I need a calming banana after reading this.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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If you need a calming banana to not punch people not mistreating you in the face you are a garbage person
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Teaching is not Teaching anymore, its doing the job of the breeders these days and raising their kids teaching them decent manners and how not to be a cunt.
Being a teacher is literally like adopting a class full of feral fuckin cats and trying to turn them into decent humans from the POS ipad baby version their parents have created.
This is a miserable take. Either
- parents were historically solely responsible for everything a child received, including instruction, and thus you are in fact already contracting to do part of a parent's job anyway Or
- raising children was historically a communal responsibility and you are doing what was historically done by the extended community anyway
You have beef with the disparity between the lines for who has responsibility for the child vs who has ultimate authority over the child. And that is fair! But it's a problem with the current structure of the system, and we don't need to harken back to some stupid lie about the good old days to justify the current impasse.
Going back to when one income could support a family and almost everyone had a parent that was at home that they could rely on is not a stupid lie.
The stupid lie is it is the parent's fault when they both have to work 40+ hours a week (if you even have two parents), take care of the household, help with homework, and deal with the constant curve balls thrown at you by life (car broken down, major sickness, mental disease, dental issues, housing emergency, etc.)
I am lucky to maybe have a hour a day maximum to myself and that is half an hour in the morning and half an hour at night getting ready or going to bed. We are far past the breaking point for the US.
That never fucking existed. There was never a large portion of the population that made enough money for the woman to stay at home, and even when there was enough to apparently make memes about it, it was at most 2 decades.
For real people, women have always worked. In the 1950s, my maternal grandmother ran the general store they owned and lived above while he worked in the factory, and she helped him bale hay on the weekends when it was in season. My paternal grandmother didn't work, and they were dirt poor. She thought it was a woman's place to stay at home and they barely kept food on the table and a roof over their heads. They got frequent financial help from her parents.
My husband: His maternal grandmother didn't work, and the husband had a decent job. And my MiL died bitter because her parents would take all the kids' incomes as teenagers to support the household/themselves. His paternal grandmother worked and retired from a federal job.
It's a lie. It was a lie then to keep women suppressed, and it's a lie now that doesn't serve you like you think it does. The average American has always worked, and women's work has always been discounted. The only ones who didn't work were the wealthy parasite class.
I agree with you that the person I responded to was wrong for dumping on the parents, but everything else is just more grievance politics, but this time from the left.
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- raising children was historically a communal responsibility and you are doing what was historically done by the extended community anyway
US perspective here. The problems I see:
- In many cases, the parents don't have time to give their child the attention that they need and the "extended community" has shrunk to maybe some extended family like grandparents or aunts/uncles. This is particularly bad for those in poverty and working multiple jobs.
- Existential dread and financial uncertainty for the parents, the child, and the teachers.
- Reduced educational funding - downward pressure on teacher compensation, teachers paying for classroom supplies the school and parents can't provide.
- Increasingly corporate structure in school districts - a focus on efficiency, metrics, test performance, etc. instead of the much harder to measure intellectual and social growth of the students. See NCLB.
- Massive, rapid-paced social and technological change.
Man it's hard to teach non-violence in an age of violence and emotional deregulation.
"it is very unfortunate that our Jaeydighn used the calming banana as a weapon but we believe it's important for him to express himself freely and from now on we will peel it in an effort to make the impact softer for everyone involved."
Took those Snickers ads way too seriously
I wonder if they saw the ad and thought "a Snickers a day will get expensive, we'll give him a banana instead".
After all, it's just a banana. How much can it possibly cost? Ten dollars?
Add nurses getting punched by demented lead ridden boomers and society's cooked.
People will do anything but seek out a therapist. The kid may have a behavioral disorder, and seeking referrals for conduct disorder or something is usually a joint effort since parents get defensive even when such a disorder is often biological, like depression.
Or, y'know, zero tolerance bullshit and the kid gets expelled. That's more common in the US.
My sister in law and her husband are these people.
She had a kid in high school was non-verbal autistic that she gave up for adoption and ignored. Her first son with her husband was definitely on the spectrum and struggled hard in social situations and in school. School actually pushed for the diagnosis, but there were the "no way. Not my kid." Kind of people. And did nothing.
Their second kid came along and hes further along the spectrum than their other kid. He's 6 and still not potty trained and barely talking. My 4 year old passed him developmentally a year or more ago, which seems to have been the catalyst for them to seek help.
Both kids are doing better no that theyre seeing specialist and on development plans with the school. I just cant believe they waited so long... especially because her brother has a son who is also non verbal autistic, and his parents got him diagnosed before i even knew you could see those traits in children
Expelled? If they’re Black we just send them right to prison!
Sadly this isn’t a joke
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I work at a school and I received training that explicitly told us zero tolerance does not work, made me do a double take. So in at least the northern states things are changing for the better.
Yup, I teach at University in California and get to cite that. It's a little counter intuitive for people, but it's true and much better for teachers to understand. I imagine some places ignore data, though.
People will do anything but seek out a therapist.
Bananas are a lot more affordable (for now).
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In a situation like this is it better to punch the kid or the parents?
Yes.
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Ok great, next time your kid hits me I'm going to hit him back.
You're an adult. Just bring your own calming banana. Duh!
hits the kid with the banana
"Calm the fuck down!"
Unfortunately I don't possess any banana related super powers.
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