{"id":101915,"date":"2026-04-16T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101915"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:05:02","slug":"never-say-that-teachers-have-no-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/never-say-that-teachers-have-no-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Never say that teachers have no influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course, that influence isn’t always benign<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true, every halfway intelligent right winger I know irl had a massive conflict with at least one elementary teacher over things like: reading ahead, reading too difficult books, not showing enough work, etc etc. it\u2019s the first time we experience the uncaring tyranny of state bureaucracy and it sucks.<\/p>\n

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Of course, that influence isn’t always benign: It\u2019s true, every halfway intelligent right winger I know irl had a massive conflict with at least one elementary teacher over things like: reading ahead, reading too difficult books, not showing enough work, etc etc. it\u2019s the first time we experience the uncaring tyranny of state bureaucracy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8,79,13],"tags":[374,375,1020],"class_list":["post-101915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bureaucracy","category-education","category-usa","tag-children","tag-parents","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qvN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101923,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101915\/revisions\/101923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}