How King of the Hill ROASTED The US Education System

[@geardog24]

*"A youngster with a tool in both hands has no hands left to do drugs."* Truly inspiring 🥲

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

@@ocelotlesbian Iggy the asshole with a heart of gold dog from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

"My name is Giorno Giovana and I approve of this message"

[@jonbrewer297]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@EtamirTheDemiDeer]

_grows a 2nd pair of arms_

[@UsedNapkin3115]

@@ocelotlesbian It’s Iggy from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Iggy is specifically from the third part of the show, which is JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.

[@silence_dais]

I like to think that after King of the Hill ended, Hank decides to retire from propane, but realizing how much he hates not working goes back to being a shop teacher. Like full on teacher, not a substitute.

[@HankageHill]

i accept this king of the hill headcanon as my own, thank you

[@CoalEater_Elli]

@@HankageHill same

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

I thought him and Peggy spent the rest of their lives traveling the country

[@Camcavs]

I would agree if Buck was the same age as hank or if Buck was hell-bent on giving it to his son which probably would have drove Hank away or if Miss Liz died first but most likely buck would die and give Strickland to Hank or miss liz owns it but hank still runs Strickland propane.

[@chrishinton9209]

I’d like to believe that Buck leaves Strickland Propane to Hank in his will.

[@JX2Stained]

School isn't even about learning anymore, school taught us that we don't need to learn but just pass.

[@Zacman1123]

This is true

[@loeandbehold4808]

Exactly

[@Quinntus79]

Honestly, the original intention of public schooling was to get people prepared for factory jobs. You're conditioned to come in at the bell, do busy work that is a mindless repetive task, eat your scheduled lunch, and leave at the bell. It worked during the 19th and 20th century because manufacturing was a major part of the US economy. That's not so much the case anymore.

[@Dragonmoon98]

Oh, you do learn some things. -It's better to become a victim than to hurt someone's feelings -If it looks dangerous, it's a weapon -Marijuana is as bad as crack -Sit still, and look busy -Any color outside black and white are gang colors -You won't have a calculator with you every day -You'll always be spending an hour estimating the price of a dollar store drink -This lesson that may or may not apply in life is more important than not getting a urinary tract infection -You *will* go to college, or you will go nowhere And, much more...

[@cthulhu7156]

@@Dragonmoon98 I feel like it's not only the US suffering from this really, if anything, countries like Denmark got it somewhat figured out when it comes to making schools... Tolerable. Also, kind of annoying how you're constantly told "go to college or become the janitor".

[@geardog24]

Hank roasted the education system like a steak on a propane grill, I tell you what.

[@trevoncowen9198]

geardog24 that’s a clean burning grill I tell you what

[@mrsheep8455]

Hwat

[@MICHAEL-ew4gg]

I tell you what!!!

[@Squat2P]

I read it in Hank's voice I tell you hwat

[@AxtonTheObstagoon]

@@Squat2P i'm reading this comment and all of its replies, including this one, in Hank Hill's voice, i tell you hwat

[@KanaHyoshi]

When I was in 5th grade, I would get so bored with my homework that I would draw in the margins of my notebook. Instead of just telling me to stop, my teacher said she could tell my drawings had stories and told me I should make stories so I can draw on the next page. So I tried writing short stories just to doodle for school work. At first, my stories were cringy, strange, and I only used my name or my brother's name for characters. But then I found I liked writing songs. Then I started writing poetry. That teacher was probably just trying to help me find a compromise to let me draw in my school notebook, but she inspired me to become a writer. I never had another teacher like her.

[@perfect149]

So touching. I admire those kind of teachers.

[@mekannatarry1929]

It's sad, when I'm learning more about various concepts regarding life, academics, and the like AFTER primary school, more than anything I was "taught" in high school. The basics are obvious, reading, writing and arithmetic, but by graduation I still had no idea who I was, wanted to be, or what to do.

[@Dragonmoon98]

And yet, they expect us to know what we want to do with the rest of our lives!

[@sarahbarabe8470]

@@Dragonmoon98 and you are deemed as a failure if you for some reason don't know what you want to do for the rest of your life at 18

[@matthew8153]

@@Dragonmoon98 And yet the voting age is 18

[@mkscorp9152]

Same, I'm still in high school and idk what I wanna do

[@majamystic256]

i feel like learned over 90% percent of what i know after high school was over because of the internet, the internet is a better teacher than the schools these days

[@XarmenKarshov]

US schooling is a joke entirely. I lost an entire semester of tuition because the staff and faculty didn't care. I went all the way to the chancellor of my school and nothing was ever done. The head of my degree literally prevented us from getting above a C in his class, hurting out GPA no matter what, even if we got A's in the rest of our classes, and they never investigated him. When a TEACHER can hurt your GPA for their own purpose and get away with it, you know it's bad. I took no credit for all of the classes because I had three teachers doing things like this. None of them punished.

[@NewPaulActs17]

they possibly were tenured. lots of red tape to fire

[@XarmenKarshov]

​@@NewPaulActs17 The issue is, we had someone who was supposed to be my advisor trying to sort these issues out. They were unable to get any response from anyone involved. That would be marked as incompetence or refusal to do their jobs. Tenure doesn't protect against this, or allow professors to change the entire grading system like they did, at the school I was at, as stated by the chancellor herself when I was able to talk with her. I'm pretty sure they only spoke with me to act like they were doing something. They had one of their own employees saying these people were unreachable on top of my discussion. That should be a red flag to the school that something is up.

[@Jarod-sm5rf]

You can sue them.

[@XarmenKarshov]

@@Jarod-sm5rf Yeah, I could, but they have actual lawyers who will wiggle their way out of it. They already did it once, I'm not going to put past them to do it again. Not to mention I can't afford to sue them since you have to pay to start the case.

[@exosluckyone]

this semester i have a professor who is completely insensitive to our struggles during a pandemic. she doesnt let us turn in work a minute late and gives us oral tests with 20 sec time limits even though english might not be our 1st language or we talk slow (i talked too slow and got half points) she even gets an attitude with the special needs kid every time he speaks in class. this is the 1st time I have got lower than a B in an art focused class. us education is cursed and the fact that we have to pay for it is horrible

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Zero tolerance in a nutshell *kid being beaten and laying down taking his licks* Principal: Yup you're suspended for fighting

[@DJKennedy90]

To the victim, specifically. Yeah, the bully is also getting punished, but the one who never threw a punch also gets it because "they could have walked away, and were thus participating in the fight."

[@palblue]

I’m sorry but thats messed up

[@DJKennedy90]

@@palblue That's the broken Zero Tolerance Policy for you. People hated it, but didn't want to put in the work to find something better.

[@laurencefraser]

@@DJKennedy90 oddly, here, (not the USA), in highschool, one kid was getting harased pretty badly, I forget the details as it was about 15 years ago now, got hold of one of the teachers and was told that unless it happened right in front of said teacher they couldn't do anything, and even then couldn't do much unless things escalated (and the gap between "do nothing" and "call the cops" is smaller than you'd think). Of course, said teacher also told the kid, (making it clear that this was entirely unofficial advice) that if it kept being a issue the kid should take a swing at the person harassing them. Sure, the kid would get in trouble, but the bully Probably would too, and either way the harassment would almost certainly Actually Stop (turns out most people don't much like getting hit :p) Of course, we didn't exactly have zero tolerance policies about that sort of thing... And the school system here wasn't so keen on suspensions, let alone expulsions, if they could come up with alternatives.

[@savannahs.5874]

Senior year a boy slapped me so hard across the face i had a red mark in the shaoe of his hand so ofcourse i go to the guidance office and they basically tell me "Well if you didnt anger him then he wouldnt have hit you" for context i was in the band locker room and a group of girls were talking about pink tax and how its dumb, i forgot what exactly what the guy said but it was along the lines that women need to pay more to be kept in check so i called him a retard. But ohhhh noooo because i have angered a big strong man a small wench like me must be punished.

