Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Boredfrom]

My therapist told me it's because I've blocked so much of it out. And I manifest multiple personalities as a result.

Okay, that part was told by your therapist or was diagnosed by another person in the internet?

[PogiJones]

I'm still going to like your post though.

After you initially skipped liking a good KPDH gif? And now you've even ditched your KPDH profile pic to go back to Pikachu, known ICE agent? Are you even a fan anymore? Were you ever?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

and y'all wonder why teachers don't get support, the system is rigged against them.

[Uncle]

So I just got Raptured. Heaven is pretty slick.


- Lots of sex, actually. They give you amorphous spirits to bang.
- There’s a meatloaf buffet featuring wagyu, very good!
- There’s a spiritual CTRL+F function to search for people.
- Can confirm Charlie Kirk is not here.

bire access in heaven  

god is on our side

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I'm still going to like your post though.

After you initially skipped liking a good KPDH gif? And now you've even ditched your KPDH profile pic to go back to Pikachu, known ICE agent? Are you even a fan anymore? Were you ever?

you can spit in my mouth, cum on my face, fuck my ass, and call me a /pol/ user, but you will NEVER say I'm not a fan of Kpop Demon Hunters!

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

That's a step too fucking far.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

so now both Sinclair and Nexstar are refusing to budge on Kimmel which is like 70% of US broadcasting, so he will be airing to almost no one, in an already threatened genre/time slot

I'll still be getting Jimmy and that's all that matters. 

[Boredfrom]

and y'all wonder why teachers don't get support, the system is rigged against them.

The dude really paints a sad picture about the situation but some stuff like “multiple personalities”  or the “black outs” says another thing about why he was fired.  

I sympathize with him about not wanting to get stigmatized by the entire town.

[Propagandhim]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-think-of-vaush-nowadays.1303998/page-2

Like most white lib debate bros, he gave more grace to self-admitted Nazis than Black people. Utterly useless to any material cause.

Nepenthe is using the "material" word in every other post now. Must be some youtube video essays making the rounds that constantly use that word. Oh, if you think this is a frivolous complaint, let me remind you, Nepenthe is all I'm here for.  It's the 24/7 Nepenthe Show in my brain when I'm on this website.  I'm here for the season premier and the season finale all day, and they're playing Time of Your Life by Green Day throughout the whole thing.   I do not care about anything else -- just that raw dog, 100 hunnit pahcent, sticky icky Nepenthe hotness.  If she posts about liking the color of her socks, I'm gonna be here writing about how fucked up those socks are.  If she dislikes those socks, I'm going to be here making sure those socks get their redemption snyder cut arc.  Fuck yall asses

[Jansen]

I never believe people that say they were diagnosed with autism as an adult. Again I wholeheartedly emphasize that they look into the more likely scenario - that they have a personality disorder.

[Jansen]

Doctors are off the chain with diagnosing autism and ADHD apparently. Or people are lying... but who would lie on the internet?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

and y'all wonder why teachers don't get support, the system is rigged against them.

The dude really paints a sad picture about the situation but some stuff like “multiple personalities”  or the “black outs” says another thing about why he was fired.  

I sympathize with him about not wanting to get stigmatized by the entire town.

Oh. A redditor.

[Boredfrom]

What Sinclair and Nexstar are doing is incredibly dangerous and sets a horrifying precedent.

I’m pretty sure people have commented that this has happened before, that’s why Benji was immediately able to guess what actually was going on.

My point is that this isn't over and if we let our anger and outrage stop here then we allow the bad guys to win.

Forcing private companies to keep discourse that they don’t like.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Maybe Disney should simulcast Jimmy on Youtube instead of forcing a private company to show their product?

[Jansen]

Dude claims to even have DID and willingly puts his laundry out there. Would you want him teaching your kids? Silence is golden friend.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Hmm.. if only Disney created a platform of sorts that bypasses cable and television companies..

Sigh, but I can't think of anything like that.. Maybe it's something I boycotted out of my memory.

[Jansen]

Hmm.. if only Disney created a platform of sorts that bypasses cable and television companies..

Sigh, but I can't think of anything like that.. Maybe it's something I boycotted out of my memory.

I find the balls on Disney impressive considering the Exodus that happened because of big Jimmy and then they decide to increase the prices of Hulu ect.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Dude claims to even have DID and willingly puts his laundry out there. Would you want him teaching your kids? Silence is golden friend.

The principal should be cracking down on the bad behavior students instead of incentivizing passing barely functioning young adults for funding. 

The teacher should teach instead of putting their personal business out there. 

and you, Jansen, of all people should turn on Soda Pop right now.

