coming from caddo Parish, I had teachers that blatantly admitted that they didn't care about how they treated us because they had 10 years and couldn't be fired easily. I had teachers that openly held grudges against students. we were taught that respect wasn't earned, it was gained over time, regardless of what the person actually was or was actually doing.
I was tired authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and the true nature of our country's punishment culture by the people that did not understand that respect and trust by the people that they oversee is what should earn a person authority. in our society, people gain authority with a sheet of paper and their own peers and teachers, and not the people that they will be interacting with and their work field.
we need a stricter peer review criteria for teachers. We need stricter standards for the people that at most of the people that live here trust their children with for most of the day. Teachers and School staff need to be tested and judged by the people that they will be overseeing. They should not be able to just become teachers and school and education staff. they should have to get to know the students, be tested on their teaching style and temperament, and be time tested before allowing to start teaching classes with that age group. of course the parents should have more of a say when it comes to smaller children, but when it comes to teenagers, they should get to choose their teachers. that would promote more diversity and inclusivity, and tear down the hierarchy of intelligence that our society has wittingly built up from capitalism and Academia.
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