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the-writing-avocado · 3 years

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Rant about school under the cut, sorry

I'm enough, it is sickening at this point. Teachers at my school with a few exceptions don't have a clue about mental health!

I've tried. I wrote an email. That went well. Some small stuff was going to get done.

Teach said "I can't do anything unless the problem is brought forward to me."

So I'm not going to just sit their whilst the sit in their ignorance about how miserable we are.

So I put together a survey that is completely anonymous, and send it out to everyone I can the school email, because I can reach all my friends like that.

I don't force them to do this survey, I don't know who does the survey, and I get TONS of thank yous for doing the survey...

So the teachers find out, and they ask me about it, and tell me I can't send it because it's mental health and I'm not a qualified professional, so I can't ask the questions without putting words in their mouth? I'm not sure how to explain it other than Lead questions, and fair enough, I'm not educated in that. But I didn't realise that at all.

So I tell them, I already sent it out because I like to be honest, and one of the teachers, the same one I spoke to first goes.

"Oh, I thought you had done the right thing."

As if sending the survey out had been the worst decision of my life. Firstly, what will that accomplish besides making me feel guilty for an honest mistake, and making it sound like I'm the biggest disgrace in the world?

So this teacher gets quite angry because of the form and the fact that I sent it using the school email because it goes against school policy, again, I wasn't aware that it did.

I have to delete the form, which I do, but in order to log into my account I have to use two step authentication which requires my phone. So I get that out and I keep it under the table because I'm more comfortable like that, and because it's my phone I'm entitled to my privacy.

And this teacher has the audacity to accuse me of texting someone because 'otherwise I'd have my phone on the table'. Ummm...

So I delete it, and teach says 'I'm not going to lie what you've done is very, very serious.'

So I try to explain why I did it, because I thought more people would be willing to answer if it was from me, their friend, and if it was anonymous, because then the teacher would have a better idea of what as a year group we were feeling and would be able to do something to benefit all of us.

So of course, the they respond by telling me she expected me to come forward about individual, because they needed help. And that if anyone needed help it would be flagged up later this week because one of the groups they were partnered with would be coming in and they also had a survey that wasn't anonymous - which no one is going to answer truthfully.

I don't think they realise, we aren't going to come forward because we don't want our parents told about our mental health and we don't trust the teachers because they've never done anything in the past. There is such a huge gap in understanding between students and teachers they are actually ignorant to the fact that not nearly as many individuals would need help if they made school an environment for us to succeed.

It's like sticking a snake in the arctic. It wouldn't survive, not because it is too dumb to live, or because it doesn't have any survival methods, but because it isn't fit to survive in the arctic! Put it in an environment where it has the resources to survive and it will thrive!

Give us an environment we can survive in and we'll do well and a lot of us that are suffering will be able to heal, and those that aren't will be a much smaller number and will feel more comfortable going to get help!

I just don't get how they can't see this! It's so, so arrogant. I wouldn't have done anything, I would never have had to do anything had their methods and surveys and partnerships with mental health organisations done anything! But they don't!

It's just like with the theory of bacteria and the cholera outbreak, when Snow suggested that it wasn't miasma, but because a baby had gotten cholera, had their nappies thrown into a waste thing near the well, where there was a leak, leading to water in that well being polluted and the following cholera outbreak in that part of London.

The council refused to believe their water was polluted with raw sewage! Because arrogance reasons!

#rant #school #sorry

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