[@raynightshade8317]

Main problem i have with our education is ive went though it and don't feel like i learned anything useful for the most part

[@hobbyistfairy1712]

Neither do I actually my learning most of it came from my mother taking me to the public libary I learn more from google and reading library books then I did when I was in middle school and high school

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Don't worry you two aren't alone

[@michaelturner2523]

You might not have learned anything *practical* but it's very useful just being a generally knowledgeable person.

[@noriii]

@@michaelturner2523 woohoo.

[@supersmilyface1]

I feel like after or during middle school, education should start to branch off based on what career you want, and if you haven't figured it out yet they give you choices for topics you might be interested in. (This is coming from someone taking AP Calculus, yet wanting to get into animation as a career.)

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Yeah, our education system is a laughing stock

[@BBWahoo]

It's so bad for some people it's not even funny now :( I wonder what it's like for people doing HS through zoom and such.

[@quaydon]

@@BBWahoo it’s terrible, in the last 2 months I feel like I’ve been getting dumber and not learning anything. In honesty I was gonna drop out until so I can finish my senior year next year when we could possibly be back in school but my mom said that’s dumb

[@joefrew1614]

But not as big of a laughing stock than Peggy Hill! 😂

[@BBWahoo]

@@quaydon It doesn't matter if she thinks it's dumb, if it's not helping you, it's not helping you. Do what gives you peace of mind and prioritizes your mental wellbeing instead. Trust that gutty feeling!! If you were good before definitely stick with that, it's always what works for you!

[@Cheesehead302]

@@quaydon I've been taking my first fully online course in college this semester, and it can be just as lame as I thought it would be. I'm still making good grades, but without having an actual teacher in the classroom it's kind of impossible for me to learn anything. It's also incredibly annoying keeping up with what you're supposed to be turning in.

[@Aufheben1770]

“Peggy hit the ground without even opening her parachute due to a malfunction” “Unfortunately, she survived” This is the most true thing anyone has said

[@samuelbutton7185]

Not even God can keep her down for long

[@JamesJJSMilton]

@@samuelbutton7185 Not for lack of trying.

[@thatdumbass9856]

@@JamesJJSMilton I'm trying my best

[@adamhinshaw1747]

Ever notice how he landed face down, but they found her she was face up? 🤔

[@Ciara1594]

​@@adamhinshaw1747 I've always wondered about that myself. Gotta love the "Unfortunately, she survived." 😂

[@jaxthewolf4572]

School was especially hell to me because I have ADD, I couldn't keep up with other students, deemed an idiot and constantly punished by my abusive grandmother, bullied by peers and misunderstood by teachers. I didn't learn that I had ADD til years later, after I dropped out. My bad grades meant I was stupid according to everyone. I believed that for a while, now I believe it's BS. I feel personally school isn't there to help you, it's there to control you. And intelligence is not measured by grades, grades is just nothing but how much you memorized which is not the same as learning.

[@OtterTreySSArmy]

School was hell for me with ADD for the exact opposite reason. I always did amazing on tests and got straight A's for my whole life and then I had like two classes my senior year that were actually hard and because I always did amazing I had to actually study and I had no idea how to do that. And I had to take really hard classes in order to keep myself out of trouble from being bored. It only got worse in college where I got into a prestigious university in a nuclear engineering program and realized I had no idea how to study and had to drop out. ADD fucks you up.

[@annaconigliaro2907]

School is hell when mental illness is in the convo

[@calebreynolds9183]

I had the opposite problem. Severe ADD and high functioning Aspie here. I could memorize at the drop of a hat, unintentionally....I do it every waking hour of every day. It’s hell. I also have dyscalculia. Didn’t know until I would attempt precalc and calc, but the more complex the math is- the more and more aggressive of a migraine I get until I’m seeing spots. I made it one semester in college and am now dirt fucking poor. Yet on paper, I excelled at school and should be a fucking doctor or something along those lines instead of a stay at home dad who feels extreme physical discomfort if I look at numbers. Being from BFE Kentucky also means I have no mental health care either. If only there was some institution that I was in for a majority of my life, that I was with more than my own parents, which could use education tools and relationships with authority and health officials to diagnose mental health conditions and learning disabilities early in life so that treatment can occur before the brain gets too far damaged.

[@calebreynolds9183]

@@OtterTreySSArmy I feel for you, brother. I’m 23 now, I think, I don’t know I stopped paying attention after 21, and I am hanging onto life by a thread. Without my wife and son, I would have likely killed myself from substance abuse (opioids slowed my brain down, causing me TO CRAVE THEM) or I would have just shot myself. I still feel that encompassing darkness sweep over me from time to time but I can fight it off for my loved ones. When it comes to myself I could care less. My son may have Aspergers and/or ADD. Finding that out made me lay in the floor and have a complete mental break. I don’t want him to go through what I did- and I will make sure he doesn’t. Even if it bankrupts our family into abject poverty, his mental health is more important than my comfort. I just wish my family had cared about me like that.

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

School with autism is even worse. Faculty don't understand the concept of a child having their own special interests. No help is offered. If I could slap my old teachers in the face I would.

[@NekoYuki]

School never really taught us HOW to think, only tried to teach us WHAT to think. And that's a serious problem. Critical thinking skills are mandatory for the betterment of our society, but that tends to be discouraged in schools, rather than encouraged.

[@shaynemaskall6984]

What animae character is your profile picture?

[@KuroKumo96]

@@shaynemaskall6984 it’s Rozalin from disgaea 4

[@NekoYuki]

@@KuroKumo96 actually disgaea 2. She was a guest character in 3, 4, d2, and 5.

[@KuroKumo96]

@@NekoYuki oh yeah that’s right I just remember seeing her in disgaea 4 yesterday

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

Schools are basically slave factories

[@MM-xn6tn]

Personally, the best roasting of the American Education System was from the episode, "No Bobby Left Behind." Specifically, these lines. "My boy's flunking out, and you're just making excuses." "Carl, the government doesn't care if your kids pass their classes, they only care if they pass the yearly standardized tests, which they haven't done in two years." "I've been a principal half my life. I'm not qualified to do anything else." And, of course, *UNIDENTIFIED SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD*

[@Somewhat-Sinister]

Don't forget the episode where Bobby got hyper from a little bit of extra cereal and their first reaction was to give him A.D.D. meds💀

[@brianpacheco9606]

“We don’t have the budget to afford any of these materials like wood” my favorite quote in all of king of the hill

[@glitchydood1558]

Ur 100 like

[@mrwess1927]

Its not like it grows on trees.

[@TheDragonfriday]

Wood don't grow on trees, you must be crazy! So expensive I say!

[@j.c.2240]

Even though it would be very easy to get it. There's reclaimed wood, cheap woods, ply wood, hell some Lumber mills would be more than happy to donate a small amount to a school

[@Warriorbob-im5py]

Fancy teaching aids. Like wood.

[@wilsonkierankitsune]

School was and still is a nightmare to me. I'm not in school I mean it's a literal nightmare I have every so often that wakes me up in the middle of the night. I dropped out of tech school after half a year because I was in a program that was forced to take most of the lessons downtown and I wasn't ready. I've never gone back to school in over a decade and I'll probably be stuck in retail the rest of my life...

[@dangerguy32]

You absolutely do _not_ need to go to school to get out of retail, thats just the advertised conventional method

[@jaxthewolf4572]

You're not alone, trust me

[@wilsonkierankitsune]

@@jaxthewolf4572 I had that nightmare again last night, being forced to go back to high school at my current age. I distinctly remember hearing myself, in the dream, scream "the problem is that I'm back in high school and I'm God damn 31 years old!"

[@tgrady2570]

I have nightmares about having to take finals for classes I've skipped all semester...even if I've never taken those classes

[@thewewguy8t88]

yeah sort of how i feel too. school was also a nightmare and infact i do think in some ways because of how school was i suffered a bit of ptsd. like not kidding but i do think i may have a bit of that from school. granted i also think it was because i was an extremely frustrated kid but yeah i do think school among other things causes a lot of issues for me as a kid.

[@The_NJG]

Our EDU system should always be roasted.

