Eventually the laptop in question was stolen. I didn't get a replacement. I don't remember exactly how things went down but I can't imagine I was that keen to get the support I really did need back given the torment that came with it.
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So, yeah, universal literacy is good, but please don't pretend that school is somehow any better at literacy than it is at anything else. It's the same bullshit as all the other subjects, where they pretend you can do a one size fits all and then punish students for not fitting
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30 years later I'm still sensitive about my hand writing TBH.
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I guess I don't talk that much about the problems that growing up with what was functionally a fairly severe learning difficulty caused me, because honestly they were still way less bad than many other things about school, but they definitely inform a lot of my views.
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Fortunately as well as having significant learning difficulties I'm also very smart, so once I was able to lash together an adequate set of coping skills on my own I did OK in most classes.
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But it was very clear from the ones I did not do OK in that where I couldn't figure out how to make that leap myself (e.g. music, art, oddly history but that may have just been bad teaching), teachers absolutely didn't consider it their job to do more than tell me to try harder.
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So yeah. If you sometimes wonder why I am quite so obsessed with teaching people the basics of things, maybe that provides some context.
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When I write things like https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2021-07-20-00:32.html … it's not just because I'm sad about other people having difficulties (though I am), I've very much been on the receiving end of it and hold a massive grudge over the whole thing.
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I guess I should say that it mostly wasn't their job. This isn't really their fault as individuals, they couldn't actually provide me with the support I needed. It's a problem with how we do school, not something I blame individual teachers for.https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1421501291801583619 …
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David R. MacIver @DRMacIverBut it was very clear from the ones I did not do OK in that where I couldn't figure out how to make that leap myself (e.g. music, art, oddly history but that may have just been bad teaching), teachers absolutely didn't consider it their job to do more than tell me to try harder.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
...mostly. There were definitely teachers who made the problem much worse (I'm not saying I wouldn't piss on my art teacher if he were on fire, but I might if he weren't), and teachers who I sure wish would have acknowledged the flaws in the system even if they couldn't fix them.
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