Contest 103! (Blog 573)

It’s time for another Matt-based teacher themed podcast summary, now let’s go! Soon after the show starts, Matt says ‘there is no boundaries’… (obviously referring to school, I think we all get the point, now). I hate to sound petty, but it’s ‘there ARE no boundaries’! Yes, I am fairly confident about that, but at the same time whenever someone says a mistake, part of me worries that I’M the problem and even worse, I fear I have to relearn at least some of the English language. Super annoying, so please don’t do that again. Matt later compares teaching children to taming tigers which will be offensive to some people, but not me as his grammar was spot on, there! ‘You really are a miserable animal, aren’t you?’ That’s something that was said to me after I suggested dying people should be allowed to do various illegal activities, as long as they don’t harm anyone, I thought I was bringing happiness. However, I think I’m a good blogger so I didn’t even mind the insult and I wouldn’t care about being called a tiger by Matt. He often says he’d like to quit teaching and if I had to train a class of tigers, I’d quit too. However, my main question would be ‘how come there are so many tigers in schools?’ Another podcaster complains how little teachers get paid and Matt points out that’s why Breaking Bad’s main character started making and dealing drugs, and that the felon’s behaviour was justified. Starting to get a little more out there now, but his sentences flowed beautifully. Call me amoral, but let’s see what else Matt has to say, I’m sure it’s good!

Matt says he works 17 hours a day doing various activities, some not related to school! I’m not even awake that many hours a day, so I’d have to work 2-3 hours in my sleep if I wanted to work as hard as he does. Not that I’d want to, it’s too dangerous with the tigers and all. Matt says that some students gaslight the teachers and gives one example in particular that stuck with me, even if fictitious. In the story, Matt said a student ate his desk and when the teacher told him not to, the child said ‘I didn’t do anything!’ I think that’s a rather extreme and in-your-face case of gaslighting, a more intelligent child would say something like… something like… well there are no excuses are there? I guess it’s the best gaslighting someone can do in that situation so fair enough, Matt. The child could say he was simply hungry but that’s a welfare issue and not something to discuss on a podcast. I wouldn’t even call the child something apparently vague like ‘Child A’. If someone described my mental health problems as a teenager and said stuff like ‘Child S thought he ruled the world with his thoughts’, many people out there would know that refers to me. Again, why not just avoid the topic completely? Matt also talks about a made up person ‘screaming about bumblebees that are hijacking the government’ and they’re the kind of people who sue schools. Wow, am I the kind of person who’d sue a school, then?? Remember to take your meds, Simon!

Wow, I’ve talked about mental health again, even though I said I’d try not to probably over a dozen times, now. I’m reminded of people in AA meetings who get told they’ll never get better, I just have a different problem that’s all. Argh! Matt reads a comment from a viewer saying ‘union are not’ and he corrects it by saying ‘union OR not’! Now there’s the risk of me saying things like ‘Wow, what pizza would I like today? Hawaiian are pepperoni…?’ Thanks whoever wrote the comment, thanks a lot. Matt doesn’t seem to hate the mistake quite as much as me, but well done for sorting it out. He reads another comment saying teaching is harder than working in a trauma room in a hospital. Another blow to teaching, another win for grammar. If the comment said something like ‘teaching badder than trauma stuff in hospitalz’ would you want such a person operating on you? As in ‘Oh no’. Matt says they play Mozart and Bach in 7 11s to keep drug addicts away. Being addicted to drugs is bad behaviour, isn’t it? I’m waiting for Matt to say they should play classical in music in school to tackle bad behaviour there, if so I’d agree with him! Calming stuff. You have to be careful though, it’s not crazy for rap songs to sample bits of classical music in their songs, so if classical-rap plays in the background of lessons and the lyrics describe killing other rappers, you’re back to square one.

Uh-oh, Matt reads a comment with the words ‘gonna’ and ‘wanna’ in, the former word appearing two times. Now my sense of spelling has to be questioned. After that, Matt says children are given no consequences and says that maybe kids should feel a little less safe in schools. Then he gives an evil laugh. A tiny bit controversial maybe, but his grammar accuracy so far has to be at least 99.9%, so I trust him. Wow, another comment goes on for a long time and doesn’t have a single comma. It’s a comment from a teacher! I hope she doesn’t teach comma usage. Maybe she teaches maths, if so, fine! Matt didn’t read the comment perfectly though, he did correct himself, so his reading gets a 99.9% as well! I have to be honest, I don’t read out loud as well as him. When I finished my book The Danger of Proverbs, I feared reading it at book singings because of my lack of skills. A book signing? Yeah, good luck with that. On the plus side though, I still won’t have to read it out aloud now as no one is interested! :D I often complain about A.I. taking over and ruining everything, but to be fair, I could use it to clone my voice and read from the book as I mouth along. Are you supposed to read whole books at book singings? Surely not. Even where to stop reading would be confusing, so if I stopped mouthing, A.I. would continue. Say the audience didn’t know I was faking, how creepy would it look when words leave my mouth when it’s closed? Books would probably get thrown at me in anger. Now the summary is over, check out the podcast below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWU4zxlYCyo