I’ve noticed over my short tenure here there are a few teachers on Lemmygrad. I’ve browsed the comm list before and haven’t found one specifically for teachers and people involved in educational systems.
Is there/should there be a comm like that?
I would love to have a place where educators could share resources, successes, and frustrations. I would not want it to devolve into an r/teachers hellhole. I have no idea no idea how to make one or even if that’s an option because of boomer brain. I’m not sure I want that responsibility either.
I’m slowly pivoting my career towards teaching, and it is looking promising. I’d love it if there was such a community, as I have no formal training in teaching and would enjoy observing (and maybe participating in) the discussion.
I think just due to it being hosted in Lemmygrad (or hexbear?) it’ll naturally avoid the typical subreddit issues.
I could help co-moderate, but fair warning: I tend to be blunt and low on patience on the internet, and as I said, I’m not particularly experienced.
Glad to have more class conscious people in the field. If you need any advice let me know.
Maybe a broader title that covers education in general would help people not to dox themselves. A community aimed at people of one profession may naturally begin to encourage people to reveal quite a bit of personal info. That should be worked avoided, ideally.
That’s a good idea. Making community guidance clear about self-doxing too. However I could imagine this might be difficult to moderate.
I don’t think the comm should be exclusively for educators either. Maybe the topic of education more broadly.
All I ask is that I can rant about how bad the NEA is, or atleast my experece with them was
Please, go off. The NEA is my favorite $700 magazine subscription.
If you want I can DM you a preview of one of my stories, I still need to finish writing my complaint letter to the board (of the state level), that I was requested to write by a few other people.
Neat. Sure I’ll read it. I have a fair amount of experience in writing stuff like that.
I’m not a teacher specifically, but I work in education, and wouldn’t mind seeing a comm like that. It would be nice to feel like some of the people I work with might be lurking here.
Lemmygrad and Hexbear are pretty small all things considered. It would be WILD if one of my colleagues even knew what Lemmy was.
