The Tiktok meme where various professionals share what they would never do based on their special professional knowledge shows a Venn Diagram overlap between trauma nurses, paramedics, personal injury lawyers, dorm RAs, college guidance counselors, bartenders, born-again Christians, professional feminists, and your mom on one subject: never take a drink from a stranger in a bar. Trampolines also figure.
The teachers of Public School Zero agree, though; the drunker you get at the Applebees staff night, the harder it is to remember who is a friend, who is a stranger, and who is the EdTech salesman hawking his Prison Pipeline Deadbeat Student Tracking Software and paying for drinks on the company tab.
After a recent staff night, Public School Zero’s newly appointed TikTok Censor asked for the following posts to be removed and reprimanded the staff creators.
The school had no comment on the criminal investigation of Big Brother Edtech.
I am a teacher and here are the five things I would never do:
Assume grades correlate with intelligence.
Mistake school rules and regulations for moral precepts.
Base my judgment of a child on how they act in school.
Believe what I believe is worth teaching will always be worth teaching.
Assume the school is acting in the best interest of the children.
I am an administrator and here are five things I would never do:
Assume I am acting in the best interest of teachers.
Assume I am acting in the best interest of students.
Assume that the school is acting in my best interest.
Assume that the EdTech salesman is acting in good faith.
Get on a trampoline with a stranger while drunk.
I am a school custodian and here are the five things I would never do:
Tell a student they would be cleaning toilets for the rest of their life as a putdown (I make OK money and have good benefits).
Leave my underwear in the trampoline pit.
Leave my credit card receipts in an open trash can.
Use a credit card with my name on it to buy drinks when I roofie someone at a work outing.
Think no one cares about the women who work at our school.
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