[jooseloose]

Members only so log into the riotous account
https://www.resetera.com/threads/vent-ive-been-asked-to-resign-my-teaching-position-over-a-bullying-talk.1305621/

I'm still in complete shock right now, I don't really have a lot of friends, and my therapist is busy, so I need to get this out there to someone...

I teach (taught) at a fairly upper middle class suburban middle school in Kansas. This was my second year at this school, and I really liked the administration and the people I worked with. It was honestly the best teaching experience -- at least dealing with adults -- that I've had in eight years of teaching. Moving here from Oklahoma was such a breath of fresh air for me. While I was a high school teacher before, the transition to middle school was a bit rough, but I found my footing last year and was doing well. But I admit, I always had better tact with the high schoolers, and it took me a while to figure out how to...change how I approach certain subjects between the two age levels. But again, I found my footing.

This year, however, the students have been extremely tough to deal with. Anyone in education right now can probably guess why -- attitudes, lack of effort or care, straight disrespect and defiance, etc. And they've been absolutely HORRIBLE to each other. I've ALWAYS prided myself on being anti-bullying and staunchly, at that. I do not tolerate it for reasons I'll get into in a minute. I told my kids Day One I won't tolerate harassment and bullying because I have several students on my roster who have various physical or developmental issues. And I told my students they can always come to me and talk to me if they have problems or need someone to listen to them. I've always wanted to be a champion for students who are overlooked. The athletes have their champions. The smart kids have their champions. The popular kids have their champions. I'm always the champion of the kids who are overlooked, picked on, who don't fit in or don't want to fit in. And I've been VERY successful at it. I've forged relationships with students over the years that last until today. I've been to two weddings of former students, photographed another of another student, and am in contact with many since graduation.

About three weeks ago, a young girl who was born without a hand on one arm, came to me and told me she wanted to commit suicide because her classmates were so mean to her and wouldn't leave her alone about her hand. Another student a few days later came up to me and told me that another student had threatened her sexually. In my classroom, I've heard multiple students saying horrible things to each other. Each time, I would address it through our school's disciplinary policy, but it wasn't stopping it. Sure, they get a slap on the wrist punishment, maybe a day of ISS, and then they're back in the classroom doing the same damn shit again. And when you call them out on it, it's always, "What? I was just playing" or "What? They're just words" or some derivative. It was the same shit I heard from my bullies when I was in school. And when I would complain to my teachers, I was often told, "sticks and stones can break your bones, but words will never hurt you."

The 2x4 that broke the camel's back happened on a Wednesday when a student raised his hand to answer a question during class discussion and gave an absolutely amazing, insightful answer. But he stuttered. He has a medical stutter and he struggled for a few seconds to get his words together before he finished his statement. No big deal. Except a football player in the room shouts out loudly, "Bu...Bu...Bu...get it out already!" The kid was almost in tears. Again, I handled it through the school's disciplinary system, which involves signing a "conduct card" that does nothing except show them they're being bad. If they get enough signatures, they get lunch detention. Like that's going to deter a football player from being an ass in class and getting a laugh out of his classmates for it. My blood was boiling.

I talked it over with my teaching team and I decided I was going to sit down with each of my classes and share my story of how I was bullied in school. From third grade through 11th grade, I was severely bullied over how I talked because I moved to a different region of the country, over my weight, over the fact that my mom died in childbirth, over the fact that I didn't know my biological father, over how I was poor, etc. It was absolutely relentless. And the teachers did nothing. This was the 90s, so bullying was still seen as a rite of passage for kids to go through. I even had teachers tell me that. Being bullied builds character. It built character, alright.

I started therapy this past year and have been diagnosed with severe forms of depression and anxiety, severe childhood trauma resulting in a diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder, and autism. My undiagnosed autism along with my undiagnosed ADHD (my grandfather didn't believe in mental health) was probably a big part of why I was bullied. I truly cannot remember the vast majority of my childhood and young adult years. My memories of my life up until 24ish are patchy, at best. My therapist told me it's because I've blocked so much of it out. And I manifest multiple personalities as a result. My wife has even seen it in me, she just never knew what was happening until my therapist diagnosed me.

The bullying got so bad in school that in 10th grade, I started snapping. I violently attacked two of my bullies in direct retaliation to physical assaults on me. One tried to do an illegal wrestling move on me during gym one day in an effort to severely hurt my already damaged ankle. I ended up banging his head into the gym floor multiple times while the gym coach -- a Vietnam veteran -- looked on and said nothing. A few months later, on the school bus, a bully kicked me in the back of the head and knocked my brand new hat into the red clay mud, ruining it. I jumped up on the bus, slammed his head into the window and threw him into the floorboard of the bus and and choked him out until I was physically thrown off the bus. At one point, I had a list of about 10 students I wanted to take out. And I knew where to get the guns. But I knew it was wrong, and so I told my grandfather, and we moved at the end of my junior year. I graduated high school in a different state and that was the end of the bullying. But it still stuck with me, and still does, as a nearly 40 year-old man now.

