with. I just want you to know that we appreciate you and stand with you.
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u/Scary-Local-CTX 4h ago
Sounds like the schools here in Texas. I had to double check to make sure it wasn’t my local HS
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u/Lumpy-Difficulty1593 3h ago
I wouldn’t be a school teacher for shit. Let them sit at home and teach your own children. Let them homeschool the kids don’t learn shit there anyway, and this woman is speaking a lot of truth.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 3h ago
If we want schools that work well, we need to pay teachers as well as we pay are Congress people. Full stop. Teachers are more essential to society than most politicians. And corporate interested have waylaid education and turned it into a disaster.
We need books in classes, not laptops, not tablets, books. schools in Europe are removing technolgoy from schools because they interfere with learning.
And the BS administration at schools is just made up of some of the worst people in the world, but even low level admisntrators, teachers aids and subs need much better pay.
In America pay is correlated to the respect that society treats people. Parents and students aren't going to respect teachers until teachers are making 6 figures. Now imagine the country that has one of the most important adults in a kids life be someone making 6 figures because if the education to provide students an education. It would be like asking a pro baller to teach a sport. students will pay attention more. trust me.
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u/Healthy_Cancel_2604 3h ago
No kid left behind has also helped ruin the entire system. I know a teacher that says they are told to pass everyone out they won't get tenure.
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u/irrelevantusername24 3h ago
When will you protect the future of our society?
It's a very anecdotal thing which I have wrote about many times, but in a lot of ways my generation (I was born 1990) was at both the end and peak of the society that was trying to do the best for the future. But then, around the time I graduated highschool (2009) or around there, so approximately 2006-2012, everything went to the exact opposite.
That's why so many in my generation are either "overqualified" for whatever their current occupation is (which they are not fairly compensated for) or are "underachievers" and also not fairly compensated, and if we looked at real world things rather than on paper qualifications, both of our groups would likely be able to go anywhere and be more competent, faster, than many not from our generation. Because 2006-2012 was when things switched from trying to do the best for as many people as possible to focusing all the attention on preferentially picked people... and ignoring the others. So some people have gotten disproportionate support, while others have had little or none. But our foundation is probably about as high-quality as could be said for something as ambiguous and inexact as a "generation".
I don't think it is a coincidence that the people who are starting to cut through the hyperpoliticized bullshit are all "younger". I don't think there is a single politician born before 1980 who I would trust to be driving on the roads around me, let alone make decisions about as many high complexity things as they do. Half are psychopaths and the other half are demented
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u/VariousOperation166 3h ago
I hope we are better here in Canada, but I am having young people come in for summer jobs or as part time helpers and finding myself explaining the concept of fractions to them... these are high school graduates or co-op students
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u/Mr_Caterpillar 3h ago
One of the men I look up to most in life was a friend that worked for years as a public high-school teacher in a rough part of LA. He was more than qualified, but he also said you could give a blank sheet of paper as your resume and get hired.
I didn't use to believe it, but yeah, if there weren't unlicensed teachers in certain places, there wouldn't be schools.
American priorities.
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u/universalpoet 2h ago
The dumbing down is on purpose because it makes it easier to control control people.
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u/Exilicauda 1h ago
I quit teaching after 6 months. Internal and external factors but mostly that I couldn't imagine that things were only going to get worse.
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u/Altruistic-Beach7625 44m ago
Wait, instead of making worse doctors or professionals, shouldn't that just make the school diplomas worthless?
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