{"id":160353,"date":"2015-04-06T08:23:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T08:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/06\/light-is-hella-fast-firedrill-rustboro-city\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T09:39:28","slug":"light-is-hella-fast-firedrill-rustboro-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/06\/light-is-hella-fast-firedrill-rustboro-city\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-160353 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/06\/light-is-hella-fast-firedrill-rustboro-city\/attachment\/160354\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_n605q6KCao1s5cyzso1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_n605q6KCao1s5cyzso1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_n605q6KCao1s5cyzso1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/light-is-hella-fast.tumblr.com\/post\/115555422570\/firedrill-rustboro-city-svviggle\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">light-is-hella-fast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedrill.tumblr.com\/post\/115333258326\/rustboro-city-svviggle-kastortheunlockable\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">firedrill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustboro-city.tumblr.com\/post\/86946280041\/svviggle-kastortheunlockable\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">rustboro-city<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/svviggle.tumblr.com\/post\/86588790588\/kastortheunlockable-stunningpicture-my-7\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">svviggle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kastortheunlockable.tumblr.com\/post\/86565353186\/stunningpicture-my-7-year-old-son-was-shot-down\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kastortheunlockable<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stunningpicture.tumblr.com\/post\/86552661112\/my-7-year-old-son-was-shot-down-by-his-1st-grade\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">stunningpicture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My 7 year old son was shot down by his 1st grade teacher<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The american public education system in a nutshell tho<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My third grade teacher actually had a conversation with my mom that I was reading to well and told her to stop having me read at home<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My first grade teacher said that it was problematic that I was reading ahead of the rest of the kids in my grade and asked my parents to stop letting me read Harry Potter.<\/p>\n<p>My fourth grade teacher thought it was wrong for my dad to be teaching me complex math because it fascinated me.<\/p>\n<p>My elementary school music teacher hated the way my piano teacher taught me, and how I was more advanced than many of her students, and so told me, in front of my peers and my mother, that I was not good enough to participate in the state solo festival. She would not give me the form. We had to procure it from the district instead. She also hated how I excelled at reading and playing music for the recorder, and so she refused to give me my \u201cbelts\u201d (colored beads to signify our level) and humiliated me in front of the class repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>My eighth grade algebra teacher used to fail me on take home tests because I didn\u2019t solve problems exactly the way she showed us in class; I used methods that we had learned for other types of problems that also applied to these. She took points off my tests because I didn\u2019t bring a calculator even though I got 100% without it, because I was able to do it by hand. I had to call my father, who is an engineer, down to the school to shout her down and give me back my A in the class.<\/p>\n<p>My 10th grade Spanish teacher yelled at me in front of the class numerous times because she didn\u2019t like the way I took notes; she thought that since I didn\u2019t write every word off the slide, I wasn\u2019t getting it all down. I had to explain to her that people who have taken advanced courses, like AP or IB classes, know that in a fast-paced learning environment you need to take quick shorthand notes that contain the necessary information rather than wasting time writing every word. She almost gave me detention.<\/p>\n<p>My 11th grade English teacher gave me a poor mark on my first short essay because she believed that I was looking up unnecessarily complex words in a thesaurus to try and get better marks. The phrases in question: \u201claced with expletives\u201d and \u201cbombarded\u201d. She wouldn\u2019t hear any defense from me.<\/p>\n<p>My 11th grade history teacher failed me on an essay about the 1950s because I misread the prompt. Except the prompt wasn\u2019t words; it was a political cartoon. One of the figures was clearly president Eisenhower, but the other I couldn\u2019t place. My teacher would not tell us who it was. I labelled him as the governor of Little Rock Arkansas during the integration period, and wrote an essay about that subject. My teacher said that no, it was Joseph McCarthy, and that there was a small picture of the man in our textbook and therefore I should have recognized him instantly. Half the class, apparently, did not.<\/p>\n<p>The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it\u2019s here to keep us in line and silent. It\u2019s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don\u2019t let it win.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>this is some to kill a mockingjay level bullshit<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>light-is-hella-fast: firedrill: rustboro-city: svviggle: kastortheunlockable: stunningpicture: My 7 year old son was shot down by his 1st grade teacher The american public education system in a nutshell tho My third grade teacher actually had a conversation with my mom that I was reading to well and told her to stop having me read at home &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/06\/light-is-hella-fast-firedrill-rustboro-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17981,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160355,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160353\/revisions\/160355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}