Some people are just lovely
Just did a school debate that was very tiring, the kids (well, a few guys anyway) monopolized questions and it was all very chaotic. I'd never had to yell so much at a class so they woud calm down. It's not necessarily a bad thing, means what we're talking about interests them and makes them react, but it remains really tiring.
And as much as I try and often manage not to take what they say personally, after two hours like that, where some kids maintain that homosexuality is wrong/unnatural with a victorious grin on their face till the end, it's really hard to go down to the nurse who organized the debates and basically be told that you're a liar.
She accuses me of lying to her about our "aggrément ministériel" (ministerial approval), saying that I said we had it from the Education Nationale whereas it's not true. Which I fucking know because I'm the one supposed to write out the request for that approval. And I would never lie about something like this when I present the debates. What probably happened is that I said we were approved by the Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, which is true, and she heard "agrément" and "Ministère" and got confused, and that's all right - but that she would say right out that I'm a liar? I feel so insulted, because I would never lie about something like that and it's something I feel strongly about, and it really shakes me that she'd say that of me.
She also expressed not very nicely that she was disappointed that our debates weren't more about sexism. I explained that we never pretended to intervene specifically about sexism, that we mention sexism when we present the interventions because homophobia is, in our opinion, deeply rooted in sexism and the two notions are linked. Whatever, she wanted to hear about sexism, boys calling girls "slut" and stuff. Yeah well that's not us and don't get annoyed because we didn't do that. It pisses me off all the more that, a couple of months ago, I already spent like two hours with her (well first trying to find her because she couldn't give me the right address) talking about our debates and stuff, and I'm certain I never implied they're as much about sexism as they're about homophobia because I've presented those debates so many times for the past 7 months and again, I wouldn't lie about that.
And she made remarks about the way we handle the post-debate questionnaires, which is not a problem in itself but once more it's the way she expressed it, like gee you're really not doing this well.
Urgh. Makes you feel so great about what you're trying to achieve. Thank Joss the teacher was actually nice.
And as much as I try and often manage not to take what they say personally, after two hours like that, where some kids maintain that homosexuality is wrong/unnatural with a victorious grin on their face till the end, it's really hard to go down to the nurse who organized the debates and basically be told that you're a liar.
She accuses me of lying to her about our "aggrément ministériel" (ministerial approval), saying that I said we had it from the Education Nationale whereas it's not true. Which I fucking know because I'm the one supposed to write out the request for that approval. And I would never lie about something like this when I present the debates. What probably happened is that I said we were approved by the Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, which is true, and she heard "agrément" and "Ministère" and got confused, and that's all right - but that she would say right out that I'm a liar? I feel so insulted, because I would never lie about something like that and it's something I feel strongly about, and it really shakes me that she'd say that of me.
She also expressed not very nicely that she was disappointed that our debates weren't more about sexism. I explained that we never pretended to intervene specifically about sexism, that we mention sexism when we present the interventions because homophobia is, in our opinion, deeply rooted in sexism and the two notions are linked. Whatever, she wanted to hear about sexism, boys calling girls "slut" and stuff. Yeah well that's not us and don't get annoyed because we didn't do that. It pisses me off all the more that, a couple of months ago, I already spent like two hours with her (well first trying to find her because she couldn't give me the right address) talking about our debates and stuff, and I'm certain I never implied they're as much about sexism as they're about homophobia because I've presented those debates so many times for the past 7 months and again, I wouldn't lie about that.
And she made remarks about the way we handle the post-debate questionnaires, which is not a problem in itself but once more it's the way she expressed it, like gee you're really not doing this well.
Urgh. Makes you feel so great about what you're trying to achieve. Thank Joss the teacher was actually nice.