[@Xo-3130]

Mainly because its kind of outdated and everyone can't agree on hoe to reform it because they see a tool yo one up each other.

[@Karmy.]

@@Xo-3130 what?

[@Xo-3130]

@@Karmy. technically our education system hasn't changed much since the 50s-60s and every major attempt at fixing it keeps getting stopped by the fact that politicians see it as tool for their own party and agenda over the growing necessity of a changing world.

[@Karmy.]

@@Xo-3130 oh okay I finally understand your first comment lmao Was struggling due to the typos

[@Mimblesthefan]

The amount of comments to replies speaks the truth here. Some programs are really good in reality. Some are very bad. I dont understand why we don't have universal education throughout these days.

[@Gio90210.]

One of my biggest problems with the school system is grading. Whenever you miss an assignment it makes more of a difference than if you actually did it. Seriously, it feels like I could do 4 assignments but miss one normal one and go from a B to a D.

[@pokemonfanj]

Yeah they don't have it be a missing assignment (0%) makes an A(100%) exual to a C(middle grade) instead they have everything from 0%-51% be an F so a missing assignment effects your grade more then a perfectly done assignment

[@Av1t3o]

in my school we never had d's or f's we just had a, b, c, and no credit or nc

[@michellewarns1330]

When I was in school, they had these books that told the teachers how to take care of disabled students. The problem was, they were written in the 70's (back when they thought that seizures didn't count) and I was their first student with Epilepsy. The teachers and counselors were scared of me, but since they couldn't expel me they put me in special ed. instead. I didn't get to learn that much, but it didn't stop me from studying Biology behind people's backs.

[@mikeshmit1363]

hey at least you wanted to study

[@erichuizar5881]

When I graduate high school I won’t know how to get a job, how to pay taxes, or whatever the hell else you’re supposed to do to have a decent life. But at least I’ll know how to solve a quadratic equation using five different methods, I am sure I’ll be using that a lot.

[@kanevivi]

Our teache red s tried to warn us about alot of that and even went into some of it in lessons. Also pushed us to try and not be silent. They wanted us to be engaged in topics. Reason my history teacher and I used to argue during voting times.

[@KuroKumo96]

Where are your parents?

[@erichuizar5881]

@@KuroKumo96 while this is a valid point, it still doesn’t take away from the fact that instead of teaching me crap I’m never going to use, school should be trying to educate me about useful things to know in life like the things I mentioned above. And if they’re not gonna do that, I would appreciate if they took the effort to make learning not seem so terrible. All the BS that we have to go through to graduate is the reason for why I don’t even put effort into actually learning anymore, I just do enough work so that I am passing my classes. I have long since given up retaining any information from them.

[@daytonaofcv6856]

@@erichuizar5881 try a vocational class at a JC that was the only school I ever liked, and learned anything at. I did have 2 really good teachers though. I'm a Machinist.

[@cesaroliveira1982]

That's assuming you wil still remember it after 2 months of leaving school

[@yoda908]

King of the hill was a rare show that actually related to real life as opposed to made up situations. While I agree that the education system only cares about the funding; there are some schools and teachers find ways around the funding they get as well as they love their job to the point they go beyond the book. I had a history teacher once that told us point blank that he's teaching history not found in the books and we will all come up with fundraisers such as class field trips to the Washington Smithsonian museums.

[@aregularperson7453]

Honsestly, i have had a shit ton of teachers who actually made the subjects they were teaching atleast engaging enough for me to feel like i actually _cared_ about getting a good grade. Then along came high school.

[@kanevivi]

Ours did teach from the book to a point, but we had debates, we didnt just have the book to rely on, and we even got to go to some civil war sites for feildtrips due to his and our english teacher being huge civil war buffs for our area.

[@crowqueenamps]

For me, most of the teachers cared. Our school was just piss poor and the state was pressuring them for good EOCs and state tests. Which sucked. And for my current college, the professors I have at least pretend to care if they don't. I feel like it's the states pressuring schools to do shit that doesn't matter in the end.

[@yoda908]

One teacher I did have in high school also told me and the rest of the class is while he can't stop anyone from protesting; make sure we know the whole history and facts not found in books 1st in order to have a solid ground to discuss our message. Meaning go beyond the media and go to museums and ask questions. Don't be afraid to learn from mistakes from history. One way society can learn true empathy for all cultures.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Ive been a history nerd since i can remember finding a book about dday and my teacher at the time came over and encouraged me to keep up my interest in history and ww2 and i did i soaked up as much interesting history stuff i could, ironically my 6th grade english teacher who was making us watch a documentary about the holocaust, and him being somewhat dogmatic about how real and serious it all was, and anne frank and a section at the end got me questioning everything i knew about the war and my 11th grade history teacher, who said fuck it to student loans and got her doctorate in history, took us to the dallas book depository and i went and i got to stand in both of the exact spots jfk was shot and that got me critically thinking about how fucked america has been since he got taken out

[@matthewryan3798]

The point of a public school system in a non-UK context is to instill obedience in children, not to educate them. So if you were very obedient in school, but forgot what was taught or never learned much, the system did what it was intended to do.

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

Basically what happened to me

[@DeweyDecimal357]

Prussia knew what it was doing.

[@maddymooo]

I guess it failed me. XD

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Is too much obedience bad?

[@maddymooo]

@@SlapstickGenius23 It can be. Obedience is a good trait when used in moderation. However, too much can lead to a person not sticking up for themselves which could get them into bad situations. Just my thoughts.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Roasted it with facts and logic, baby

[@theshamanite]

Never change, Kim Jong-un

[@jacobharrison2425]

Thanks Kim jong-un

[@SoldierMan755]

Why the heck can't we have YOU teach us °^° damn Americans

[@crypastesomemore8348]

Except it didn’t

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

@@crypastesomemore8348 That may be true, but the sentiment is very agreeable IMO.

[@Slender_Man_186]

First day, my freshman year, at the end of the day I saw a dead cockroach at the bottom of the main stairway. It told me how the next 4 years were gonna go. For many years, it was the worst school in the state, and the only reason it’s not anymore is because more schools were built that are somehow worse. Oh yeah, *and I live in West Virginia.* Update: saw a dead frog just outside of the “library” (it’s basically become the senior’s lunch room).

[@tophatcat9996]

Your high school has STAIRS???

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@tophatcat9996 like I said, West Virginia, you either build around and into the mountains, or you don’t build at all. With how fucky the geography is around here, the school pretty much had to be made as a campus. Don’t be confused, it is a complete shithole.

[@oneveryboredhuman7777]

I feel ya. The wv education system is an absolute joke! When we were in elementary school, both my sister and I had learning trouble. Did either of us get any kind of help? Nope! My sister was repeatedly told BY THE TEACHERS she was retarded and too stupid to learn. She's dyslexic not stupid. As for me, I had trouble with math. Any attempt to do better on my part was met with sarcasm or me being yelled at because I genuinely didn't under the material being taught, which resulted in me crying and then being yelled at for crying. The result of that treatment? My sister became very quiet and withdrawn, meanwhile I became a hellion and gave my school as much trouble as possible. Thankfully our parents yanked us out of that hell hole and homeschooled us once they found out what was happening.

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@oneveryboredhuman7777 My second grade teacher said that I should’ve been put on ADHD meds for, get this, shuffling my fucking feet under the desk. Then there’s last year. So some kid asked me out of the blue “how long is your hit list.” I gave a smart ass answer, “as long as my arm.” I was then asked who was on it, and I said “my ex,” didn’t give any names, there were about 5 people I could’ve been referring too at the time. God knows how long later, I’m suddenly pulled out of my second period, and they’re saying that I “said something about a bomb and the pep rally.” They basically fucking interrogated me, threatened expulsion with no proof, and they’re story didn’t even make a lick of sense. They said that they first heard about a shooting, so which is it? There only “evidence” were three conflicting statements from kids that I don’t even fucking know, aside from vaguely knowing one of their names. They also broke a shit ton of their own code, violated my right to due process, and they also got their asses sued.

