The apostrophe-s construction "it's" suffices for both the contractive form "it is" as well as the possessive form of "it". "Its" exists solely to satisfy the craven pedantry of elementary school English teachers. Nothing of value is lost by abandoning this archaic construction.
"Its" is deprecated.
Downvote all you like; pedant tears are full of electrolytes.
Wut? He's pointing out that teachers dipped into their own money to give kids things like this. America's education system is absolute dog shit, and it's intentional. Look who the dumbasses voted for cause "'bortions and mah guns" and no more black presidents, especially a woman. Fuck all of them pdeophiles.
Can't expect kids to understand something like. Also I doubt those teachers expect that kind of empathy and compassion from people with incomplete brains.
And that's even before they have to deal with parents who think their little precious child acting like an out of control chimp with rabbies in a classroom is absolutelly normal.
So, you do expect it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like shit. My high schoolers said all kinds of horrific nasty shit about me because I was clearly gay, including graphic and specific discussions about my supposed inability to pleasure a woman, which was stupid - but in any other context that would be considered a hostile workplace environment and wouldn’t be tolerated.
Now I mostly work with younger kids, and they do not have a filter. They say things that hurt. When they say those things, I can certainly acknowledge that they don’t have the level of empathy and compassion that an adult has, but that doesn’t mean it feels good.
Teaching and working with kids leads to emotional burnout. You can only handle those sorts of comments so much before it starts to fuck with you, especially if you lack a support system elsewhere.
We shouldn’t expect teachers to be Jesus. At least not when the pay is so shit that most have to have a second job (which also does not help on the burnout end).
This meme is soooooooooo old. I remember commenting about how "it's" is really stupid and should be "their" instead. Maybe it was even back on reddit, which would mean this is a repost of a 3+ yo meme. I know this is true for a lot of memes but its insane that i remember this specific one.
There's only so much space the "names of all steam engine trains in Britain in the 19th century" can occupy in one's brain, so there's plenty of room for old memes.
I never thanked them because of the gaslighting and unfair criticism directly from them, and the blind eye they turned to the bullying, harassment and sexual assaults from other students. Yes, plural assaults.
Elon could pay for pizza parties for every classroom on Earth with less impact on his finances than a penny is worth to that teacher. How fucked up we have become.
I think killing is too easy. Forced internment in a labor camp so they can experience what they've put others through, along with regular death matches of the top earners in the prison population for the entertainment of the people seems more fitting to me.
Bro, the parents at the school I taught at had the schools number blocked (if they had cell service at all) because they didn’t want to hear about their children beating the shit out of other children, or destroying school property, or smoking pot….
I had a pizza party once. I got paid $2200 a month and already spent at least $50 a month on supplies (kinda hard to teach chemistry if you don’t have chemicals…) I gave one of my class a pizza party, spent more than a hundred dollars.
Did any of them thank me? LOL. No, they complained because they could only have one slice.
Seriously. I taught SpEd BD/LD/Autistic for 20 years. I can't even get into it because I get so pissed. Parents are fucking garbage then they blame everyone else but themselves for their problems they created. Get fucking over it.
At least my parents over 20 years. Kids were awesome. Gen Ed isn't much better, they think their kid is Einstein and that they've know how to teach them.
look up the salaries of teachers in your district. they are publicly available as public employee salaries are publicly posted somewhere on the government website. see how they could probably earn more doing anything else? yeah.
My 6th grade teacher paid to take the entire class to Knotts Berry Farm before we 'graduated' from elementary school. The school only paid for the bus and gas afaik.
My point there not being that most teachers should do more, just that my 6th grade teacher was cool as fuck and extremely selfless
Seeing people commenting a put 'their' and thought they were correct 'the'. it's their own personal teacher, not The Great Teacher of Legend, Whom We All Share
so now we're shaming children/adolescents for not being hip to all the dynamics of american capitalism?
this isn't even funny as a meme. teachers are trying to educate kids even if they're bad at it. what are you doing? reposting lame internet wisecracks?
