“It’s” is not even the right its.
She skipped groceries for a week to pay for that Little Caesars.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ivanafterall@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
She’s trying so hard for you and this is the best you’ve got!?
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
If this is a serious post, why shitpost?
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Can’t expect kids to understand something like. Also I doubt those teachers expect that kind of empathy and compassion from people with incomplete brains.
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
gruelling job with little praise
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
And that’s even before they have to deal with parents who think their little precious child acting like an out of control chimp with rabbies in a classroom is absolutelly normal.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So, you do expect it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like shit. My high schoolers said all kinds of horrific nasty shit about me because I was clearly gay, including graphic and specific discussions about my supposed inability to pleasure a woman, which was stupid - but in any other context that would be considered a hostile workplace environment and wouldn’t be tolerated.
Now I mostly work with younger kids, and they do not have a filter. They say things that hurt. When they say those things, I can certainly acknowledge that they don’t have the level of empathy and compassion that an adult has, but that doesn’t mean it feels good.
Teaching and working with kids leads to emotional burnout. You can only handle those sorts of comments so much before it starts to fuck with you, especially if you lack a support system elsewhere.
We shouldn’t expect teachers to be Jesus. At least not when the pay is so shit that most have to have a second job (which also does not help on the burnout end).
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Children are quite ignorant.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I’m not ignorant, my parents are married
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This meme is soooooooooo old. I remember commenting about how “it’s” is really stupid and should be “their” instead. Maybe it was even back on reddit, which would mean this is a repost of a 3+ yo meme. I know this is true for a lot of memes but its insane that i remember this specific one.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
tbh… 3y is not something i would call old in this context ;)
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Three years?? Bro I wasn’t even born back then
kamen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Imagine all the valuable things you could’ve remembered instead.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
There’s only so many space the “names of all steam engine trains in Britain in the 19th century” can occupy in one’s brain, so there’s plenty of room for old memes.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
Sorry, I didn’t know about capitalism when I was 9
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That’s your parents’ fault.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
I mean yeah, my parents are not even remotely anti-capitalist lol
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“it’s”
Well…
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I know right, it’s “its”.
Not only do they refer to the teacher as an it, they didn’t even pay attention to the rules about apostrophes.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
87Six@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I don’t think that’s what they meant when they were asking for more inclusive speech XD
*I make that mistake too, English is my 2nd language
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Teachers are “its” now, eh?
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No " it is"
tomiant@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
“it’s” is funny AF
Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dude, “their”, at least.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What if it one of those AI teachers the techbros want to force upon us?
Leviathan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“What if” indeed
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
This meme makes me sick to death every fucking time I see it…
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because you never thanked her for her sacrifices to help raise you?
wake@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
*Thanked it for it’s own sacrifices*, ffs
Wataba@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I never thanked them because of the gaslighting and unfair criticism directly from them, and the blind eye they turned to the bullying, harassment and sexual assaults from other students. Yes, plural assaults.
Crocodile tears over skimpy pizza can get fucked.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Should have mentioned it to the parents, it only takes a couple parents’ donations to pay for the whole thing and increase the amount of food by a bunch.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Elon could pay for pizza parties for every classroom on Earth with less impact on his finances than a penny is worth to that teacher. How fucked up we have become.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well yes but Billionaires and Trillionaires should not exist. The polite option is take everything over $999 million and give them a little certificate for having won at capitalism.
The unkind option is just to kill them immediately once they exceed $100 million.
Both options are valid, we should give them the option of choosing which one they receive; out of kindness of course. Should they reject both, we can choose for them…
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bro, the parents at the school I taught at had the schools number blocked (if they had cell service at all) because they didn’t want to hear about their children beating the shit out of other children, or destroying school property, or smoking pot….
I had a pizza party once. I got paid $2200 a month and already spent at least $50 a month on supplies (kinda hard to teach chemistry if you don’t have chemicals…) I gave one of my class a pizza party, spent more than a hundred dollars.
Did any of them thank me? LOL. No, they complained because they could only have one slice.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dang that is crazy. My husband started the school year for our son by donating $400 cash to each of his teachers and any school supplies that the teacher asked for.
We might not be able to afford private school but we damn sure are going to support the hell out of our public school teachers.
Tiral@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Seriously. I taught SpEd BD/LD/Autistic for 20 years. I can’t even get into it because I get so pissed. Parents are fucking garbage then they blame everyone else but themselves for their problems they created. Get fucking over it.
starik@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Yay pronoun misuse engagement bait
robocall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shoulda spent that pizza money on some grammar lessons
Emerald@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Should spent pizza money grammar some lessons
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No way major pizza chains could afford free pizza party once a year.
Dominos and little Caesars squeaked by with $5B in revenue last year.
whereitsat@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
so now we’re shaming children/adolescents for not being hip to all the dynamics of american capitalism?
this isn’t even funny as a meme. teachers are trying to educate kids even if they’re bad at it. what are you doing? reposting lame internet wisecracks?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Not to be ungrateful, Mrs Applegate, but Hot n Readys are like $8, do we need to help you organize a strike?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
look up the salaries of teachers in your district. they are publicly available as public employee salaries are publicly posted somewhere on the government website. see how they could probably earn more doing anything else? yeah.
7101334@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My 6th grade teacher paid to take the entire class to Knotts Berry Farm before we ‘graduated’ from elementary school
My point there not being that most teachers should do more, just that my 6th grade teacher was cool as fuck and extremely selfless
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now this is shitposting.
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
it’s*
ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Now it’s is shitposting?
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I don’t know a kid alive in my grade who wasn’t hyped for the pizza party
kofe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now workers on the other hand… But they should absolutely be offended if it’s being used as a company expense with no raises in sight
parlor3949@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
I wish I’d treated my teachers better in school. My God they worked hard
Manticore@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Seeing people commenting a put ‘their’ and thought they were correct ‘the’. it’s their own personal teacher, not The Great Teacher of Legend, Whom We All Share
valar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
their own money
midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It is own money
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
The apostrophe-s construction “it’s” suffices for both the contractive form “it is” as well as the possessive form of “it”. “Its” exists solely to satisfy the craven pedantry of elementary school English teachers. Nothing of value is lost by abandoning this archaic construction.
“Its” is deprecated.
Downvote all you like; pedant tears are full of electrolytes.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
… because we learned from them?
AmyAye@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
Wat
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wut? He’s pointing out that teachers dipped into their own money to give kids things like this. America’s education system is absolute dog shit, and it’s intentional. Look who the dumbasses voted for cause “'bortions and mah guns” and no more black presidents, especially a woman. Fuck all of them pdeophiles.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wat
syaochan@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
There own money
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Our own money, comrade
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe OP is a CEO and doesn’t consider wage slaves people