ChubanSandwich comments on Ex-Teachers/Professors of Reddit - What was your "Fuck this." moment?: "The mentality of the American high schooler right now is an incredibly toxic one. They've been sold this idea that they need a perfect 4.0 GPA and extracurriculars and a good ACT/SAT score if they want to get into a "good college", and if they don't get into a "good college" they may as well sign up to work at McDonald's and set up shop in their parent's basement because they are failures who will amount to nothing. This created a strict dichotomy of students who were halfway to an ulcer by the end of 9th grade because they were convinced they needed to be perfect and students who knew they couldn't do that, so they gave up and started doing drugs at 14 years old. I did my best to get through to them, but so many of them had already given up on the system that even if I could reach them, their response would still be "Okay Mr. ChubanSandwich, you're cool, but that doesn't change the way the world works". It was honestly heartbreaking.
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