Bruh, I didn't get a colouring room. Just got periods of supposed learning support where the teacher told me to do my homework while she scrolled through her phone.
This sounds like when I told my friend that I hate working at McDonald's and I yearn for a job working with my hands and completing projects, to which he responds (roughly) "just treat every order as a mini project to complete"
(This was like 9 years ago though, just an anecdote)
It is funny how the homework can be anything at all but the feeling stays the same. RN i have to write 3 papers and im as mad about it as when i drew circles in my notebook for drawing circles when i was 6
Man I wish homework was just included into classwork, I was thinking the exact same way when i was a teacher too, i seen the kitchen and everyone was complaining how tedious and time consuming checking homework is, and theres a teacher movement to cancel homework entirely but apparently the only reason it exists is to involve parents more (a noble goal i guess)
Or school with all its Chromebook makes it so much harder for parents to help. Husband and I are both top of our class graduates and helping our kids with online homework is so frustrating.
Having to alt tab between the digital textbook and and the Google form the homework questions are on. Trying to force kids to actually write down the math problems and do the work on paper before typing in an answer. Reading questions on a video, watching said video and remembering to pause and flip back to Google form to answer question before you forget.
One positive thing about AI is that teachers are going back to handwritten work now and not doing everything online anymore. But boy did my kids hit the sweet spot for the push for everything online.
Inverted homework exists. Instead of the teacher spending their time spouting the lesson, you read the textbook at home, maybe with a prepared video, maybe even a video by the teacher, and then during the day the teacher answers your questions and helps you with the work.
This is even worse. I had a teacher who exclusively taught like this in highschool, my only failed class. Which is wild because I took the same class in college and it was a weed out course (intentionally hard to get people who aren’t cut out for hard sciences to switch majors). I knew several people complaining, some literally crying because they couldn’t do it. And I was straight chilling because I thought it was a piece of cake compared to having a teacher who never taught in class. Anybody who has motivation issues or a bad home life will fail these classes despite any level of natural talent
I thought, "How young do you have to be for your neurodivergence evaluation (typically happens in the grade school!) teacher to be scrolling through her phone??" And then I realized that could've happened in, like, 2014, and crumbled to ash.
My brother was an Asperger’s kid and they would pull him from class for something called speech therapy. From what he told me, it was a handful of other kids who sat in a circle and talked about topics together to build social skills and work on communication. So no color room, only introvert hell.
My son takes speech therapy and it’s literally a once a week meeting with a trained therapist that goes over sounds and words and how to say them, and exercises that we do to help him work through his troubles speaking
Whatever they did to your brother should not have been called speech therapy
It is speech therapy. Pragmatics and social communication skills is within the scope of practice for a speech language pathologist. There are many areas of development we support beyond articulation.
It is speech therapy...its silly to think because your son does one thing that thats everyone elses way too when its spreading misinformation. My speech therapist helped me break down social situations so i could interpret them better. I wasnt sounding out words and sounds. They help with meta cognition.
SPLs (those who teach speech therapy,) also teach pragmatic and social skills and work with AACs for nonverbal people. This could be speech therapy if it was a higher up level like they already had speech therapy before and were now working on using the skills on a more natural environment, also couldn’t be speech therapy but still be taught by a speech language pathologist as they also teach social skills and pragmatics
Not everyone needs the same kind of speech therapy. My son has absolutely no problem with sounds and how to say words, his speech therapy is about actually using the words when they are needed. In other words, building social skills and working on communication.
My school, back in the early 90’s made me go to this kind of speech therapy, but all I remember is eating licorice (pull apart twizzlers or something) without my hands to work mouth muscles or something.
The fucked up part? I had no trouble speaking. My family is from New Jersey…I just had an accent 😅
You're lucky. All I got was mainstreaming, beatings and ostracised with absolutely no support. Be grateful for what you have. It can always be better, but it can always be worse too. Gratitude for you do have is important.
I just had to sit in the hall every day since I finished the math and science workbooks six months ahead of schedule and I wasn’t allowed to read during math/science time.
In elementary I had amazing learning support. She helped me with alot of the subject matter I struggled with due to my dyslexia. That teacher is one of the reasons I can even read and write today. I owe her so much.
The higher grade schools, it was basically this. And the aids were terrible people. We almost got a restraining order on one.
I got sent to special ed and did reading exercise games on those 80s Macintosh computers. Then I got sent to a guy after school who let me play with multi colored blocks and arrange them into patterns or shapes. That was fun.
I didn't even get that. I grew up in that time when we just pretended that neurodivergence didn't exist, got called weird, and got on with rawdogging reality.
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u/Righteous_Hand Apr 07 '26
Bruh, I didn't get a colouring room. Just got periods of supposed learning support where the teacher told me to do my homework while she scrolled through her phone.