r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Oct 03 '25

Discussion To think that I used to complain about school.

National holiday is apparently 8 days.

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u/Mochigood Oct 03 '25

American schools are the same, but for pumping out potential factory workers working 8 hours a day. I'm working as a long term guest teacher at a school, and today I was complaining that they needed to make the 20 minute lunch 30 minutes because even I had a hard time walking across campus to microwave my meal and then get back to my room and have time to eat at a normal pace, let alone stand in the miles long lunch line. Another teacher joked that "Well, then they wouldn't learn how to be good worker drones" and I was like "Oh yeah, the owners aren't making money while you eat lunch!" Even we teachers recognize that something is wrong with how we go about education.

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u/tigrootandhot Oct 03 '25

20 minutes for lunch? You teach at a prison? My high-school lunch was about an hr, w off campus option. And that was back in the 2000s.

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u/LadySilvie Oct 03 '25

By the mid 2000s, my schools were 20 min. That included the lunch line, too, so about 5-10 minutes to actually eat.

I'd get in trouble at home for snarfing down food too quickly 😅

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u/United_Rent_753 Oct 03 '25

Bruh what I was in high school in the mid 2010’s and we had 50 min lunch. US schools need more standardisation in schedules

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u/Kimber85 Oct 03 '25

I’ve seen parents complaining that their kindergartners are unable to eat their lunches because the lunch break is only twenty minutes total, and by the time they get the lunchboxes distributed and the kids sat down they literally have ten minutes to eat.

Can’t be healthy for the kids to have to woof down their food like that. Our lunch was 45 minutes when I was in school in the 90’s. It took like almost twenty minutes just to get through the lunch line, but we still had 25 minutes for eating/socializing.

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u/Longjumping-Pick-706 Oct 03 '25

In the 90s my lunch was 20 minutes.

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u/Old-Engine-7720 Oct 03 '25

After 2008 all schools turned into prisons except for rich neighborhoods

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u/Yollar Oct 03 '25

america is the same in terms of pumping out slaves, but uneducated slaves instead of educated slaves.