I've attempted suicide twice in my life -- once by taking a knife to my wrist and arm and another when I tried to hang myself -- both due to bullying and the trauma. I even have a tattoo of the house sigil of House Martel with the words, "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" to cover the scar on my arm as a reminder of how far I've come. I shared that with my students earlier in the year when they asked about my tattoos. I reminded them of that story when I shared my bullying experiences.

I concluded each class talk with a plea to them: it's perfectly fine not to like someone, or to be annoyed by someone, but there's no need to react to everything they say or do, or to have a comment. Just move on with your life and your day and ignore them. Respect each student in your class enough to just let them live their lives without interference from you. I shared this story with my students, telling them each and every step of the way, I was wrong to react violently, I was wrong to have these violent thoughts, I feel horrible about what I did -- even today. I still carry that guilt around with me today. But I've used that pain as a way to connect with disenfranchised students over the years. I've shared this story in every district I've worked in. I've never had any blowback...until now.

The talk played out on Sept. 11. I had to take a half-day of school on Friday because I wasn't feeling well. I came back last Monday and my principal came to speak with me about it. He said some students were made uncomfortable by the talk, a few parents reached out to him to inquire why I was having such a talk and sharing my suicide attempts or concerned I was going to shoot up the school. He understood the context and just told me that he appreciated what I was doing, but that I was an ELA teacher first and foremost and he wanted to ensure that this type of talk didn't interfere with that. That was the end of the discussion and it was dropped.

Tuesday, the students were behaving horribly and I ended up having to discipline about 10 students for behaviors and attitudes. All of a sudden, Wednesday, I get a call from HR telling me I'm indefinitely suspended pending an investigation that will lead to my termination if the things I had said in the classroom were true. My principal had no idea that had happened. No one from HR contacted him about it. He was blindsided as much as I was. I wasn't even allowed to get any of my personal stuff, including about $3,000 in personal camera equipment I was using as yearbook sponsor. Parents -- either in retaliation or due to not being satisfied with my principal -- went directly to the school board, demanding I be fired.

So I typed up a formal letter, explaining exactly everything I said, the context of why I said it, what prompted the discussion, and the positive impact that it's had on so many students. I've had literally dozens of students reach out to me via e-mail or in person to thank me for sharing my story because it made them feel seen and understood. A severely autistic girl in my class gave me a hug and said I was the first teacher who understood what she deals with every single day. The girl with the missing hand wrote me a letter thanking me as the only teacher who's ever spoken up and defended her. I made a difference in the lives of those kids in that moment. And since I've been on suspension, I've had many more e-mails asking where I'm at and concerned I'm not coming back.

I had a formal interview with my principal yesterday morning and discussed the same things and he felt I did nothing wrong. He even told me he thought it would blow over once he had a chance to tell the board what happened. But, it didn't.

I received a call first thing this morning. The board "discussed" the situation yesterday and recommended I be fired because it was inappropriate to talk about those things in the classroom. It was "too intense" and made some students "feel uncomfortable." They're terminating me under what HR even admitted was a very "broad interpretation" of a clause that states that a teacher can be reprimanded for "immoral conduct that damages the teacher-student relationship in the classroom." It was such a broad interpretation that HR admitted to me they had to bring in their lawyers to review my contract language and the parent/student statements to make sure it'd stick. Notice, they did not review my statement in this -- only the parents. The same HR person told me on the phone this morning that there was truly nothing I could have said or done or any context I could have given to save my job because the statements were so severe, that discussing cutting my body and covering them with tattoos and shooting up a school was too much for students. But I didn't fucking say that, as you could read in my statement and my interview with my principal. And I wouldn't be able to talk to any board members about it, their decision had been made.

My contract gives me the right to request an arbitration hearing, where I can argue my case, but HR straight up threatened me, saying if I were to do that, they would rescind the offer to resign "with dignity" and that they would enforce a $20,000 contract liquidation fee if the arbitrator still found I could be terminated. And that if I were to go through with that, there's a "good chance I will never teach in Kansas again."

It truly feels that I've been straight up targeted. One of my students e-mailed me Monday asking if I was OK because they had heard other students in the bathroom bragging that they got me fired. And it's somewhat ironic because I made a statement on Facebook after the Charlie Kirk shooting and it was screenshotted by someone and shared with a place I haven't worked at in eight years, demanding I be fired from there. But when you search me online, that's the only place that was associated with my name. There's nothing that connects me even to the district here, unless you knew specifically where I worked. So I deactivated my Facebook profile literally that night, admittedly freaking out a little bit that something might get back to my school in an attempt to get me fired. And then this comes up.

