- skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish6 days
So much discourse in this thread. I can’t believe so few people can agree that something can be both wrong and funny as fuck at the same time.
- Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish5 days
Sounds funny, but what she did and said in the classroom was lame as hell.
- 5 days
She’s funny like how Trump is really funny. It’s not her actions that are funny. It’s her absurd character.
- captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Ah, manic episode, that explains it. And yeah, people who are manic are prone to do things that are kinda funny when you first hear about them, but get less funny the more you know. Obviously a bad thing to do, but yeah kinda amusing, definitely mental illness.
7 daysJones is scheduled for a preliminary court hearing on October 20 and, according to the Independent, could face a maximum 21 years in prison if she is convicted.
If only she was a child molester, she’d be out already.
This sentence should not be possible under these circumstances, unreal
However, after that teacher left she allegedly proceeded to organise students by race and gender, insult them using racial slurs and derogatory statements, and use explicit language — as well as playing loud rap music and bragging about being OK with going to jail.
A 16-year-old boy in the class told authorities that she also called one student ‘fat boy’ and told two white pupils that ‘they were the type to start school shootings’, Independent reports.
I know a lot of people are going to sound off about how they had it worse when they were a kid, but mental and verbal abuse is still abuse. It was never okay, not back then, and not now. This lady doesn’t even have the excuse of being old and worn out like many of the professionals in that field. She’s 23, doesn’t actually work in that field, just decided to show up and being abusive.
- Dreamcatcher@lemmy.zipEnglish6 days
If bipolar disorder is involved, it’s still a combination of various factors.
Bipolar disorder alone doesn’t cause something like this, I’d know because I have it and I can’t imagine ever doing something like this, even in my wildest manic episodes, even though I have a pretty serious case of it.
The other factors could be anything. Some examples: trauma, co-morbid mental conditions or just being a shitty person in general. Those are just some examples, like I said, it could be anything and it’s likely the other stuff is things we probably couldn’t even think of.
- skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish6 days
maximum 21 years in prison if she is convicted.
America really does love jailing people
I’m pretty sure this was what a couple of my substitutes were doing when I was in school.
- 7rokhym@lemmy.caEnglish5 days
Sounds much nicer than what we did to substitutes back in the day. The goal was to make them cry, but if they stormed out to go bitch about us, that was good too.
I wonder how we would have reacted to her.Anyway, it was depraved, evil, bad, omg the children, they’ll never recover from this. They should sue the school for the trama and psychological injury. So badly run the school didn’t even know who was being put in front to the students.
- HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish7 days
Im not saying its right, but after cycling to work past a school I can understand…
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish7 days
I don’t think that’s significantly different from every fucking sub my kid has had in elementary school.
Mr. Blah said that if we didn’t stay absolutely quiet all day that instead of going to recess, he was going ot make us all do pushups.
They’re fucking first graders. go fuck yourself mr blah because empty threats aren’t going to mean shit to these kids.
one of the few subs I actually remember was a science-substitute (his specialty was biology), and he’d bring his snakes to class and let them wander about the class room and chill with the kids.
He actually cared about the kids he was teaching.
then there was the white South African sub that spent the entire class bitching about “discrimination” because she was denied scholarships for (black) South Africans affected by apartheid. she was just bitchy. (and credit to our history teachers, they found out about it and gave us an impromptu weeklong lesson on Apartheid.)
- 7 days
Do all white South Africans suck? I knew a guy who applied for scholarships for African Americans because he’s from Africa and he’s American, he was bitching about getting denied during the interview stage for obvious reasons. He knew that African American meant something specific that definitely excluded him, he’s just an asshole.
- captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
A lot of them have a cultural background encouraging them to suck. It’s like white people from the American southeast. Being raised in the privileged race of an extremely racist society where your family may have grievances about being forced to lose forms of political power and explicit domination can make for some really awful people (as well as some really awesome people who grow up with an internal understanding that all this shit is wrong and fighting against it).
