I agree, but my lessons were more extreme. I'm American but my father got a Guggenheim grant to do research around Europe in 1963/1964. In 2nd grade of elementary school in the Cambridge I was forced to fight every day, usually against gangs. Why? The teachers at all grade levels (for some odd reason) were teaching about the American Re…
I agree, but my lessons were more extreme. I'm American but my father got a Guggenheim grant to do research around Europe in 1963/1964. In 2nd grade of elementary school in the Cambridge I was forced to fight every day, usually against gangs. Why? The teachers at all grade levels (for some odd reason) were teaching about the American Revolutionary War, and meticulously went through every battle: "And then the dirty Yankee dogs shot down the good British lads..." and so on. I couldn't count the number of times my head was bounced off the cement. I was beaten unconscious by a gang coming home from school one day. I was seven years old. Almost always someone would hit me in the head from behind first, while I was distracted by some fiend in front of me. Returning to the US wasn't much better. Schools encourage gang formation and teach them how to be bullies - which is not surprising at least in the US, and UK, for the US and UK are the biggest bullies on this planet. Even today, so many years later in a developing "democratic" country, I have to deal with sadistic American, British, and Australian bully teachers who derive unlimited pleasure from mental torture, telling lies, and all manner of sabotage, trickery and deceit. Fortunately, I was given notice yesterday; I'll be unemployed in three weeks, and I was happy, even though I have almost no money. Se est la vie. Don't even get me started on how my four years of Graduate School were stolen by racist maniac professors in the department, leaving me with a student loan I could not pay. Academia is a criminal enterprise where bullies rule.
I agree, but my lessons were more extreme. I'm American but my father got a Guggenheim grant to do research around Europe in 1963/1964. In 2nd grade of elementary school in the Cambridge I was forced to fight every day, usually against gangs. Why? The teachers at all grade levels (for some odd reason) were teaching about the American Revolutionary War, and meticulously went through every battle: "And then the dirty Yankee dogs shot down the good British lads..." and so on. I couldn't count the number of times my head was bounced off the cement. I was beaten unconscious by a gang coming home from school one day. I was seven years old. Almost always someone would hit me in the head from behind first, while I was distracted by some fiend in front of me. Returning to the US wasn't much better. Schools encourage gang formation and teach them how to be bullies - which is not surprising at least in the US, and UK, for the US and UK are the biggest bullies on this planet. Even today, so many years later in a developing "democratic" country, I have to deal with sadistic American, British, and Australian bully teachers who derive unlimited pleasure from mental torture, telling lies, and all manner of sabotage, trickery and deceit. Fortunately, I was given notice yesterday; I'll be unemployed in three weeks, and I was happy, even though I have almost no money. Se est la vie. Don't even get me started on how my four years of Graduate School were stolen by racist maniac professors in the department, leaving me with a student loan I could not pay. Academia is a criminal enterprise where bullies rule.
That's terrible, Greg. I'm sorry you suffered that.
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