I don’t know your teachers or situation and I am going to wildly generalise here, but having worked with teachers, they were probably just their best.
They are teaching a syllabus they didn’t write (you can only put so much make up on that pig) to a group of largely disengaged students, for generally insufficient pay.
They probably just wanted to make it through the day without contemplating self harm.
A spirited contrarian student who fancies themselves an intellectual can be dealt with the ideal way, engaging them, acknowledging the short comings of teaching content to a wide range of intellects/engagement levels.
Or the less ideal way, draconian authority. Sounds like you ran up against the former. Sorry that was your experience.
I don’t know your teachers or situation and I am going to wildly generalise here, but having worked with teachers, they were probably just their best.
They are teaching a syllabus they didn’t write (you can only put so much make up on that pig) to a group of largely disengaged students, for generally insufficient pay.
They probably just wanted to make it through the day without contemplating self harm.
A spirited contrarian student who fancies themselves an intellectual can be dealt with the ideal way, engaging them, acknowledging the short comings of teaching content to a wide range of intellects/engagement levels.
Or the less ideal way, draconian authority. Sounds like you ran up against the former. Sorry that was your experience.