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Teacher Asks What’s The Point Of School When All Her Students Aspire To Become Streamers

Teacher Asks What’s The Point Of School When All Her Students Aspire To Become Streamers

An elementary school teacher took to Reddit to share her frustrations with her students, but she actually thinks all of the problems come from their unrealistic career aspirations. She argued that she and her husband, a high school teacher, can barely get their students to engage with their schoolwork because they simply think they don’t need to learn. Instead, they all believe they’ll become streamers or influencers and never need academic knowledge again, which has left her wondering why she’s even doing her job anymore. The teacher said that ‘influencer culture [is] destroying children.’ “I teach elementary and my husband teaches high school,” she said in her post on the r/Teachers subreddit. Apparently, the age difference doesn’t affect students’ interest at all. “In both schools, it’s a fight to get children to read or pay attention.” Monstera Production | Pexels A question her husband posed got her thinking. “On Friday, my husband asked a group of students (16-year-olds) who refuse to do any work and are failing, what are they going to do when they …

“I aspire to earn your forgiveness”: Ye apologizes for antisemitism, blames actions on brain injury

“I aspire to earn your forgiveness”: Ye apologizes for antisemitism, blames actions on brain injury

Ye has spent the past several years diving deeper and deeper into far-right conspiracies and bigotry. The rapper formerly known as Kanye West apologized for recent antisemitic stunts and singles in a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, blaming his actions on an undiagnosed brain injury. “Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain. At the time, the focus was on the visible damage—the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed,” he began. “It wasn’t properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-1 diagnosis.” Ye ran through the ruinous effects of his injury and subsequent diagnosis, saying it caused him to avoid seeking the help he needed. “You don’t think you’re sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you’re seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you’re …