How old are they that they called labeled as ableist? This would not have happened in 2000s elementary
I don't know - the term "ableist" has certainly spiked in popularity in the last ten years or so, but even in the 90's you'd get a bollocking for throwing around the terms "mong" or "spaz" or "flid" within earshot of a teacher.
I mean, I can see why - I hate the terms myself now. but when you're in single digits of age, it's just used as another derisory term rather than a specific slight at someone's physical or mental development challenges.
It still got you in hot water if you were daft enough to get caught shouting it though.
I'm not native and I discovered the word by reading a Lemmy community's rules.
I had a teacher in the 90's call me a spaz.
Spaz was very mild in the US and very serious in the UK. Meant kinda different things too.
The opposite for extremity in these countries at the time was fanny. Meant completely different things.
Were you in a big city? Mine was pretty small. I wonder if that has to do with it? I never heard the word until maybe high school or college
Nah I was in a pretty small town, semi-rural but not buttfuck-nowhere either.
It certainly wasn't labelled "ableist" then, it was simply "being a little shit" - I only really learned of the term ableism around 10-15 years ago.
Hm.
They could be in 4th grade in 2010, and be 25 now posting this. I could also believe that elementary school teachers could be among the first 5% of people to adopt a new super-inclusive type of brand new lefty language that's just starting to be used for a new type of friendly inclusiveness in 2000.
elementary school teachers could be among the first 5% of people to adopt a new super-inclusive type of brand new lefty language
Elementary school teachers are also more likely to crack down on any sort of insulting language in general. I remember when I was a kid in the 4th grade, our teacher would punish us for asking, "So?" So was short for 'So what?' At the time it was (sometimes properly, give me a break, Mrs. H) a way to insultingly say that someone else's statement was meaningless.
It wasn't because it was ableist, or anything else you could point a finger to except insulting, and teachers head that sort of interaction off early.
Makes sense.
I'm about 10 years older and have never heard the term in person, only in lefty online communities like Lemmy. I even took an ASL class from a deaf person (highly recommend, though maybe my teacher just rocked) as an adult with my SO, and we didn't even use the term "ablism," but instead just "hearing" to describe people who aren't deaf (so the concept, not the term). That would've been mid to late 2010s, IIRC.
Couple that with the claimed suspension in 4th grade, and I have serious doubts any of this happened. To get suspended, you need to be starting fist fights or something, even cussing or intentionally insulting people would probably only land normal detention.
Could be that they didn't say ableist at the time it happened but anon remembers it that way it just tells it that way.
Anon after getting back:
The name’s Richard
Retarded Richard
Principal:
"OK this kid is fucking based, I'll reward him with a week off"
When I went to school, one kid during that exercise said that his name was so-and-so, and one thing he liked to do was stick his thumb up his ass.
He was known as "Thumbs" for the next four years, possibly longer. I actually don't think I ever learned his name, he was just Thumbs.
I knew a kid who was caught beating his meat on a school trip, and was thereafter known as Spanky.
Surely older than 4th grade, puberty for boys tends to not happen until 6th or 7th grade.
I can see it now... I'm called first; I don't know what an adjective is (I still struggle); I panic from the social anxiety of stage fright; I awkwardly try to say anything at all, so I can sit the fuck down and move on; so I say, "Really Richard"
I'm told that's an adverb, and I need to use an adjective. Now I'm pale as a ghost and about to faint from the panic. I stutter, "Richmond Richard?". I'm informed that's a proper noun, so I quickly try again (visibly sweating) spouting, "Reading Richard!"... and am told to sit down, because that was a noun and I've now been assigned extra homework on grammar.
Someone snickers and says "Retarded Richard" in a low voice. The entire class laughs, the teacher is doing their best not to crack a smile (but I can tell), and I am henceforth known as "Retarded Richard" until graduation and beyond.
Adverbs, adjectives, verbs... prepositions! I'm in a living nightmare. There is no waking up from this. I am, forever, "Retarded Richard"
Why your screenshot looks more beautiful than usual greentexts?
edit: is it a custom font?
They used an AI upscaler to enhance the details
Zoomed in before screenshotting
This actually happened, btw
...Richard?
a 9 yo kid getting a week suspension at the start of the school year simply and only because he called himself ~~redacted~~.. idts
(it filters the word here)
Yeah I was there in the room I was the teacher
I’m the principal that sent him home for a week for being way too fucking cool for school.
That's dumb dick to his friends
crummy cock to his acquaintances
As an outsider, it's wild to me that you can/could get suspended from school so easily.
You can't.
I'm concerned but someone must tell you: Greentexts are not real stories
I know they are unverified stories. But I have spent a decent amount of time in the US and everyone I know personally have a similar story of someone being suspended for something stupid.
This is simply a catalyst for those memories of mine.
The schools I as at growing up you wouldn't have gotten this as a punishment until like your 10th strike. You'd get increasingly severe suspensions. One to five days in school suspension then one to five days out of school suspension. Then you got expelled. It's possible OP doesn't remember correctly how long they were suspended. It's also possible this post is a lie, but I'm being generous.
I wonder what Zelda came up with for that introduction
"Xylophone Zelda". Really fucked over Xenias introduction
Uh, xylophone doesn't start with Z, back to kindergarten until you learn your letters.
Gotta be xenophobic Xenia now, sorry, I don't make the rules
depending how she's feeling, zany, zen or zealous?
Or zonked, if she smoked a fat dart beforehand
Zesty ofc
Zazzy
They called him Rich-tard for short.
But he got the last laugh when rich 'tards ruled the country.
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