Back when I was in middle school, I had this teacher who had some pretty bizarre and outdated ideas.

Hi I’m 27M When I was in middle school, I had an English teacher. And she had some pretty bizarre ideas about life. This happened back when I was in seventh grade it was around 2010 or maybe late 2009. And she told the class one day kids just remember when you grow up and you have kids of your own you you only have three primary responsibilities when it comes to taking care of your children. You’re obligated to feed them close them and house them that’s it. And I replied, and you should love them and then she’s like love them your parents don’t have to love you there’s nowhere in the lower it says they have to. And I said well you should, and she replied why what are you do for them? And then she brought up a story about how one of her kids when he was like 15 or 16 he wasn’t like getting in huge trouble with the law or anything. He was just a rebellious teenager like most of them are. But she said one day he ran away and said I’m leaving, and then I guess she sent her son to go live with her brother. Because he was arguing with her and her husband all the time. And she said sending him to go live with her brother, actually helped him a lot and it turned him around. And then she started going like hey, you know Back 100 years ago kids were much more obedient. She said kids worked on the farm, trimmed the crops milked the cows. And sometimes after school, the kids stayed behind to clean up and mop the floors in the classroom. And then I got up and told her “OK you missed out on your time I’m sorry to say it”. I said you’re not gonna find any like-minded people who think we’re gonna agree with you today. I told her you would’ve had to of been born in like a minimum in the late 1800s or maybe the year 1900 to have experienced what you’re talking about. She practically was saying she wants to go back to the days when there was child labor and people got married when they were 16 and by the time they were 30 they were grandparents and buy 50 they were dead. Oh yeah, and when people died from diseases like smallpox and Typhus. And people didn’t have clean drinking water. They had to get their water out of the well and there is no indoor plumbing. And when I told her that I kind of pulled back for a second thinking, oh my God, I’m in trouble now like I thought I was gonna get sent to the principals office, but she just smiled and looked at me and started laughing. She didn’t take it as an insult she actually took it as a compliment what I was telling her which I found strange. But I felt kind of relieved at least that I didn’t get sent to the principals office. However, when I look back on it, I don’t know I kind of wonder how does this lady even think like this I mean she was like in her late 50s maybe early 60s. At the time which is older but it’s not like the age that she’s talking about. Like when America was like in the matrix like I assume she was born in like the late 40s or early to mid-50s and she grew up in the post World War II modern America. That’s what’s ridiculous about this whole thing. Now look, I can understand people if they were to say that they’d like to go back like maybe 30 or 40 years. Like for example, like if someone said they’d like to go back to the way things were like in the 60s 70s I could kind of relate to them you know if they were talking about like all like they wanna go back to win you could raise a family and just one income and have a nice house in a good neighborhood and you didn’t need a college degree to be in the middle class or live a comfortable life you could work in a factory and make good money and be able to afford things like owning a house, taking a vacation once or twice a year For being able to retire without having To worry about I if you’d have enough money because back then companies gave their workers, pretty generous pensions, and retirement packages unlike now. It seemed like life was a bit more fair when it came to finance. And kids had more stuff to do. Kids had more fun because they would go out and play sports. Do things like the boy and girl Scouts they would go play with their friends at the park or hang out at their house. People made a lot of friends back then because people actually were involved in activities. They weren’t just sitting on the computer or playing video games all day. Like yeah if somebody told me that I could relate to that wanting to go back like maybe 30 or 40 years… But you can’t go back 150 years. To a time when there was practically no cities, and it was the beginning of the industrial revolution, and a time that is so far past that there’s no one alive to even tell you what it was like. Oh yeah and just to know, why would she wanna go back to a time when blacks were second class citizens. And most Americans were racists. oh and women couldn’t vote. She wouldn’t have been the type of person who would have benefited from that time being a woman. When women couldn’t even vote and couldn’t even work, hardly. I kind of wonder if she was in a cult because that’s not normal to say especially in front of a bunch of 12 year olds. Kind of wonder how someone like her is able to teach with that kind of philosophy.

Submitted May 04, 2025 at 03:26PM by Funny_Preference_916 https://ift.tt/HOoyIlM