• VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
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    Been there. In my secondary school, every week a class was selected for performing well (so good feedback for behaviour and homework sort of stuff) so the class got a tenner I think. So at the end of the year when we won so many times we had about 100 quid so the teacher wanted to see what everybody wanted to do and of course the class said party. So the teacher had to plan out how to spread 100 pound on food for a class of 30 and she used her own money too. My form teacher was a legend.

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      In my primary school they did it based on the cleanest classroom. Except all we won was a $2 Freddo frog. The teachers wouldn’t let us vacuum though, and rather than just not eat inside and not make a mess, we went around with tape to pick up all the carpet crumbs

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    I was in the later years of elementary school when the American school system really started to become grossly underfunded.

    I repeatedly heard my teacher grumbling about copy paper and lack of supplies. A coupe of times, my teacher complained to ME! Expressing how they were stressed out about not being able to get all the stuff they needed to teach and didn’t mean to snap at me like that. O_O

    I really felt bad for them, they couldn’t do anything to stop it.

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    Our class party’s were always “bring a plate” type parties - parents would give the kids a plate of something to contribute

    It was the best.

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    9 months ago

    This feels like it could be a new indicator for the relationship between economy and education… The Pizza Party Slice Index?

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    9 months ago

    I DIDN’T GET A PEPPERONI GOD DAMNIT. Fr though, I miss my teachers like this…these online professors ain’t worth two fucks

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      Ah yes, you’re too damn lazy to go to college in person so the online professor “ain’t worth two fucks” because they don’t violate FERPA and order you a surprise slice of pizza to your house during their class.

      Fuck your entitlement dude.

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        First, you really hurt my feelings and I’m crying out of my vag rn. But unfortunately I go to a brick and mortar college…and I want in-person classes because the new trend in online classes is no lectures but use other teachers’ lectures, assign readings in the textbooks and then do your lessons through a web based learning type setup…think McGraw-Hill… plus I like to perv on the girls/guys…If a question is incorrect or there are bugs in the coding or I have a question, the professor may take over a week to respond, if at all… I’ll show up unannounced at their office and they apologize blah blah. But did you really think I was complaining about some kindergarten pizza party bullshit??? FERPA?? I’m referring to how dedicated and responsive those teachers are to their students’ success and questions… teaching the kids…not just telling them to read a bunch of garbage and regurgitate it. So anyways girl… could you please buy me a pizza? I’ll lick your butthole?

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          these online professors

          But unfortunately I go to a brick and mortar college

          These two statement directly conflict with each other. No wonder you think they’re bad professors… You’re missing your classes.

          But did you really think I was complaining about some kindergarten pizza party bullshit?

          Yes. because you’re clearly a child. I still suspect that you’re so supremely butt hurt about not having your little square lunchroom pizza that it’s the primary reason why you act like a seven year old (at best).

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      9 months ago

      grammatical animacy (“it” vs “they”) aside, its not as easy to get it/it’s right as some commenters suggest. the authors of the constitution got it wrong too. the error has it’s own few decades of historical precedent. 🙃

      No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

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          turns out codifying one single spelling for an incredibly diverse language and forcing all of its speakers to stick to it was slightly more difficult than founding a new genre of government

          (edit this was meant to be a funny silly little comment not biting satire so you all can stop dogpiling me now you make this website miserable)

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      OP, the correct gender neutral pronoun is “they”, even if we talk about one person.

      But generally a very solid meme!

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    Why can’t good people who want to do good work get paid for their time?

    The super intendant of that school district is probably a millionaire, but doesn’t do any of the work.

    It seems like only the shitty teachers that hate children are the ones that remain as teachers.

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    During grades 0-4, i had a special program where i would stay at school for 8 hours, but get no homework and had a 1 hour recreation break and big eating break(not to be confused with the shorter one), where we(my class) got served food(once we received moldy bread i think). Each friday we each got a pizza.

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      No capital to start the sentence, no period, “bough” instead of bought. Yep.

      TBF there’s a whole separate mindset of online communication that seems to demand shitty writing and spelling, like there’s peer pressure to not do it right even if the writer might know better. One would hope in a more formal setting the writer would do better. Maybe.

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    I never appreciated this as a kid even though there was plenty of pizza to go around for everyone back then. If any teachers are in this thread reading this comment, thank you. Thank you. It does make a difference, even if it’s a small gesture.

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      My wife and I go out of our way to try to reinforce the fact that we, as parents, very very very much appreciate their teachers. We give them Christmas cards, end of year cards, we donate gifts to them, and any time they send home a letter saying they are running low on supplies we donate something with a thank you card. Hopefully this eventually becomes apparent to the kids that they should appreciate the teachers just as much.

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    I remember the teacher would have us bring a few bucks and wed get a slice of pizza during the pizza parties, while we watched some movie on the TV. I guess it must have been some chill out time for the teacher after a long week or something?