[typos preserved]

>be me
>4th grade
>bring 3 sharpners to school
>friend tells me thats a lot of sharpners
>bring 3 more sharpners the next day >friend gives me his sharpner to grow my collection
>start collecting more and more sharpners
>go to stationary every week to by more sharpners
>collect about 70 sharpners by the end of the month
>start bringing a tiny bag to carry thoes sharpner
>english teacher asks for a sharpner
>offer her the bag thinking she’d be impressed
>sees all my sharpners and writes a note to my parents
>only allowed to bring 1 sharpner
>idea.jpg
>make a huge sharpner out of cardboard
>dad helps me to color it with red and silver spray paint
>display it on my table during the english period
>get sent to the office

fun days

    • lad@programming.dev
      751·
      9 months ago

      Besides, why do they only allow for one sharpener? Seems like a complete bullshit for the sake of forcing compliance

      • Kilgore TroutEnglish
        1031·
        9 months ago

        School often represses creativity in favor of compliance.

        Doesn’t have to have a reason. The teacher finds something strange, you are punished. Think of blonde hair in Japanese schools.

        In my parents’ times, going to school in jeans was forbidden (in center Europe).

        • witty_username@feddit.nl
          58·
          9 months ago

          Yup. Because schools primarily serve to create workers. Actual education is merely permitted when it does not interfere with the main aim of creating workers

          • Etterra@lemmy.world
            23·
            9 months ago

            It’s an industrial era system in the 21st century. What could possibly go wrong right?

          • Kilgore TroutEnglish
            232·
            9 months ago

            I don’t think teachers are thinking about creating workers. They just apply the way they were raised.

            • lad@programming.dev
              271·
              9 months ago

              But applying without thinking doesn’t mean that it doesn’t serve a purpose, it just means they don’t know what the purpose is

            • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
              62·
              9 months ago

              Not on Lemmy, here everything bad is because of capitalism, humans would be perfect if they hadn’t bitten into the capitalism apple.

      • Maalus@lemmy.world
        413·
        9 months ago

        Anon was probably a smartass about it and the teacher made a new rule instead of dealing with it in some other way. Him making that giant sharpener is additional evidence of that

          • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
            144·
            9 months ago

            how many kids are there in her class? how much time does she have for each kid. Is this “need for attention” an exception or does our “be me” has a list of creative endeavors this teacher had to deal with already?

            Are teachers well paid in this society?

            • lad@programming.dev
              2·
              9 months ago

              The last point is what’s important, plus understaffing. When we did an educational project for kids on a non-commercial basis we had about one adult per four kids, so everyone got the attention needed. The official requirement is one adult per ten or fifteen if I remember correctly, which is outrageously not enough

              Besides, I get it, the extremes look very simple, if the class has 40 kids and everyone demands lots of attention that’s gonna be 40 lots of attention. But in reality if the students are sampled randomly into the class, their need for attention will be different, and only a few are going to demand lots really. And that’s under the assumption that anon here was attention seeking, not just a person that didn’t like meaningless rules imposed out of nowhere