[@oneveryboredhuman7777]

@@Slender_Man_186 good grief. Crap like that is why I'm glad we got pulled from public school. Neverminding most of the buildings ought to be condemned. I remember ages ago when a tile on the ceiling of the local middle school fell off and cracked the skull of a girl that was under it. You would think that would be enough to get the place condemned but no. No you keep the decaying middle school open for another 5 years or so

[@wilsonkierankitsune]

Also I really hate the hall monitor who looks like a knock off of Dorothy Ann from MAgic School Bus

[@robtheoutsider]

I knew Emily looked familiar

[@OtterloopB]

According to my research, you might be on to something with that comparison.

[@wilsonkierankitsune]

@@ocelotlesbian the "at my old school" girl was Phoebe. Dorothy Ann was the "according to my research" girl

[@knowledgeseeker4614]

That might have been intentional.

[@EtamirTheDemiDeer]

Arothy Dann

[@sirblankface7607]

Alpha Jay pulling a Grunkle Stan with his subliminal advertising. "BUY MY POSTERS, BUY MY POSTERS!"

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

100th like

[@demetriuscolburn252]

*Superliminal advertising Simpsons reference

[@Demolitiondude]

The fallacy of zero tolerance is the failure to recognize intent instead of what someone has. The tools don't just get up and attack people, it's the person's intent to harm. That is clearly shown here. Hank and his class knows how to use tools properly and in appropriate situations. Moss however is operating on the letter of zero tolerance. If the meeting at the end of the episode was a PTA meeting instead of a substitute teacher of the year award, we've could have seen Hank defend shop class with a speech how shop class has not only inspired students to learn, learning real world applications for those skills, and the beginnings of major repairs that are desperately needed for the school. Of course the parents would vote to keep the zero tolerance policy in place. But some of the parents after the meeting would have asked Hank if he could tutor the kids after school or even see if he could do a summer camp for shop, seeing the wisdom of Hank's speech.

[@ntfoperative9432]

Thats what i thought. Anything can be a weapon, it all depends on intent to harm, and skill. A car can be a weapon, while a knife can be a tool

[@supergenius6256]

yeah like they allow you to keep your fists, pencils, staplers, and pretty much everything else..the schools think that the world is made out of pillows and Elmer's stick glue when sometimes a sharp or blunt object is needed for a job.

[@KairuHakubi]

it all boils down to responsibility being replaced with liability.

[@KairuHakubi]

@@supergenius6256 _the tools that already existed in the class, however few_

[@supergenius6256]

@@KairuHakubi anything can be a weapon really, even a grain of sand

[@Glipglorpblorp]

I feel like my creativity was killed most of my school life and by the time in highschool that I could finally take fun and creative classes there was nothing there. No imagination. I know part of it is growing up but it was just wrong. I lost any drive to do anything. For so long I was forced to do the same thing every single day and night. No variation or change. Really I've been doing what feels like the same set of subject since 5th grade. Math, science, history, and english. The only difference is a somewhat higher level and more tedious work taking up hours of my time.

[@supersmilyface1]

I've been experiencing this lately, but it's only just kicked in after the 2nd year of high school. Lately I've been doing some creative work every now and then (today I made some jewelry from stones and wire) to keep the creative flow going at least a little.

[@1dingerr]

It's sad because math and science are fields that actually allow for so much creativity and can be really engaging, but the are often taught in a format where it's so disconnected from the real world and it's more just memorization instead of application.

[@littenfire3563]

Dweeb. Nope you can still have imagination even as you grow up. That's just a stupid expectation from society

[@mgr_video_productions]

I know that feeling. It wasn't until in the middle of college years ago high school I was able to figure out what I was passionate about and wanted to do with my life

[@AshtheDragon-l4e]

It says something about the US education system when people on KZbin can teach stuff better and be more engaging than teachers. On top of that the education system doesn't give a shit about the student. Half way through high school I was sick for roughly a month, struggled to catch up with work due to teachers not giving me any time nor help to even do it. I ended up having other health problems come up plus stress and was on/off sick for the rest of my junior year, not a single time did they try to reach out to me to offer help nor were they willing to give it to me when I asked. End up leaving my school for online learning that I was able to do at my own pace and with actual learning.

[@ntfoperative9432]

At least my school mailed my work to me when i was out for about a month thanks to a nice cocktail of a stomach bug, a cold, and the flu putting me in bed for a while

[@supergenius6256]

yeah I find the education system pretty wack when you can learn history, english, and probably a foreign language if you just boot up a game and do some research about a topic you've heard from it. Tv shows and youtube can also educate well and just shows how incompetent the school system is.

[@Fxngsthatbite]

6:18 When Moss said that, it reminded me of when I went back to visit my old middle school and saw that one of the windows that broke when I was in 6th grade and one of the bathroom sinks that broke when I was in 8th still weren't fix

[@LtZerge]

My old middle school is ready to collapse. Most of the classes are done in Portables now, over a dozen spread out in the field behind the building. Then the district just finished building a new 'smart school' that cost an insane amount to load up on flashy tech and interior design, but obviously that was only for the wealthy neighborhood.

[@sweetloutstea1688]

My old highschool is bout ready to fucking fall over its just so sad

[@sanjidandelion]

I feel like learning outside of school isn't really a thing most kids don't do becuase of burn out from how uninteresting and un-engaging school is in America. No one really does anything to make lessons interesting, fun, or memorable so instead of learning the material its only memorized and forgoten rather than actually learned. The whole being talked at rather than being talked to, sit down and shut up mentality, or whatever you wanna call it is just not how most people learn.

[@Orsonfoe]

2 classes that are the best example of this are history and English. history was just names and dates. while English i was forced to learn why my opinion on a book is wrong and really one of the best i have ever read. oddly enough the cases was flipped on its head when i went to college. the history we went over and how it effects everything to become an important date or name. and English was more discussing what we read and what we thought of it. a huge plus was how the teachers help with other subjects. someone asks a question in history cause of art history and the history teacher answers and explains how the times could produce that kind of art or how politics affected it.

[@mkscorp9152]

Throughout the entirety of my middle school years, there was only one class if I recall, it was writing, we went outside so we could try to write a poem or something

[@ntfoperative9432]

@@Orsonfoe oh in my English they force us to write in MLA format, a format thats has been outdated for several years, and force us to look at "the deeper meaning" to every book we read, even if it was a book meant just for enjoyment

[@Orsonfoe]

@@ntfoperative9432 i think English is the worse half the time. got extra hate for it because of my nieces and nephews. a few of them were able to write beautiful cursive around 1-2 grade. But the teacher told them they couldn't and they would get in trouble. like they going to learn is it anyway and they're better at it so what the problem? one teacher side something along the lines of "it will upset the other children" . how, why?

[@mikeshmit1363]

ah that's my schools problem, they expect us to remember it

[@TBDF12]

The line about putting down tools to do drugs is hilarious that principle is a broken man. He clearly wanted to do good things for the school but was denied and he's seen so many stupid things he's given up.

[@darthlord1997]

I feel another episode that roasts the american education system, worth looking into, would be the episode where the school staff would rather put the underachieving kids in a special needs class then put in the extra effort to prepare them for the standardized test

[@jendoe9436]

Quite true, though I did find that episode ending really funny because they ended up not passing anyway 😂 Sort of a you should try, but waiting til the last minute won’t lend miracles sort of thing. A for effort at least. The other episode I like is when Peggy was teaching HS and had the football star that none of the teachers wanted to fail. She tried, in her obnoxious Peggy way, but I had to actually stand by her in that episode. And am always grateful that “I didn’t get exploded” 😂

[@annaconigliaro2907]

The problem is that the standardized tests only care about their way of thinking so if you answer a question as B+C=D vs C+B=D they will tell you, you are wrong because you're not exact. Doesn't matter if you arrive to the right answer a different way and got it right what matters to them is that it's not the same so it's wrong

[@Parcha64]

This was real in my high school. They put the lowest acheiving "teacher" in charge of the trouble makers and underacheivers. Nothing ever got done and everything was based on feelings

[@animefan2454]

Kinda like me I never did that and I was hauled off to the special Ed class. God I hate highschool with a passion.

