lessamazingphil:

troyesghost:

lessamazingphil:

i’m genuinely worried about my teachers, who are clearly unqualified in dealing with mental health, giving ‘advice’ about how to deal with stress and mental illness like last week the careers advisor honestly said that you can only get mental illnesses in your 20′s and i just sat there like ???????? for real??????????????????? how can they be allowed to say that

Literally I have no idea why mental health isn’t something that teachers should have to learn about before they can teach and influence???????????? I wasn’t allowed to go back to my school because my principle doesn’t give a shit about mental health. He said something like it was my fault for not completing work when he knew that it was out of my control because of my mental health??? I can guarantee if I had a physical injury that I had to stay out of school for I would have been able to go back with no problem

Yeah teachers seem to have a habit of ignoring the fact that not every student is in a situation where they are financially, mentally, physically or emotionally able to commit to school or to studying in a way that teachers assume is possible!! It’s such a bad thing and I /love/ school but I cannot and will not ignore the fact that school is designed to favour people with little to no difficulties in their life – i.e. an extremely small amount of students!!