This may come off as a rant but I'm annoyed by how infantilizing everything in the world is today.
Story time. My wife and I had another child a few months ago. When we take our daughter to her checkups the receptionist hands us this tablet and we have to answer a bunch of questions before we can even go back. It proceeds to ask us questions like:
Do you have any guns in the house? (None of your fucking business)
If so, how are they stored? (Again, none of your fucking business)
Name three things you love about your child (Why am I having to answer open response questions?)
What makes this organization think they have the right to ask me these invasive questions? It feels like everything is this way now. Every company or organization treats you with this infantilizing tone like they have to guide you through life.
I don't remember it being this way when I was younger. Has anyone else noticed this shift?
From my experience, the elementary schools are flooded with FOB nons every week with no support.
The teachers get no warning, the principals just walk the new niglets to their classrooms and drop them off cold. A lot of these mini invaders don't even speak English. The teachers are advised to use Google Translate to communicate with them for the year. But then there’s new edicts that the staff also aren't allowed to have their personal phones physically in the classroom.
The autism explosion has also grinded any pretense of instruction to dust. These little spergs have daily screaming meltdowns assaulting fellow students & staff. And the admin doesn't do shit about it like the feckless cowards they are. One or two of these schizos essentially has the classroom locked down for half the day while they have their tantrums because modern teachers aren't allowed to lay a hand on a student for any reason, even in an emergency.
I worked for a bit with teens in a residential setting. Some were criminals, most were just dealing with being abused and neglected for years before being placed.
We'd be around their classroom during the school day, too.
Best thing about that situation is that we could put hands on em. I don't miss 5-hour long restraint sessions, but it sounds a hell of a lot better than this.