[@EastofAll]

Moss: “Anything that can be used as a weapon is a weapon” If Ron Swanson and John Wick taught me anything, everything in school is a weapon

[@sunstriketacos]

Anything is a weapon like anyone is a Communist

[@supersmilyface1]

Even that vending machine in the hall is a weapon.

[@Jade-g6p]

Writing utensils, paper, computers, outlets, books, backpacks, lockers, binder clips, literally everything.

[@ToxicBlitzX3]

I don't remember King of the Hill having so many pandas And from what i have seen, both husband and wife working in the same school usually ends badly, but hey, props to anyone who can grade tests for a living (except Peggy), been there, done that, it drains your soul faster than an actual demon deal

[@Dragonmoon98]

Eh, the chilly dynamic is more attributed to the fact that one of them is Peggy Hill

[@ToxicBlitzX3]

@Luke Jameson a test of true love

[@FurryTycho]

To see the pandas you gotta buy the DLC

[@samuelbutton7185]

My current AP Lang & Comp teacher is married to my 10th grade Honors Eng teacher, they had a baby not too long ago. Maybe it all comes down to the subjects they teach? I dunno

[@onyxrose4349]

When I was in high school two math teachers were married. I had them both at different times. Seemed to work for them.

[@killerbeanmachine]

School is literally hell for the kids AND the people working there. My high school was basically a barn.

[@christinaify]

It’s really smart to have the students fix and clean stuff around their school. If you’re the one who fixed the door on the bathroom stall, you’re less likely to graffiti it. If you had to sweep the halls, you’ll probably walk the extra few steps to a trash can rather than throwing it on the floor. It’s a way to get them to feel like they’re really a part of something rather than just sent somewhere.

[@Zacman1123]

My school experience was so bad that I've blocked at least 6 years of my life.

[@kanevivi]

Only years I barely remember was the 6th and half way into 7th. Those I dont wish to revisit due to the sheer stupidity of the school then.

[@supersmilyface1]

@@kanevivi I don't remember much of 7th grade due to sleep deprivation. I stayed up too late (1-2 AM) and school started at around 7:20 (I woke up at 6:15). Afterwards, the rest of middle school and high school mixed together.

[@princessmarlena1359]

School was my “Vietnam”. **sad electric guitar music plays while helicopter rotors are heard faintly**

[@MythicalMimikyu]

"anything that can be used as a weapon, is a weapon" I Once Saw Him Kill Three Men In A Bar... With A Pencil

[@ntfoperative9432]

Ninjas: nervous breathing

[@Brandon-xc2pk]

anything can be a weapon if you try hard enough, so i guess students arent allowed to have arms and legs anymore

[@pokemonfanj]

@@Brandon-xc2pk or clothes or brains or anything

[@jacobhamilton2473]

I can't read that in anything but a Russian voice

[@ashleydavis8044]

You saying that kids will bring anything to school to hurt themselves made me think back when I was in kindergarten and 2nd grade. A kid stabbed a pencil thru the hand of the kid sitting next to me while in kinder and in a separate school, a kid stapled their hand to get out of class in 2nd grade. 😟

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Jesus christ.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

I once brought a switch blade to school without even knowing it because I forgot I put it there and the detectors didn't work.

[@LtZerge]

Aha, one of my old friends got bullied a lot and did eventually stab someone with a sharpened pencil. People still made fun of him after that, they just... kept their distance

[@sweetloutstea1688]

I used to hurt my self with the pencils darkest years of my life

[@DeweyDecimal357]

In 7th grade one of my classmates in art stabbed another girl in the hand with an exacto knife.

[@adriannaranjo4397]

Bully: *Constantly torments kid every single day and makes him miserable* School: _meh not our problem_ Kid: *fights back against bully* School: UNACCEPTABLE!! EXPULSION AND PERMANENT MARKS ON YOUR RECORD!!!

[@ViltrumiteIsRite99]

Dead fucking ass. While the bullies usually get away with their usual assault & trolling.

[@classicdoomguy3356]

@@ViltrumiteIsRite99 I once got assaulted by a wannabe gang in my school . They had weapons and severely hurt me , but I managed to grapple one of them sink my teeth into their shoulder . They didn't get in trouble but I got community service for 2 weeks and I was not allowed to recover from my injuries .

[@Jarod-sm5rf]

@@classicdoomguy3356 you can sue the school if you want.

[@NCC1371]

The one time I got into a fight someone was the last time. Senior year, I sat down for lunch one day and this kid kept badgering me so we started arguing and he brought my weight into the argument (I had joined the football team so I had lost 75 lbs at that point used to be almost 300). I’d been bullied all through middle school and high school for it and I decided no more. We had a standoff and my best friend (who happened to have fibromyalgia) stepped between us and told us both to calm down. I was so angry grabbed him by the collar and shoved him over the table and he landed on the other side of the table. When realized what I did it was too late and he was on the floor. The kid that wanted to fight me instantly backed off. I went over to help my friend up off the floor. I felt bad about it. In the end no one really got hurt. My friend had a couple bruises. I got a couple after school detentions. Nobody really made fun of me after that. I’m still friends with the friend I tossed over the table though. We laugh about it now.

[@scottlapier4797]

Yeah, that was my childhood.

[@BBWahoo]

I heard you're going through a rough patch and I sincerely hope you've gotten better or gotten help since then. You're easily the most level headed, down to earth, easygoing individual I've ever seen, not to mention this is from a cartoon community. You're really a posterchild for what a review channel should be about, and how to behave. You put so much effort to keep yourself spotless and I appreciate it intensely. I can't express how much of a special interest animation and interactive media as a whole have molded me as a person, and how I should present myself like the people I look up to, but most importantly, in the end, being true to myself and being true to you. I've been standing in the sidelines as a viewer, but I've kept you as a chapter of who I strive to be. I feel a warm respect for you, like a constant resolve, you're a pretty awesome dude. Thank you for what you do, I hope you are able to chew through the bamboos of life and nourish yourself on the melty goodness that is love and nourishment of the self, and the soul. Take care! -Cris.

[@jimmypackorino]

well said, agree 100%

[@BBWahoo]

@@jimmypackorino ty bb, I'm here to help heal and mend

[@lucillelovesnegan2144]

What happened?

[@stormwickham1675]

Let me say this: Ive went to vocational school to learn welding, that was never enough. I learned at the age of 18 how to disassemble an engine and re assemble it, brakes, tires, and more.

[@thepineappleyempireofsuper9612]

Alpha Jay: "Peggy is an incompetent teacher change my mind for 100 bucks" Me: "Peggy keeps her job BECAUSE she is incompetent and doesn't rock the boat like a good/competent teacher that gets pressured out, does. Therefore, Peggy is more competent because she is less competent than a competent teacher in king of the hill."

[@justinsinger2505]

ah the episode that made me absolute hate peggy.

[@nathalieduverna6963]

Are you sure??? There are many more

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Honestly this is a common phrase throught the series

[@jonbrewer297]

Most episodes. If it didn't make you hate Peggy, it made you hate Cotton or Strickland.

[@justinsinger2505]

I watched the series not in total order and randomly. I never really got fully into king of the hill till i was 18 so before that i always just caught the random episodes from adult swim. But i remember this one genuinely making me hate peggy.

[@richardsanchez9190]

Just this one?

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

I learned 90% of what I know in history after school

[@princessmarlena1359]

I learned geography from playing the Carmen Sandiego games and watching the shows.

[@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062]

@@princessmarlena1359 but tv rots the brain

[@princessmarlena1359]

@@phylippezimmermannpaquin2062 “I don’t have a brain, I identify as a starfish!”

