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[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

what educators have known about

What good educators have known about (which in my experience is certainly the majority). I definitely had some select teachers in high school and college that were convinced that if you couldn't learn the same way as everybody else it was somehow a ding on them (even though it was far more a ding on the rigidity of an aging rote recall / (as you said) factory line education structure), and therefore you were stupid/didn't care/not worth the effort.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

In my lexicon, educators and teachers are not synonymous :3

But yeah, you are totally correct

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ah yeah absolutely true. Not all teachers are educators, but those that are (in addition to the plethora of educators that are not teachers) understand and triumph the value of adapting education to the individual rather than trying to force the individual to adapt to the education.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

My ex had an early grade school teacher hit the left handedness out of her with a ruler. Sometime around the year 2000.

Last year, my daughter missed lunch a few times because her teacher insisted on finishing the work before eating so she could say she never assigns homework. Luckily a meeting with the principal ended that quick, once we found out about it (poor kid thought she'd get in more trouble if we found out). Daughter did best when the old bag was replaced with a sub for a couple months while she dealt with some medical issue, since the sub actually cared. She's got a great teacher this year and is thriving when she was previously struggling.

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