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Uh, no. These kids are being taught that their needs are basically unimportant compared to the teacher's needs, that their feelings are unimportant compared to

Uh, no. These kids are being taught that their needs are basically unimportant compared to the teacher's needs, that their feelings are unimportant compared to the teacher's feelings, that they are a burden on their teacher's time and energy, and that they shouldn't even ask questions when they don't understand something. There are several educators in my immediate family, and several friends as well. I guarantee you every single one of them would be HORRIFIED by this amount of selfishness and lack of self-control this teacher is demonstrating. This teacher needs to be, if not fired, put on leave and recommended a mental health evaluation. In their current state they are unable to satisfactorily educate and/or care for small children. I suspect you don't have kids.

engineer_22 6y ago
I appreciate your guarantees, but I think we're getting really riled up over one parent's anecdotal report about a teacher in an unusual and stressful situation. After generating this much attention I'm certain the thoroughly embarrassed teacher will be more careful. The children will be fine.
skim_milk 6y ago
Transcendentalism to American religious conservative organizations like this teacher is a part of is pretty much all about disassociating from all feeling in order to improve and become a more productive human. Of course, on our side, transcendentalism is about understanding feelings&emotions, where they come from, and the process of healing from emotional pain inflicted during childhood in order to prevent passing our pain on to other people in order to become a more productive human. When we respond point and laugh at emotional disassociation, the other side is only going to get enraged because emotional disassociation is "the truth" towards some form of improvement. We need to better articulate why disassociating from emotions isn't better because simply pointing out that the child's emotional needs aren't being met doesn't mean anything when emotional disassociation is truth to these people raised in these institutions. (just to be entirely clear, I agree with you wholeheartedly, big picture we just need to understand where the person you're replying to might be coming from in order to articulate an argument that has some meaning to the other individual)
- engineer_22 6y ago
  I feel like we're speaking different languages here.

engineer_22 6y ago

I appreciate your guarantees, but I think we're getting really riled up over one parent's anecdotal report about a teacher in an unusual and stressful situation. After generating this much attention I'm certain the thoroughly embarrassed teacher will be more careful. The children will be fine.

skim_milk 6y ago

Transcendentalism to American religious conservative organizations like this teacher is a part of is pretty much all about disassociating from all feeling in order to improve and become a more productive human. Of course, on our side, transcendentalism is about understanding feelings&emotions, where they come from, and the process of healing from emotional pain inflicted during childhood in order to prevent passing our pain on to other people in order to become a more productive human. When we respond point and laugh at emotional disassociation, the other side is only going to get enraged because emotional disassociation is "the truth" towards some form of improvement. We need to better articulate why disassociating from emotions isn't better because simply pointing out that the child's emotional needs aren't being met doesn't mean anything when emotional disassociation is truth to these people raised in these institutions. (just to be entirely clear, I agree with you wholeheartedly, big picture we just need to understand where the person you're replying to might be coming from in order to articulate an argument that has some meaning to the other individual)

engineer_22 6y ago
I feel like we're speaking different languages here.