[@pokemonfanj]

I learnt most stuff I know from youtube and TV

[@supergenius6256]

a lot of my knowledge in history and english came from examples from video games and tv shows, I researched everything I heard about, in school the information just passes through me because of how boring class can be

[@TheReapers520]

I am a high school chemistry and physics educator in the Education system and I figured I would throw my own 2 cents in for fun. As a teacher who has 3 separate subjects he teaches daily that grading mix up can happen, especially if the subjects are similar however, it's often mitigated by simply only ever working on one class at a time to avoid mistakes. Next off, yeah budget is a major factor in every decision a school makes, Public Schools are criminally underfunded as well as teachers barely having enough to pay the bills each month. Tie into this that the education system is super connected and that upsetting a major school board member can permanently ruin your career regardless of your position I do understand moss's hesitation. However, the major issue is educators are taken advantage of and just assumed that just because we have been able to function in the past that we would have no issues continuing that way in the future. Yes schools are places of learning however they also serve as a place where students not only make connections to help them later on in life, but also assist in their development as induvial on an emotional level. in some cases we provide stability or a constant escape for students even. quick one :The calling a teacher by the first name is actually a no no. Tons of research has shown that the title that comes with a teacher's name the mr, miss,mrs etc. helps students recognize that while we wish to help them and promote their growth, we are still an authority figure who demands respect. As such you are to minimize it as helps instill that separation without the use of fear or other damaging teaching method.

[@annaconigliaro2907]

I think the biggest problem in education is that it gives educators very little room on how to do things. Like teachers demand respect, as much as I respect teachers if the education system would let them do their jobs and teach then the whole respect thing would come in time. Teachers would be able to teach more passionately and students would be able to respect them much more because they are being authentically them. Plus high school should be a lot more like college. It makes learning more fun and teaches kids necessary responsibility.

[@ejakobs9881]

I agree with the person above. Personally, in college, the upper administration was what a lot of teachers complained about. I'm only a student, but this fact has stuck out to me because I've encountered it numerous times in a variety of ways. For example, the college I attended had a scandal with the upper admins blowing money on personal expenses like alcohol, fancy restaurants, and exotic hunting trips. It was briefly in our local paper, but for this I don't think anyone was ever actually held accountable, and this sort activity is more of a pattern than an outlier unfortunately. Additionally, upper admins also blow money on superficial campus things like fountains and statues no one asked for. My professors don't go on rants about this stuff in class or anything, but they drop the occasional comment on how corrupt and arbitrary upper admins can act at times. Regarding the former, in addition to our price tags going up, why are certain programs being cut when our funds have been so openly mismanaged? Regarding the latter, why are these disconnected managerials so imposing of their viewpoints and policy decisions downwards on the instructors when the instructors are the ones active in the field, so to speak, and by virtue of their position, more adequately equipped to identify what factors create better or worse learning environments, how to address problems and adapt to them on a practical level, and accurately discern the materials, resources, expenditures, or system changes needed to facilitate improving the process? I've had instructors who are genuinely passionate and sincere about their profession. Some of them I hold deep amount of respect for. It's gotta be such a headache employed in a system so over-centralized that it sometimes acts completely against the people within it who are doing the "real work" of it all. The routine dismissal of their opinions as if it improves anything is, as Hank Hill said, asinine.

[@annaconigliaro2907]

@@ejakobs9881 upper administration in my school is awesome but I know that's a minority. I go to community college so things are different but community college was the best decision by far. Education needs to be focus on practical things not the crap it currently is doing.

[@heatherswanson1664]

The title thing is also good to remind students and teachers of their boundaries. It's to avoid becoming too friedly with the student and getting into unethical territory.

[@jackiethomas6578]

Bleugh, I got suspended for defending myself and ended up going to a private christian school. Was nice and then I unenrolled from public school and graduated with a 3.4 gpa at 16

[@princessmarlena1359]

You got to leave at 16? Lucky. Under California law they force you to stay u til age 18. You can get your GED by taking the test no more than 2 months before your 18th birthday, and they mail it to you if you pass when you turn 18.

[@jonbrewer297]

Bunsen burners, scalpels, certain chemicals used in chemistry labs, white out, ranges, microwaves, knives, weights (We had a weight room.), compasses...

[@ACE1918]

"According to the school boards zero tolerance policy, anything that can be used as a weapon is a weapon" "Your pants could be used as a weapon, your pants are a weapon."

[@girlscanbedrummers5449]

I had both cognitive and social disabilities so I attended special education and speech therapy. Imagine my embarrassment when coming home and finding out that my little brother's 2nd grade math homework was the same worksheet that they had us do in highshool. 🤦 I still don't know shit about math or have perfect grammer so I am screwed and everytime I think of it in embarrassed. So whenever I get told I'm an idiot or get corrected by a grammar Nazi it hurts it's just not my fault. I hate the internet sometimes. 😒

[@lonely_dolphin8923]

It's not the internet nor is it your disabilities, humans just tend to suck. They will always find reasons to hate. At least on the internet they're easy to ignore by scrolling past or tabbing out.

[@Dragonmoon98]

Ah yes. "This person has cognitive disability? They aren't ready for anything!! *GIVE THEM THE MOST STUNTED EDUCATION WE CAN* "

[@Emperor_of_all_Badgers]

Unironically those grammer nazi's probably taught you more grammer than school ever did

[@tcbobb1613]

The same shit happened to me in high school in 9th grade I did very poorly on one of those special education tests. so I got a new case manager who was one of the headteachers of the self-contained classroom so I got forced to take classes in there, well I was taking Mainstream classes and doing ok to good in them. I have no behavior problems also I was doing the work in the mainstream classes. It was a fucking bullshit reason why I got put in there self-contained classroom. I learn absolutely jackshit in self-contained room classes it was a refresher for me of elementary classes and maybe some middle school classes.

[@nicklewis470]

My school experience was a solid 7/10 there is a good mix of really good and really bad teachers, and I noticed the AP classes I took had teachers that really really cared about what they taught and their students, and my normal classes had (not always but much more often) had teachers that literally just read from the book or something.

[@BugsyFoga]

I'm assuming they roasted it with Propane and Propane Accessories.

[@j.c.2240]

School boards are primarily focused on funding...

[@Painfully_Punny]

Peggy Hill is one of the worst characters I've ever seen, one of. There is an episode where she kidnaps a Mexican child because she refuses to just admit to herself or others that her fails art speaking Spanish, the one thing she has pride in substitute teaching. The fact that she's not in jail is surprising but her very core seems horrible and i don't see how anyone stays around her.

[@savannahs.5874]

Oh yeah i remember that episode, she got away with it in court because she said she was a pregnant horse in court or soemthing

[@Climson]

Lol yeah, It was a cringe ep.

[@jacobsanchez9815]

Personally I think the episode were hank finds out she cheated on them before their wedding was the worst thing she did.

[@noraunhappy]

@@jacobsanchez9815 wait I don’t remember that one? Are you talking about the one where he finds out she wasn’t a virgin when they got married?

[@jacobsanchez9815]

@@noraunhappy yeah

[@Steamroller-ot2gm]

Taught my middle school students game design and coding to where they made their own mario game(without mario maker) in a children's aid program(ended up helping 2 students out of suicidal depression), the next year our leadership changed and that person went out of the way to do everything by the education system rules and force me to do the same or else i would be fired, the students hated it, it wasnt fun for them, kids were leaving the program, and i ended up quitting. The program ended up closing down a few months later 😔

[@jennyknopps1291]

After that skydiving incident Peggy Hill became, "As bright as a black crayon".

[@tb3411]

^this Someone finally realized it

[@jayst]

The high school I went to was actually pretty awesome. I had amazing and caring teachers, and I learned so much that has actually helped me in my adult life. I know a lot of schools in the rest of the country may not have that, but I’m grateful I did. Not all Public Schools are bad.

[@sagedill5993]

Hank Hill would be the only Republican I would vote for as president he I know he would not be easily persuaded to corruption.

[@Xo-3130]

He's supposed to be a reflection of the typical Republican voter in the 90s and 2000s. What we know see as the Republican voter base can be chalked up due to how the early and mid 2010s being a time of slow economic growth, companies pivoting hard on the culture war, and the ease in which people can create political echochambers which when mixed together tend to radicalize people. Hence why ypu got so many neo-fascists obsessed eith the president, bad take spewing Anarchrists who have barely an idea how their ideology works, and these "Radical Liberals" who only seem to wear a cause as some kimd of trend.

