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[lookninjas]

This is not an exact quote, but:

"If you had a student come in with diabetes, would you give them insulin or would you tell them that was just how they were born?"

Dear whoever wrote this episode:

Thank you for that.

(Okay, fandom, start freaking out about the preview for next episode now.)

Comments

[heddychaa]

p. sure teachers aren't allowed to prescribe medication tho

[lookninjas]

No, but it's the metaphor. I appreciate the metaphor. That, you know, refusing meds for a chemical imbalance in the brain is not that dissimilar from refusing meds for a chemical imbalance elsewhere in the body.

(Also, IIRC, students aren't allowed to have meds or needles in most schools, and if McKinley still doesn't have a nurse, it wouldn't be that out of bounds to have Emma be the person who holds medication for students who need it.)

[heddychaa]

haha idk, I'm just shitting you, haven't seen tonight's ep yet

mind you, Glee totally fucking doesn't care about the ways high schools actually run in general, so nitpicking this is kind of pointless lol

[lookninjas]

To be fair, that's probably a very strange post out-of-context. "Will's giving insulin to students? What? What the fuck is this school doing?"

Hopefully without giving too much away (if you care; I don't actually know if you do or not), though, I have to say that Glee is kind of blowing my mind with the way they're handling mental illness right now. It's not perfect, not in the least little bit, but in a world where A Beautiful Mind is fucking acclaimed and celebrated, it's bizarre to see someone come this close to getting it right. Bizarre and kind of beautiful.

[heddychaa]

ahh I have to turn off my teacher-brain when I watch Glee, ever since Will just TOLD HIS WIFE the full name of a pregnant student and I was like "AHHH NOO NO NO NON ONO" I don't even tell my husband the first names of my kids, not even for generic shit like "Argh G was texting in class all day and it drove me crazy" I would never ever ever consider breaking confidentiality over something as serious as a student's pregnancy.

But yeah I do watch Glee, not a part of the fandom though. I've missed a lot of episodes and I"m sort of... slowly backfilling while still watching it when it airs.

[heddychaa]

ALSO: fuck "A Beautiful Mind", fuck it so so so hard.

[lookninjas]

I still have not truly forgiven Ron Howard for that. I probably never will.

"So we've got a really exhaustive record of how this guy's schizophrenia presented itself, what his symptoms were, and what the general shape of his delusions were. Ah, fuck it -- let's give him imaginary friends. It's cinematic."

Akiva Goldsmith, you bastard.

I can't imagine what it would be like to watch this show from the perspective of a teacher. I have a hard time with it just as someone who once went to high school.

[heddychaa]

It's a very good lesson in learning to compartmentalize LOL LOL LOL. Which is a lesson I sorely need to learn, anyway.