Tracy Morgan faces backlash after criticizing school teachers

[TaylorSwift 162,003]

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Edited June 11 by Duolingo

[dynamite 66,525]

Off topic im in love with that Marcello guy whatever his name is from SNL 

So cute and handsome and dorky looking please marry me 

[Bronco 24,124]

"Thats all there ever going to be"

So an educator is a bad thing?

Makes sense since the only work ive ever seen him be part of he was consistently playing a dumb ass. Intelligence must be intimidating to a weak man like him

[River 126,975]

I find adults that still has this weird anger about their school teachers to be very dumb lol

[Addison Rae 18,059]

he’s generalising which isn’t great but there’s something to be said about the bad teachers that instil fear and are horrible to children/repeat harmful rhetoric such as “you’ll never amount to x y or z”. projecting your own feelings of failure onto children is very weird!

[ANVEEROY 65,178]

As an academic myself, I don’t know what to say. 

[dynamite 66,525]

2 minutes ago, ANVEEROY said:

As an academic myself, I don’t know what to say. 

[Petie Estie 5,702]

y'all please don't act like you don't know exactly what he means lol 

[Bronco 24,124]

6 minutes ago, Petie Estie said:

y'all please don't act like you don't know exactly what he means lol 

Yeah a rich guy taking the piss out of the minimum wage and saying he can't stand teachers is pretty clear. 
He's an weak and inspid little **** who thinks he's something special because he has money.

Edited June 11 by Bronco

[Petie Estie 5,702]

Just now, Bronco said:

Yeah a rich guy taking the piss out of the minimum wage and saying he can't stand teachers is pretty clear. 
He's an weak and febrile little **** who thinks he's something special because he has money.

okay lol. In this context i feel like he's just defending the person he's talking to and exaggerating a bit for comedic effect. Teachers do cause trauma sometimes and tell kids they have to limit themselves. There's also a racial component to that experience where it happens more to black kids.

Either way who cares what Tracy Morgan thinks, he's not the secretary of education 

[Bronco 24,124]

1 minute ago, Petie Estie said:

okay lol. In this context i feel like he's just defending the person he's talking to and exaggerating a bit for comedic effect. Teachers do cause trauma sometimes and tell kids they have to limit themselves. There's also a racial component to that experience where it happens more to black kids.

Either way who cares what Tracy Morgan thinks, he's not the secretary of education 

I mean Marcello has a point and hits on something ADHD kids see all the time - but notice how he's defending teachers?

Meanwhile, even after that point. Morgan goes onto further attack teachers. 

If we want to start talking about issues of bigotry. Tracey Morgan has said he'd stab his son if he came out as gay. Let's not act like he's some moral arbiter talking on legitimate issues facing black kids or kids with SEND. 

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19 minutes ago, Petie Estie said:

okay lol. In this context i feel like he's just defending the person he's talking to and exaggerating a bit for comedic effect. Teachers do cause trauma sometimes and tell kids they have to limit themselves. There's also a racial component to that experience where it happens more to black kids.

Either way who cares what Tracy Morgan thinks, he's not the secretary of education 

Hi, Black teacher here. I get that discipline disproportionately affects students of color, but that mainly comes from admin, not the teacher.

Also, kids go to school to learn, right? So a part of what they learn is self-regulation. Good teachers are able to redirect misguided behaviors without causing emotional trauma. I would say that 9/10 teachers are able to teach without traumatizing their students. Obviously there are going to be bad teachers but that's definitely the exception and not the rule.

This whole discourses sucks, especially today when teachers are getting 💩 on from all sides. Having celebrities (however irrelevant) speak out about how teachers deserve less or are misguided doesn't help us at all. Especially when we're literally under attack from the current administration. 

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45 minutes ago, Addison Rae said:

he’s generalising which isn’t great but there’s something to be said about the bad teachers that instil fear and are horrible to children/repeat harmful rhetoric such as “you’ll never amount to x y or z”. projecting your own feelings of failure onto children is very weird!

Thats quite the broad stroke.  

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1 hour ago, River said:

I find adults that still has this weird anger about their school teachers to be very dumb lol

Unless they were verbally abusive, which I have faced. You are absolutely right that in some cases there can be a "I get it", but as someone who has seen verbally abusive teachers there are valid reasons to still be upset.

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2 hours ago, dynamite said:

Off topic im in love with that Marcello guy whatever his name is from SNL 

So cute and handsome and dorky looking please marry me 

His deep voice & rowdy persona are so ****ing sexy

Having said that...

these "actor on actor" interviews somehow always make BOTH people come across as atrociously stupid & annoying