[@jonbrewer297]

It would be better to say that the reason Trump won is this: The South loves some Trump. I'll spare the reasons why, we all know why. Nevertheless, Hillary tried to pursue the South, instead of that Democratic bastion... ...the industrial Midwest. Now these states have traditionally gone to Democrats for purely economic reasons. Unfortunately, Bill Clinton murdered the labor movement and impaled it in the Rose Garden.

[@Xo-3130]

@@jonbrewer297 You do realize that the bulk of the Republican core is the heartland of America that also produces both most of the food and raw materials right? Also, Republican support in the south was never that strong and mostly only is a thing people idiots keep pissing on the region.

[@UsedNapkin3115]

@@Xo-3130 As an Alabamian, I’ll have to say no to this one. There are very people that I know here that vote to the left, and even then, they are still pretty conservative. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the south is historically known for being very conservative.

[@Xo-3130]

@@UsedNapkin3115 Its religious and in America they almost are always the same (not always though). However, it's also were most of the African American community is in the states. Furthermore, religious Democrarts do surprisingly well seeing how they can still get into the senate from the south semi-reliably, something they can't do in the heartland. They don't last mainly because they keep getting too sweep up with the mainstream of the that keeps costing them. The same trap happens whenever a Republican manages to get a major win in the northeast or the west coast. They fall into getting sweep up with their party line and loses election. Modern politicians forget that their first loyalty should be to the people that got them elected and the party second. What America has is it backwards and such a thing only leads to a disgruntled electorate heavily suspectable to a wannabe dictator.

[@Tristown]

With Peggy as a teacher its no wonder our system fails.

[@jacklesc3133]

Graduating felt like leaving an abusive household tbh Once I left I realized how much it hurt me (in therapy now), and questioning how I got through it without setting the building on fire I know it sounds angsty but I just don’t know how else to describe how it feels

[@princessmarlena1359]

You’re not alone. I felt the same. So did my siblings.

[@AuthenticallyAwful]

A good teacher will make or break a class. A great teacher is exactly why I can effortlessly read almost any kind of map to this day since middle school. A great teacher is why I love history. But a few bad apples spoil the bunch.

[@ryeinc]

“Three votes for Lara Croft, whoever the heck that is...” YES! I’m glad to hear you love this episode too. This is a go-to for me when I do rewatches.

[@KairuHakubi]

I also love that she pronounced it like laura, something she would totally do.

[@KorporalKReephdmkiytrecv69]

I originally came from Ireland and the public school system in America sucks horribly. we weren't stuff much more faster in Ireland while in America we are just learning about useless things that we are never going to use.

[@espio329]

as a natrual born american, alot of shit taught in the american education system is indeed useless. Then you have kids fresh out of highschool and college with outdated information and them struggling to adjust.

[@BBWahoo]

Yeah, it got so bad for me I dropped out. I was always left BEHIND. The moment I turned to doing independent studies was the moment I finished high school and actually felt like an individual and not a cog. The American education system needs restructuring from the inside out, thankfully attitudes and philosophies are changing, but we still have a long way to go.

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

Having Hank Hill teach a shop class is almost perfect when you think about it. In such a class, he's basically the ideal teacher: hard working, extremely knowledgeable about the subject, and above all: Passionate. That last part is the best part seeing as a passionate teacher is what can have students listen the most, especially if they try to teach it in a way that gets students involved and to properly understand why the class is important and how rewarding it can be. I just wish more teachers were like this, since a teacher like Hank not only makes his students enjoy learning, but it makes the knowledge and wisdom that he's teaching them stick with them forever.

[@demonicdonte7892]

High school experience for me was rough. It was annoying in most areas and fine for others.

[@fizzizzsoda]

lol. I just watched an episode of King Of The Hill when this was uploaded

[@rahmspinat]

Ah, a person of culture!

[@Springtime562]

0:15 depends what part of school your talking about for me. Elementary school was fun and nice. 6 and 7 caused lifelong emotional problems. 8 and 9th was the best. 10 & 11 were okay. 12.... was pretty bipolar

[@mkscorp9152]

Bro same, I remember elementary being neat, moving on to middle and 6th felt fine, tho I think around 7th and 8th grade it got like less enjoyable, then I moved on to high school and enjoyed it more

[@Springtime562]

@@mkscorp9152 not kidding about the emotional damage. Ms.choi is the devil incarnate.

[@mkscorp9152]

@@Springtime562 yea some teachers can be like that

[@supersmilyface1]

For me I didn't mind Elementary school, 6th grade was okay, 7th was...I don't even remember 7th grade, 8th grade was okay, and then high school is currently the most emotionally exhausting one for me.

[@facebookuser1653]

7th was hellish for me. I do not remember any 8th grade because of quarantine. 9th is just very, very boring.

[@ComradeWolfman98]

School taught me that I don’t need to care but to pretend to care that as long as I pretend to care about my work I can get by, and that’s good enough

[@dinonuggets7148]

Child labor is, in fact, cheap

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Sick truth indeed!

[@brenski87]

What math should of taught me: Balance a budget How to invest Taxes Business But hey at least I know the equation of Pi

[@vulpixle9659]

Man principal moss is definitely one of the worst principal's in animation

[@mechajay3358]

"Unfortunately she's survived" Dang, AJ went full on Savage!

[@speedyeagle2.25]

Awesome video I’m glad you’re feeling better after the last video

[@toonaurz2620]

This is off topic but I've been watching a lot of "Disney's Recess".

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

"Hey, my mister monk monk"

[@ejakobs9881]

Recess is so damn good.

[@tomboyjessie1352]

Oh yeah I like that show

[@crystalgemgirl731]

It was hell, school was hell for me.

[@kingzod8536]

It is kinda still hell for me, 7th grade was good best year but since then just down hill, last year was the worst (9th grade blues). But this year it's ok not bad but human interaction kinda died so.

[@crystalgemgirl731]

@@kingzod8536 codolicie.

[@kingzod8536]

@@crystalgemgirl731 ?

[@crystalgemgirl731]

@@kingzod8536 Sorry, spelling isn't my forte.

[@kingzod8536]

@@crystalgemgirl731 it's ok my spelling is 50/50 sometimes to.

[@Grumpagamer]

My youngest son loved school until middle school. Then he just couldn’t wait to graduate and get away from it. He had some great teachers in elementary school. But by middle school it was boring and a grind to get through. Managed to get 1 year out of college out of him but that was a let down as well due to agenda pushing instead of educating.

[@The_AceEmpress]

When you see a video with the word ROASTED in all capital letters, you know it’s gonna be good...

[@spiritgate0444]

So in a nutshell every teacher should be like Hank hill.

[@pokemonfanj]

Yes

[@losstowin8288]

I went to this one school in West Virginia and the teachers there were amazing . They all seemed to take pride in their work . When I got caught caught doodling and writing in English while a guest speaker who was a author was in class instead of yelling or getting mad she pulled aside at the end of class so I could meet the guest . A part of the conversation was about what I was writing and how much I loved reading ...anyway about a week later I get pulled aside again and the teacher gives me a book by the author that was signed and had a publishers number . And in history me and this one kid got into a argument where things got a little heated instead of sending us to the principle the teacher had us do a mock court thing where we got to tell our side of the story ..we ended up apologizing to each other and becoming sort of friends .

[@princessmarlena1359]

West Virginia has better schools than West Gomorrah (California), and you guys spend less money on your schools than they do.

[@awesomeaggron5236]

I couldn't relate more when he stated calculus 2 or really calculus in general not being applicable to most day to day activities. I passed calc 2 by the skin of my teeth entered the final failing lol

[@supersmilyface1]

Th...There's a Calculus 2...?

[@awesomeaggron5236]

@@supersmilyface1 yes along with calculus 3 and differential equations.

[@theshrimp1657]

As a teacher Peggy was in the right to want to be referred to as Mrs. Hill. This is a formal environment and needs to be treated as such. As a substitute teacher She could also be written up for allowing this to happen because it skirts the boundaries of formal workplace and causal environment. Which is something you don’t want when working with children. Also you bring up great points about issues in education that I agree with.