I just feel like I've seen kids in need of help and they weren't receiving it, so I spoke up to at least hopefully generate some empathy in students and to show them there are consequences to their actions and words that can be felt for years after the fact. I think it's ironic as fuck that students who were "made to feel uncomfortable" by my talk are some of the very students making others feel uncomfortable every day in the classroom. I never threatened anyone, I never advocated for violence. If anything, I specifically said my violent actions were wrong and it should have never reached that point, and that's why I'm having this conversation with them. But students, either because they just chose to listen to what they wanted to hear, or intentionally misconstrued my statements, tell parents that I want to shoot up the school and I cut myself and cover them with tattoos, and that just freaks everyone out.

It makes me want to give up. I'm diabetic and I'm on multiple medications for my mental health. I'm losing my insurance and access to my meds. I'm scared for my wife, more than anything. I don't know what to do. I want to fight this, but I feel like the arbitration hearing will be as one-sided as this "investigation" was, and then I'd have to pay $20,000. I'm just supposed to shut up, sign an NDA, resign quietly, and let the whole community talk like I'm a psychopathic school shooter.

Sorry for the long rant, I just needed to get that out there.

Agreed Def talk to a lawyer. I'd also recommend removing any identifying information from your post. State you live, where you moved from, location, as much of that as possible.

I moved it over to Members-Only before making my post, so nobody can see it outside of those of us with accounts on the site. So there's no need to worry about that.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/appletv-postpones-jessica-chastain-thriller-%E2%80%98the-savant%E2%80%99-three-days-before-release-amid-current-events.1305864/
Secret Charlie Kirk thread. Let's see if the b-dumbs will set it to private

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Hmm.. if only Disney created a platform of sorts that bypasses cable and television companies..

Sigh, but I can't think of anything like that.. Maybe it's something I boycotted out of my memory.

I find the balls on Disney impressive considering the Exodus that happened because of big Jimmy and then they decide to increase the prices of Hulu ect.

All of this was a ploy to increase Disney+ revenue. Now that Jimmy is back and stations are still boycotting him those righteously needing their dose of JIMMY can resubscribe to Disney+!

We love Marvel we love Star Wars we love Jimmy! Yum yum yum! Give me more to consoom! 

[Jansen]

. I even have a tattoo of the house sigil of House Martel with the words, "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" to cover the scar on my arm as a reminder of how far I've come.

SHAME it didn't take

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Heaven forbid we upset online hate groups.

They removed the twin towers from Spiderman to not upset capitalist Americans who couldn't understand the reasoning as to why America deserved 9/11. Y'all ain't crying about that though.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Apparently he is gonna have Newsom on...

edit-not official, but rumblings

Colbert has Newsom tonight

Uh-uh Colbert sisters.. Time for another boycott?

[clockwork5]

It’s okay to have bad thoughts, kids. When I was your age I had a list of people I wanted to murder and look how well I turned out.

[Blueball]

You're LITERALLY talking ot a /pol/ user.

unlike you I judge people based on the content of their words

No you don't. You're on a site where people constantly stalk, harass and dox resertera users over the most innocuous shit just because they post on Era. There are people here constantly talking about "Era" like is a single entity, while it's less of an echo chamber of this forum.

You literally have people basically throw a fit over an innocuous morrigan post because you spent the last 10 years obsessing over her.

[JoeBoy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/appletv-postpones-jessica-chastain-thriller-%E2%80%98the-savant%E2%80%99-three-days-before-release-amid-current-events.1305864/
Secret Charlie Kirk thread. Let's see if the b-dumbs will set it to private

rom writer/executive producer/showrunner Melissa James Gibson, Fifth Season and Anonymous Content, The Savant follows an undercover investigator known as "The Savant" (Chastain), who infiltrates online hate groups to stop domestic extremists before they act.

Given recent events, she’s probably already on ERA.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

You're LITERALLY talking ot a /pol/ user.

unlike you I judge people based on the content of their words

No you don't. You're on a site where people constantly stalk, harass and dox resertera users over the most innocuous shit just because they post on Era. There are people here constantly talking about "Era" like is a single entity, while it's less of an echo chamber of this forum.

You literally have people basically throw a fit over an innocuous morrigan post because you spent the last 10 years obsessing over her.

Get b-dubs to unban Rustynails and I will quit the bire. 

[Blueball]

I'm still going to like your post though.

>Caring about likes
Redditor alert 

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/autistic-era-ot2-spectrum-is-green.1305867/

Now you can get all your screeching in one place