[anal_reactor]

I attended one of best high schools in the area.

One teacher, when I asked him what I can do about my failing grade, told me "you can go hang yourself". Why was I getting a failing grade in the first place? Well, it was normal that three quarters of the class would be failing his tests. That's just the kind of teacher he was.

The PE teacher thought that his role was to teach us discipline based on fear. Later I heard a fun story about him getting a new class and thinking that one of the girls was a student, while she was actually the mother of one of the students. She saw the students being yelled at for 45 minutes straight, she got yelled personally at and called retarded. Of course nothing happened to him.

The literature teacher yelled at us so hard that we were literally afraid of talking to her. She hated us, and at some point made that openly clear, by being mean on purpose. She never gave me more than "barely passing", even though at the standardized test I got a near-perfect score.

Once she did a test, threw the paper away, and assigned us grades by how much she liked each student. I brought up this story during reunion, and was told "she actually prepared us for how we'd be treated in college and adult life".

And that was one of the best schools that always took the most talented students from the region. In this context, having two LLMs talk to each other really isn't a bad thing.

[yubblegum]

This is so over the top that you might as well name and shame here to lend credibility to your story. What school in what "area" are you talking about?

[anal_reactor]

Yeah and dox myself. No thank you.

It's not "over the top". It's the reality of the education system in Eastern Europe.

[yubblegum]

Well at least the general area is clear!

[kbelder]

I initially downvoted you because your story was obviously untrue. But... I was unthinkingly assuming you were American. I undid the downvote, because I have no idea what schools in your country are like.

[anal_reactor]

This is a leftover from the communism where the whole point of the education system was to create obedient citizens who never dare to speak up against authorities. This was achieved by forming a strict hierarchy where those above you would shit on you and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it, but if you climb the social ladder, as a reward you'd get free pass to shit on those below you. It takes decades at best to fight the issue, and when you take into account the budget with which the ministry of education is working, it's pretty much impossible to hire competent staff at schools. The problem is particularly visible at universities, which have traditionally enjoyed higher degree of autonomy.

It's not all that bad though. Sometimes the teachers would bend the rules in the students' favor, which allows to treat them like human beings, rather than "computer says you fail".

[raverbashing]

Hence why my sympathy to teachers is limited. Not zero, for sure. But there's a limit