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Anon likes sharpners (i.ibb.co)
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>be me
>4th grade
>bring 3 sharpners to school
>friend tells me thats a lot of sharpners
>bring 3 more sharpners the next day >friend gives me his sharpner to grow my collection
>start collecting more and more sharpners
>go to stationary every week to by more sharpners
>collect about 70 sharpners by the end of the month
>start bringing a tiny bag to carry thoes sharpner
>english teacher asks for a sharpner
>offer her the bag thinking she'd be impressed
>sees all my sharpners and writes a note to my parents
>only allowed to bring 1 sharpner
>idea.jpg
>make a huge sharpner out of cardboard
>dad helps me to color it with red and silver spray paint
>display it on my table during the english period
>get sent to the office

fun days

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[–] z00s@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eng teacher missed the opportunity to bring a giant pencil

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Besides, why do they only allow for one sharpener? Seems like a complete bullshit for the sake of forcing compliance

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

School often represses creativity in favor of compliance.

Doesn't have to have a reason. The teacher finds something strange, you are punished. Think of blonde hair in Japanese schools.

In my parents' times, going to school in jeans was forbidden (in center Europe).

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yup. Because schools primarily serve to create workers. Actual education is merely permitted when it does not interfere with the main aim of creating workers

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think teachers are thinking about creating workers. They just apply the way they were raised.

[–] oce@jlai.lu -1 points 2 years ago

Not on Lemmy, here everything bad is because of capitalism, humans would be perfect if they hadn't bitten into the capitalism apple.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anon was probably a smartass about it and the teacher made a new rule instead of dealing with it in some other way. Him making that giant sharpener is additional evidence of that

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It probably is true. Still, that's a shitty way of dealing with matters in school

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

how many kids are there in her class? how much time does she have for each kid. Is this "need for attention" an exception or does our "be me" has a list of creative endeavors this teacher had to deal with already?

Are teachers well paid in this society?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

The last point is what's important, plus understaffing. When we did an educational project for kids on a non-commercial basis we had about one adult per four kids, so everyone got the attention needed. The official requirement is one adult per ten or fifteen if I remember correctly, which is outrageously not enough

Besides, I get it, the extremes look very simple, if the class has 40 kids and everyone demands lots of attention that's gonna be 40 lots of attention. But in reality if the students are sampled randomly into the class, their need for attention will be different, and only a few are going to demand lots really. And that's under the assumption that anon here was attention seeking, not just a person that didn't like meaningless rules imposed out of nowhere