Warren Smith
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 May
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Let's try and learn how to critically think. So let's analyze the tweet ourselves. So that statement, do you see anything problematic?
So it happened yesterday. I was fired from my full-time teaching position.
I am absolutely surprised by this completely. I never expected this at all. This came out accidentally. We have interactions like this on a daily basis. This one just happened to be captured on camera.
I have devoted four years of my life to this school and yesterday it was like being a character in a video game and just being deleted.
Well, public attention, it was that video that you're talking about. But the beginning, I mean, I've been thinking about this a lot because I've had time to reflect on it more. After that video, there was, it was a strange experience because suddenly you have one five minute video and suddenly you have this perceived value. but I mean, I was the exact same person as before that video.
Now, I mean, it was not, for me, it was life-changing though. So I have people, some people wanting to talk to me, which was people that I have genuinely admired. Like, I mean, this is a bit kind of the, Dave Rubin, just opportunities that I never just, never expected.
And so I've been reflecting on those conversations because I often, I found myself kind of feeling like I was trying to live up to something from that video. So this idea of what suddenly I was labeled this kind of like this critical thinking Socratic method guy. And I wasn't intentionally doing that at all. I have no background in Socratic method or critical thinking.
I was just doing what I thought was sensible in the moment.
So after graduate school, I found myself as a public school teacher right up before COVID, the year leading into COVID, just teaching what I majored in. And my plans are always to be a college professor. And I teach some courses, but I'm not tenure track or anything. And perhaps one day I... But...
I found myself in this unlikely position, and I enjoyed it, teaching the same subject matter, video technology, what we're doing right here. Two high school kids. Two high school kids.
just by pure kind of just chance. And I really enjoyed it. COVID hits, everything goes ape crazy. The school shuts down. They make cuts because of the teacher's union. All first year hires are gone. So that kind of left a taste in my mouth about unions. One of my first experiences with unions.
And so I started looking for another job and I found a school that specialized in kids with behavioral challenges. And this is kind of what I was alluding to at the beginning. There are things that I've not, I've wanted to talk about in these kinds of interviews that happen or when someone wants to discuss this, they want to discuss the video.
And I find myself, cause you've spoken about when you feel your words, making you not what you could be or weaker. You can feel it.
I decided that I would start practicing not saying things that would make me weak. And what happened was that I had to stop saying almost everything that I was saying.
And that's how it felt. You practiced with that, have you? To say that you had an impact on my life, which is why this is surreal, to say you had an impact on my life would be an understatement. And we can get into that if you'd like. That was in graduate school. Okay. but I was feeling that in those conversations, trying to live up to something in a way.
I mean, it was, you're kind of saying that what people want to hear not trying to sound intelligent, but something like that.
And I never expected anything like this to happen, but I did tell myself, if I ever, by some miracle, had the chance to speak to you, I would allow myself permission to allow my words to have that vulnerability and to go to that place that I have not allowed myself to go to because I think there is value there. But the reason I bring that, because that is kind of,
I've never spoken about the reality of the school where I was teaching. Yeah, okay. Let's go down that path. So these are kids with behavioral challenges that other schools could not handle. So they put them all together. It's a last line of defense, sort of. So they're specialized. It's funded through... public school system.
So a student is so challenging, it could be for any reason, some are involved with gangs, substance abuse challenges, some are bullies, some are the bullied. For whatever reason, that school can't, they're just not equipped. They pay, I think it's $50,000 a head, something along those lines, to send them to this school, which is governed by a board and an executive director. And here I am.
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