Post #1799029

2026-03-25 11:25 UTC

@futurebird I don&#39;t want to be unkind, because many of my admins are lovely people, but in my district (and many &quot;urban&quot; districts) the admins were teachers who didn&#39;t really like/weren&#39;t very good at teaching. The ones with the humility and self awareness to acknowledge that are great. The ones who regard themselves as higher up in a hierarchy are.... Not.

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@violetmadder@kolektiva.social 2026-03-25 23:16

@beanbagashtray@kolektiva.social @futurebird@sauropods.win Humility and self-awareness are necessary traits for a teacher who recognizes the need to adjust their approach to get concepts across to kids who didn't catch on the first time. (My physics professor was a wizard at finding different ways to frame an idea until he hit on something the puzzled student could really tune into) Regurgitating stuff at kids and expecting them to just memorize it by rote because you said so, is a COMPLETELY different approach... notably, an approach that requires domineering behavior and does NOT require the "teacher" themselves to actually understand the material OR the students (or, arguably, themselves).

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