I know a white South African who’s very chill and kind and he works with Aboriginal Australians and if you ask him nicely he’ll do magic tricks with a deck of cards and when I was having a hard time with My mental health he helped Me access a counsellor and followed up to see how I was doing afterwards.
I haven’t met all white South Africans… but, there does seem to a pattern.
Edit to add: it might just be the ones fleeing from the consequences of Apartheid rather than all; and it’s not like I’ve personally met that many of them. (But we can lump musk and trump’s “refugees” into this pattern, too)
- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish6 days
The ones I worked with in The Netherlands and Britain didn’t seem to be a problem.
Maybe America attracts a certain kind of white South African more than those countries?!
- Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Nah, all but one of the white South Africans I’ve met in the US have been pretty awesome. In general the people from any country that seek out other cultures are, somewhat necessarily, not the xenophobic or supremacist ones. There are always gonna be shitheads, especially when they feel they might need to “flee” their home country, but the vast majority are just nice folks that like other people (this doesn’t apply to tourists in super touristy areas - we just had a family get their kid gored because they tried to pet a bull elk in mating season and they’ve turned around and are now trying to sue the rangers for not warning them enough)
- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish5 days
In my own experience living in other countries and knowing quite a lot of other immigrants (as people tend to more easily bond with those living similar experiences, with the result that immigrants tend to mix more with other immigrants - and not just people from the same country of origin but immigrants in general - than with the locals), people who go live in other countries out of their own choice tend to have two main kinds of drives for that and hence personalities:
- People who moved elsewhere because they actually like meeting other people from different cultures and living life in different ways than the one they grew up in, or as you said “seek out other cultures”.
- People who moved elsewhere driven by wanting to make more money and have a better life.
From what I’ve seen in a couple of countries, the former are a lot rarer than the latter, they’re also generally more open-minded people. However the latter are not at all open-minded and in my own experience are often very conservative types, possibly even more so than the locals (this is my experience both with most of my countrymen when I was an immigrant abroad and with immigrants living in my own homeland).
Anyways, what you say about you experience with South Africans in the US does match my experience with South Africans in Europe, my point is just that your broader conclusion about openness of immigrants in general does not at all match my own - most immigrants out there are of the second kind and thus they’re not at all more open minded than people in general and might even be more close minded (as I said, seen it both with my countrymen whilst living abroad and with immigrants in my homeland - and it seems to me that most immigrants are more conservative and less open minded than average, which is probably what leads some immigrants to form single-nationality communities when living abroad whilst in my experience the “seek out other cultures” kind tends to live amongst the locals).
- Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
I don’t think our experiences are contradictory - I think I perhaps under-emphasized that it was people who seek out other cultures, rather than the ones that insulate themselves from the culture they live within, that are necessarily the less-xenophobic ones. There may well be piles of immigrants that mix primarily with other immigrants and are at the same time awful people (by host culture standards), but it follows that unless we are members of that community, we’re unlikely to have ever met them. Were it a strict rule it might approach tautology (and aside from that it’s fairly good example of why anecdotal evidence is unreliable), but it does seem that our experiences are fairly closely aligned.
- justme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish6 days
she needed to pose as teacher? i had the feeling a good amount of actual teachers hate kids
- deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish6 days
I find it frustrating comments here are supportive of her.
This bitch is a loser. Nothing better to do? No decent hobby but harassing people for a laugh? Fuck her
23? She’s a kid herself ffs!
Substitute teacher story: at my high school, a sub teacher called Mrs. West (who every student agreed was the Wicked Bitch of the West, absolute cunt of an old woman) got fired for telling a black student, “my grandparents owned your great grandparents.” I don’t remember if that kid was acting up or not, it was horrible, but we were glad to see her go.
- searabbit@piefed.socialEnglish7 days
Maybe at your current age but that’s pretty old from a 16yo kids perspective.
