• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    My high school had a rule about the “difficulty” of books you could read. You weren’t supposed to read too high “above your grade”. I assumed this rule was something with the school library and their Accelerated Reader program.

    Nope! Tried to give me ISS because I was reading “Screwjack”, which I brought from home. It wasn’t even in class! I was a fucking junior. A high school junior should be able to handle Hunter S. Thompson.

    According to them it was “college level” and therefore I shouldn’t be reading it. My father raised absolute hell in that office. Don’t think they tried enforcing that rule again.

    They also tried bitching about girls tops until a group of very pissed off redneck fathers had questions about how they were touching the students to measure the width.

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      The AR Reading program that was popular in the early 2000s was an absolute disaster. It basically killed my love of reading for almost 10 years. They wouldn’t let me read books “above my level” based on some BS test that used timed reading. I wasn’t dumb, I just sub-vocalized when I read like a lot of people, so I read slowly. Read slow, don’t finish the test, grade poor, so “no books for you!” said the school.

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      I get the fact that reading too high above your grade means you may be way over your head in vocabulary and grammar, but it’s not entirely applicable to everyone. I read Pride and Prejudice and one friend said I sounded posh from the language I accidentally started using. So if a high schooler or junior high schooler can handle it, why not?

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        If a kid is truly over their head with a book, it won’t be long until they get bored and quit, unless they’re just trying to impress someone and aren’t interested in the book itself.

        Kids should be allowed to unlimited learning and curiosity, this spark you have as a child is very powerful if you let it happen and nurture it instead of trying to fit all students in an iron cast thinking that you know what’s best for them.

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          Also reading a book with words you don’t understand can teach you new words and concepts. So this is basically just a school not letting their students learn.

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      They also tried removed

      This! This right here! This comment was edited by the mods or a censor bot! I fucking told you guys they were doing it!

      I raised hell under a different name for a politically motivated mod changing my comments to agree with them, so I copied all the original comments into a word document and would edit them back to the original after the mod kept changing it, and they banned that username. This is some bullshit, and it needs to fucking stop.

      • zacher_glachl@lemmy.world
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        Sorry you have to find out this way, but your home instance is run by the authoritarian fanboys who build Lemmy and engineered a filtering of “slurs” like bit–ching (modifying it for your benefit as people not from lemmy.ml can see the original word) directly into the source code. Vote with your feet against this type of idiocy.

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        I don’t know what you’re on ab, i can see the whole comment?

        They also tried bitching about girls tops until a group of very pissed off redneck fathers had questions about how they were touching the students to measure the width.

      • Faresh@lemmy.ml
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        I don’t understand. You are on lemmy.ml, which is an instance that does not display slurs in an effort to create a better social environment. It is totally automatic, and doesn’t involve an angry mod manually changing them, because if there really were to be a problem with your post, then the entire post/comment would simply be removed. If you disagree with this, then lemmy.ml isn’t for you, but don’t worry there are many other instances ou there.

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
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        You ever read a 1-star review on Amazon from someone who was clearly too stupid to know how to use the product? Like someone complaining that a USB-C charger doesn’t work because it doesn’t plug into their iphone?

        That’s you. That’s the type of person you are.

        • DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml
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          Jesus Christ you’re late to the party. Ever had the perfect thing to say to someone a day too late, after they already left? That’s you. Read the comments, and get over yourself. Like Chandler without the laugh track.

        • Hhffggshn@lemmy.ml
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          Do you have a suggestion for a different instance? This will be my fourth one, sigh. I have one beehaw community I follow and some are vanned by the.

          • CoderKat@lemm.ee
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            I picked my own carefully. Federates with the biggest instances, has downvotes, and no manual verification of signups.

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        Mine doesn’t show removed, maybe it got censored:

        Nope! Tried to give me ISS because I was reading “Screwjack”, which I brought from home. It wasn’t even in class! I was a f*cking junior. A high school junior should be able to handle Hunter S. Thompson.