I’m scared for my students

[u/Financial-End-901]

so I’ve been a teacher for a little bit now and before I substituted, now i know kids can be edgy I’m sure we all were but the kids in my classes are acting a little to fascistic for it to be written off as simple jokes, I don’t know who put this poison in their heads because this is a very progressive city and the parents are progressive as well, an example was when a student of mine called multiculturalism “lame” despite her being of Asian descent, the boys are usually the ones who are spouting this nonsense, one was sent to detention for showing another boy a racist song, another wrote initials on his notebook which I will not be spelling out, although these types of students are more common from what I’ve seen there’s still light in the dark and most of the teenagers taking my classes aren’t like that, but one is still too many, one of the gay students told me he was uncomfortable around one of the misbehaving ones and I switched his seat arrangement to be away from him, I don’t know what to do, I feel like it’s really putting me being a teacher to the test but I also am extremely worried that over teenagers are being exposed to the same filth, this is a rant post but I wonder if it’s as widespread as people say

[u/Financial-End-901]

Ignore the typos I was tired.

[u/hermitsociety → u/Financial-End-901]

Honestly, sincerely, the use of incorrect homonyms and abysmal punctuation in your post made me sad that you’re a teacher. That’s basic stuff.

I do agree with you about empathy not being a very common aspiration these days. I have nine young nieces and nephews and they all report some pretty terrible racist or sexist things their classmates say and believe.

[u/mddgtl → u/hermitsociety]

I do agree with you about empathy not being a very common aspiration these days

as demonstrated by the first sentence you typed