70 Comments
valar@lemmy.ca · 222 pts · 82d
their own money
midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 66 pts · 82d
It is own money
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · -31 pts · 82d
The apostrophe-s construction "it's" suffices for both the contractive form "it is" as well as the possessive form of "it". "Its" exists solely to satisfy the craven pedantry of elementary school English teachers. Nothing of value is lost by abandoning this archaic construction.
"Its" is deprecated.
Downvote all you like; pedant tears are full of electrolytes.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 82d
Looks like your brain is deprecated.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 82d
You know, i wasn't going to, but I could really use some electrolytes. Thanks :)
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 82d
Is they're and their deprecated too?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 81d
Not under this rationale, no.
nao@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 82d
If the goal is to simplify, shouldn't it be "its" in all cases?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 81d
The "+s/es" construction typically indicates plurality. "It" is fundamentally singular, so there is no justification for "its".
"It's" eliminates more exceptions to various rules for word construction; it achieves greater simplification.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 82d
tbh the distinction isn't necessary in casual writing (although it's still considered respectful to use it in formal writing)
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
the only people who think that the distinction isn't necessary are morons who can't spell.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 82d
if it's understandable it honestly doesn't really matter
english spelling is a fuckin mess anyways
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 81d
Found the English teacher.
syaochan@feddit.it · 4 pts · 82d
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 82d
Our own money, comrade
Did I do that right?
TORFdot0@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
Maybe OP is a CEO and doesn’t consider wage slaves people
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · -33 pts · 82d
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 51 pts · 82d
.. because we learned from them?
mysticalone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 82d
It*
AmyAye@nord.pub · 21 pts · 82d
Wat
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 82d
Wut? He's pointing out that teachers dipped into their own money to give kids things like this. America's education system is absolute dog shit, and it's intentional. Look who the dumbasses voted for cause "'bortions and mah guns" and no more black presidents, especially a woman. Fuck all of them pdeophiles.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 82d
Wat
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 82d
“It’s” is not even the right its.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 82d
She's trying so hard for you and this is the best you've got!?
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 20 pts · 82d
If this is a serious post, why shitpost?
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 39 pts · 82d
Can't expect kids to understand something like. Also I doubt those teachers expect that kind of empathy and compassion from people with incomplete brains.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 82d
gruelling job with little praise
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 82d
And that's even before they have to deal with parents who think their little precious child acting like an out of control chimp with rabbies in a classroom is absolutelly normal.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 81d
So, you do expect it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like shit. My high schoolers said all kinds of horrific nasty shit about me because I was clearly gay, including graphic and specific discussions about my supposed inability to pleasure a woman, which was stupid - but in any other context that would be considered a hostile workplace environment and wouldn’t be tolerated.
Now I mostly work with younger kids, and they do not have a filter. They say things that hurt. When they say those things, I can certainly acknowledge that they don’t have the level of empathy and compassion that an adult has, but that doesn’t mean it feels good.
Teaching and working with kids leads to emotional burnout. You can only handle those sorts of comments so much before it starts to fuck with you, especially if you lack a support system elsewhere.
We shouldn’t expect teachers to be Jesus. At least not when the pay is so shit that most have to have a second job (which also does not help on the burnout end).
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 82d
Children are quite ignorant.
echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 82d
I'm not ignorant, my parents are married
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 82d
I don't know why this made me laugh out loud, but it did.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 82d
This meme is soooooooooo old. I remember commenting about how "it's" is really stupid and should be "their" instead. Maybe it was even back on reddit, which would mean this is a repost of a 3+ yo meme. I know this is true for a lot of memes but its insane that i remember this specific one.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 82d
tbh.. 3y is not something i would call old in this context ;)
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 6 pts · 82d
Three years?? Bro I wasn't even born back then
kamen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 82d
Imagine all the valuable things you could've remembered instead.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 82d
There's only so much space the "names of all steam engine trains in Britain in the 19th century" can occupy in one's brain, so there's plenty of room for old memes.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 25 pts · 82d
Sorry, I didn't know about capitalism when I was 9
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 82d
That's your parents' fault.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 81d
I mean yeah, my parents are not even remotely anti-capitalist lol
tomiant@piefed.social · 20 pts · 82d
"it's" is funny AF
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 82d
"it's"
Well....
