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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
