I Hate How Our Education System Keeps On Failing Us, Save For A Few Good Teachers Everyone Else Is In

I hate how our education system keeps on failing us, save for a few good teachers everyone else is in just for fulfilling the obligation to get the paycheck and students too have gotten so used to the shitty teaching methods that majority never really questions it. I have the English boards tomorrow and here i am ranting about how it disappoints me to see how chapters like 'Should Wizard Hit Mommy?'(this is one hell of a chapter and WE NEED TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT IN CLASS because it has so many layers and issues depicted in it) 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers', 'The Rattrap', 'On The Face of It' and many more that are such great source to stir up very important conversations about male chauvinism, generational gaps, parent-child relations, normalised misogyny, miscommunications, human nature/psychology, grey morals, abelism, bullying, self identity etc etc etc etc being ridiculed and hated by numerous of students just because they have been treated like some silly stories and poems that need to be crammed for the sake of marks. I hate how teachers never try to stir up conversations about the impact these chapters have in our daily lives & thinking and make us question and have discussions about these stories and characters and their dialogues. The literature of our syllabus isn't only for entertainment and cramming, it's for provoking our thoughts and questioning things but alas they waste such great opportunities. (Seeing how most of our teachers aren't equipped with the skills to make use of these chapters in the right way, it's better to remove these chapters because if we don't have discussions about the issues depicted in them, it's just promoting and normalising those issues which isn't a good thing.)

Anyways, all the best for tomorrow guys!!! Hoping CBSE doesn't mess this up again for us :)

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IN THIS BANGTAN SONYEONDAN SHIT FOR LIFE!

something about being a daughter of a mother is always going to be tragic

I really love how Cho Namjoo chose to write Kim Jiyoung's character like a common woman (who every woman could relate to in their daily life) where one could easily invalidate her struggles with points like "but she had a normal and rather nice childhood albeit a little struggle but who doesn't struggle? She had such a nice and supporting husband and such nice colleagues and friends too. She didn't have to face serious abuses and so many people have it so much worse. She should've been grateful for having a rather easier life instead of complaining about everything." Because that is how people refuse to believe that normalised and internalised misogyny exists, that people will be extremely sexist and then validate it by sentences like "it's not like you were physically abused." like only physical abuse comes under misogyny and without it all of our struggles are invalid and exaggerated.

-Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

Seriously I thought the wrapping up of menstrual pads in black poly bags and papers while selling it was an Indian society thing but turns out it isn't. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is more relatable than I thought it would be.