why are some teachers so insistantly aggressive about punishing children for having interests they dont understand?
I remember this shit happening while I was still in school too where anything that was really popular among young boys was instantly labelled a distraction that you could be punished for. pokemon, yu-gi-oh, beyblades, all of them were banned very quickly from my school and I remember on numerous occassions teachers calling them stupid and pointless and going on tangents about how they dont let their children engage in interests like that because it rots your brain. what was the deal? And the main excuse would always be that it was a distraction. Like yeah thats the point pricipal dr.deepshit, children cant be expected to be 100% focussed on their schoolwork for 8 hours a day. they need to have outlets to blow off steam because school is fucking hard. let kids like things you stank asses.
Some of the younger teachers at my sons school are using these games to help teach. My son is an especially distracted student. He has ADHD. He’s in middle school and they no longer have recess, so he gets extra antsy.
My son had to write an informative paper for English, he wrote how to win a boss battle in a popular video game and he got an A. Every time she lets him choose the topic he picks video games and she says she can see one day he’ll probably be a good fantasy writer, or game developer.
His math teacher got so frustrated trying to help the kids she brought in her old Pokémon cards to teach the kids algebra with Pokémon strategy during a match. I have no idea how she made that lesson work, maybe someone who knows more about algebra and Pokémon could sort it out. All the kids got an A on the test the next day, even those that struggled for other reasons.
Learning should be fun, more teachers should be doing this instead of banning it.
I like how the only reason Harry is able to fight the imperious curse so easily is because it hits him and he’s like “Ah I feel calm and relaxed and happy…this is wrong.”
