People should be free to study what they want, and they usually don't get to. That's because school is about learning obedience to authority figures for your future supervisor. Not learning.
Don't blame teachers for this institutional failure.
Hate to spoil it for you but a lot of teachers do that kind of stuff on purpose. If it’s cringy and students hate it or it ends up being funny, that reaction itself will help kids remember it.
I'm 15 years removed from school now but my god do I still remember the cringy song they used to teach us all of the wavelengths of radiation. All of us from that class do, it's crazy how good it actually works. And if i ever need to figure out which one is stronger I just sing the song and I get the order.
It's definitely cringy, but I often admired the attempts when my uni lecturers tried.
Meme culture evolves rapidly, especially nowadays - and for a job that already has a fucked work-life balance, the fact that they're even trying to keep up is admirable.
I'm an idiot. I googled it and found Southwest flights and got confused. Then I spent a few minutes thinking it was some web comic code like how we do xkcd numbers, and looked for web comics titles that match SW.
Then my smut brain kicked in and I remembered what the code was for.
People should be free to study what they want, and they usually don't get to. That's because school is about learning obedience to authority figures for your future supervisor. Not learning.
I'd like to see a c/ItsNotThatDeepBro crop up (yes, I know I could make it but don't think I'd be a good mod)
This post isn't so bad but there's a lot of this sorta thing on the instance boiled down to cumulative upvotes turning it into just another echo chamber but nobody wants anything toxic as r/im14andthisisdeep in such a small space
I teach at uni and instead of memes, I just make really dark throwaway lines. "Y'all need to turn this in on time. I can't fail half the class... again". That's my least dark line this past week; I blame Craig Ferguson for me randomly adding "again" or "yet" to very dark or very flamboyant things.
Mind, I teach social psych, which covers stuff like aggression. Tagging on a "except that one time we don't talk about" in regards to murder is just, idk, fun.
Funnily during my college, one of our lecturer is "cool" by adding some funny memes on certain hard part of lecture. Can say it helps for some people to remember as learning can be fun too and to keep everyone relaxed.
But yes if you're trying to meme so hard with 10 years old of meme, and then the audience does not understand them, it does feels awkward for some people, like who does rage comic panel in 2023?