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 82d
I know right, it's "its".
Not only do they refer to the teacher as an it, they didn't even pay attention to the rules about apostrophes.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 82d
87Six@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 82d
I don't think that's what they meant when they were asking for more inclusive speech XD
*I make that mistake too, English is my 2nd language
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 81d
Teachers are "its" now, eh?
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 81d
No " it is"
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 81d
Dude, "their", at least.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 81d
What if it one of those AI teachers the techbros want to force upon us?
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 80d
"What if" indeed
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 9 pts · 82d
This meme makes me sick to death every fucking time I see it...
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 82d
Because you never thanked her for her sacrifices to help raise you?
wake@quokk.au · 22 pts · 82d
Thanked it for it's own sacrifices, ffs
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 82d
I never thanked them because of the gaslighting and unfair criticism directly from them, and the blind eye they turned to the bullying, harassment and sexual assaults from other students. Yes, plural assaults.
Crocodile tears over skimpy pizza can get fucked.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 82d
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 82d
Elon could pay for pizza parties for every classroom on Earth with less impact on his finances than a penny is worth to that teacher. How fucked up we have become.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 82d
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 82d
I think killing is too easy. Forced internment in a labor camp so they can experience what they've put others through, along with regular death matches of the top earners in the prison population for the entertainment of the people seems more fitting to me.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 82d
Bro, the parents at the school I taught at had the schools number blocked (if they had cell service at all) because they didn’t want to hear about their children beating the shit out of other children, or destroying school property, or smoking pot….
I had a pizza party once. I got paid $2200 a month and already spent at least $50 a month on supplies (kinda hard to teach chemistry if you don’t have chemicals…) I gave one of my class a pizza party, spent more than a hundred dollars.
Did any of them thank me? LOL. No, they complained because they could only have one slice.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Tiral@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
Seriously. I taught SpEd BD/LD/Autistic for 20 years. I can't even get into it because I get so pissed. Parents are fucking garbage then they blame everyone else but themselves for their problems they created. Get fucking over it.
At least my parents over 20 years. Kids were awesome. Gen Ed isn't much better, they think their kid is Einstein and that they've know how to teach them.
starik@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 81d
Yay pronoun misuse engagement bait
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 81d
No way major pizza chains could afford free pizza party once a year.
Dominos and little Caesars squeaked by with $5B in revenue last year.
robocall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 81d
Shoulda spent that pizza money on some grammar lessons
Emerald@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 81d
Should spent pizza money grammar some lessons
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 82d
Now this is shitposting.
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 82d
it’s*
ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 82d
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 4 pts · 82d
Not to be ungrateful, Mrs Applegate, but Hot n Readys are like $8, do we need to help you organize a strike?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 82d
look up the salaries of teachers in your district. they are publicly available as public employee salaries are publicly posted somewhere on the government website. see how they could probably earn more doing anything else? yeah.
7101334@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 81d
My 6th grade teacher paid to take the entire class to Knotts Berry Farm before we 'graduated' from elementary school. The school only paid for the bus and gas afaik.
My point there not being that most teachers should do more, just that my 6th grade teacher was cool as fuck and extremely selfless
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 81d
I don't know a kid alive in my grade who wasn't hyped for the pizza party
kofe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 81d
Now workers on the other hand... But they should absolutely be offended if it's being used as a company expense with no raises in sight
parlor3949@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 80d
I wish I'd treated my teachers better in school. My God they worked hard
Manticore@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 81d
Seeing people commenting a put 'their' and thought they were correct 'the'. it's their own personal teacher, not The Great Teacher of Legend, Whom We All Share
whereitsat@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 82d
so now we're shaming children/adolescents for not being hip to all the dynamics of american capitalism?
this isn't even funny as a meme. teachers are trying to educate kids even if they're bad at it. what are you doing? reposting lame internet wisecracks?