[@juicebox7372]

My teachers don't seem to feel that way and it's uncomfortable because now I nearly know every teachers first name that I have

[@DJKennedy90]

No one said she was in the wrong for wanting to be referred to as Mrs. Hill. The issue is she was explicitly using Hank's name to gather sympathy votes from the majority of students who liked him; not off her own merit like she had before.

[@skooby_doobie_doonkann3334]

This was one of my favorite episodes. Hank as a shop teacher working with kids. So heartwarming

[@anthonyanderson3448]

One thing I love about this episode is that Hank didnt care about an award. He wanted the students to learn and that in itself is a great lesson that even adults need to learn.

[@olliegoria]

I’ve learned more off of KZbin and surfing Google than I did in all my school years

[@supersmilyface1]

Some fun facts: 1. Pineapples grow from a plant, which is what you see on the top of the pineapple. If you cut that part off and plant it you can grow a very small pineapple from it. 2. The way fish populate man-made ponds without humans introducing fish is from undigested eggs that water birds (like ducks and geese) ate at some point. The same happens with some seeds, allowing the plants to spread. 3. The best way to cut a pomegranate is to cut the skin off the top and make slices in the fruit depending on where the seed clusters meet. The shape of the part you need to cut off the top depends on the fruit's shape. This shape can be a square, pentagon, or hexagon in most cases. Then, slice down along the edge of the seed clusters where the corner of the part from the top are. You then can rip it into pieces kind of like an orange and carefully take out the seeds. 4. Peanuts aren't a true nut since they grow underground and not from a tree. 5. Rainbows are actually circles, but we normally only see half of the circle since we're on the ground. 6. Some moths pollinate flowers like butterflies, such as the hummingbird hawk moth, which has the colors of a bee. 7. Opal is made from silica and typically contain water. That water gives the rainbow 'fire' that various types of opal have. This water can evaporate and cause the 'flame' to disappear overtime which creates dead opal. 8. Diamond's aren't actually very rare and are overpriced since most of the supply is held back from the market because the sellers want to keep the price of diamonds high. 9. Carrots are actually not good for rabbits due to their sugar content. They can be given in small amounts as a treat every now and then, but not often. 10. Squirrels are the only animal that can eat buckeyes without any negative side effects.

[@HoundofOdin]

"However, on to less dark jokes . . ." This is how my family treats me every time I try to speak with them.

[@Snowywaterz]

I wish this show wasn't off adult swim, it was my childhood.

[@lovelydolltime8006]

Same. I remember watching this all the time when I was 7, feeling like a criminal.

[@chriscoughs5774]

Wait they took it off adult swim!?

[@NoMoreBots]

@@chriscoughs5774 Yeah, they lost the rights in 2018.

[@NCC1371]

Why adult swim? The show is certainly made for adults but I’d let my kid watch this with me before I’d let them watch any other adult cartoons.

[@manoftheusajones5147]

I drink PROPAIN.

[@artix548]

I believe that the point of zero tolerance is to mentally break children, to make them more subservient to and fearful of authority, and is always wielded against the kids that are naturally more non-comformist than the rest. Just think of why the actual bullies are punished less severely than the kid who breaks and fights back.

[@faeryb0mb]

i've learned more from deviantart, tv, cartoons, and coworkers than i have from school. school just taught me eloquent vocabulary and the usual core subjects

[@Icalasari]

I can think of somebody who would do an even worse job than Peggy at teaching Cotton Hill. He'd end up causing the school to get sued and himself arrested with how batshit he is Honourable Mention to Dale, but only if he specifically teaches something like politics or social studies But yeah, you kinda need to scrape the bottom of the barrel to outdo Peggy

[@NewPaulActs17]

does anybody speak boomhauer? that's my honorable mention

[@NCC1371]

He regale the kids with the tale of how he killed fifty men.

[@dwaynejpeterkin]

And bill he'll just turn the school to a mental institution

[@slipstreamxr3763]

@@NCC1371 Most kids would probably be fascinated with Cotton Hill's time serving in the Pacific Theater of WW2. Here in America WW2 history in schools consists of Pearl Harbor, Holocaust, D-Day, Fighting Hitler, Fighting the Japanese after Hitler killed himself and then Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened, and we won the end. Anything else that actually happened of note like the Japanese detention camps, The Navajo Code Talkers, North Africa, fighting in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia and the London Blitz are casually mentioned in American schools but not really touched upon.

[@kinglyone7172]

When I was in school I took woodshop, metal shop, and cooking as my home economics course. Both, my metal and woodshop courses were boring because all that I did was draw. When it came time to actually do something I was never allowed to use the tools in the class, but once, and even then it wasn't for something I drew. I put something together from scraps and made it work. I'm more hands on. I guess that's why I was able to do well in my cooking class. We were actually allowed to use the ovens! This was the late 80's going into the 90's. I remember because shortly after that, they basically stopped kids from using the tools and machinery and those were among the first programs to be cut. It seems even then no one had a problem with defunding education. Now we are living with the results.

[@StevenKluber]

Hank goes in, fixes things, gets screwed out of voting by a system that never wanted to change. Incompetent career substitute known for gaffes wins.

[@dillxdough]

Peggy is amazing. She was developed as a character so perfectly.

[@dynastylobster8957]

i have found that many useful skills I learn in school, I end up forgetting how to do.

[@RoninCatholic]

Peggy hits the ground because she failed to open her parachute due to a malfunction. _Unfortunately_ , she survives. I was very briefly in public school. In Kindergarten I got high grades but tended to be bullied a lot and was quick to break down crying when I was bullied; teachers assessed me as "emotionally immature" and asked I be made to repeat the kindergarten class I already academically excelled at. My parents said no, I was doing the classes right so I should advance. First grade, same thing only now instead of _just_ getting physically and emotionally bullied by older students in my class and others, I was _also_ being physically bullied by _smaller, younger_ students in Kindergarten and not reacting to this like a robot but instead crying. Once again, teachers said "Nathan is intelligent but emotionally immature, we should keep him in first grade another year." My parents said screw that, we'll teach him ourselves. So I was homeschooled from second grade until I graduated highschool. I excelled in some classes (science in particularly) and never got very far in some others (mathematics, never really advanced past 4th grade academically there no matter how much I tried but that's also about as much as I've ever needed to pay the bills and keep track of my taxes anyway). The biggest downside is probably that because my parents adjusted the way they taught me to match the way I learned as an individual, they never really thought of me as "learning disabled" or whatever, so it wasn't until I entered the workforce that people brought up the very likely chance (still clinically undiagnosed) of my having high functioning autism. The United States public education system is designed around the lowest common denominator of average male and average female learning and is really, really bad at accommodating anyone who learns _anything_ even a little quickly without being "all around advanced", gets bored when not challenged, learns from hands on experience better than rote memorization, etc. and has an even worse policy of generally _favoring and enabling_ bullying and harassment while giving lip service at best to fighting it.

[@michellewarns1330]

In elementary school, I was diagnosed with Epilepsy. The students made fun of me I wasn't allowed to play on the playground so recess wasn't fun. The school had these books that told the teachers/counselors how to take care of disabled students, but it was written in the 70's (back when seizures didn't really count). Since I was the first student they've ever had with Epilepsy, they were scared of me and were trying to expel me. In middle school it was pretty much the same thing, except teachers kicked me out of their rooms and put me into special ed. Because of that, my family started thinking that I was stupid. Yet, at least I studied Biology behind everyone's back.

[@cosmicdib4823]

I'm in school right now learning about components for something in Digital Tech and I've given up and started drawing. Honestly, why would I need to know how to make a lightbox? Also, I wish that Hank was my teacher.

[@joelmavity1467]

I wish I had more teachers like Hank. He was patient and did more for the students than any teacher in the show. Edit: Plus I love how Hank knows the cheers are for him and discreetly waves at the students without bursting Peggy’s self absorbed ego bubble.

[@Eric_1991]

“Unfortunately, she survived” 😂😂😂