I think my curse has always been there's a lot of books people generally dislike because they were "shoved down their throats by English teachers" and I happen to usually genuinely really enjoy them
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah, like, I actually liked my English teacher a lot and am still friends with him as an adult, BUT the way he was constrained (by his own admission) by school board policies on what the books officially meant meant I hated stuff that was worthwhile
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Like, The Great Gatsby was Officially About Why Being Rich and Decadent is Bad and had nothing to do with racism/fascism. He didn't want to teach it that way, but it wasn't up to him.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
We had to have a "debate" day about A Separate Peace, specifically about whether the central relationship was romantic, because the teacher wasn't allowed to tell us about the interview where the author said it was, even though he knew
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Eventually I think he started trying to get fired, by doing things that weren't strictly under the purview of books the school board had laid out their stance on, such as having "jokes about eating babies day". Anyway, he's retired now :P
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
this is why my senior year literature teacher literally cried and begged me not to become a teacher (and, tbh, I changed my mind about wanting to be a teacher mostly because of my conversations with her, especially that one)
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Replying to @segfaultvicta @arthur_affect
Yeah, I, too, wanted to become an English teacher at one time. Sadly, I decided to become an academic, which is even worse.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @segfaultvicta
Being a parent is kind of like being a teacher with much greater authority but you have to do all this other shit on top of it
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Like have an entire other source of income because nobody pays you to do it
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