Anon introduces himself
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GreentextFlashback to a kid in my class who ruined his entire highschool time by saying "my name is [name] and I breed rabbits" during the first 10 minutes of school.
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I absolutely hate those "let's go around the circle and introduce ourselves" exercises. Making children do them seems especially cruel.
Don't you think it's good to train children to be able to talk to strangers, in public and introduce themselves? I know it's stressful but I think it is useful.
It's not training though, you get thrown into the real thing immediately that decides the rest of your social time at school.
If you were encouraged and made to practice in private before, then I would agree with you. But there is no "training" in this, it's just, either you can already do it or you can't.
It would be possible to coach kids about what to say in such situations, make them prepare and practice in private, let the teacher hear the introduction before anyone else, give feedback, and then put them in front of the class. And afterwards, talk about how it went, what went well, what to improve. Does any of this happen? If no, then it's no training.
It'd just be a lot less horrible if you don't have to come up with something to say about yourself. Kids are RUTHLESS and if you're not quick on your feet, or even if you are, but the thing you say can be taken wrong, you will be bullied for the rest of your time in school over it. Unless you luck out and someone else's thing is even worse.
That's just not how people introduce themselves out in the real world though.
Someone in our new partner team has scheduled a meeting for 11am today for us to introduce ourselves to each other.
Guess how it's going to be structured
I'm so sorry.
work is the real world and i have some news
What do you think is different compared to when you join some new company, training or club and you are asked to present yourself to the group?
That happens a lot less than you think. And I try to avoid clubs etc that do that nonsense.
Depends how many of these kids will end up in AA meetings
I guess the teachers will just have to make educated guesses based on which students they presume will end up strung out, and then have only those kids practice the introductions.
(But, for real, I've encountered this shit in numerous workplaces)
Yeah, and the people who do it in social situations are usually corporate drones.
Introducing yourself to others is like the basis of all socialization. 🤔
Introducing yourself to others is normal. Speaking infront of a group is not. Both can bring out social anxiety but public speaking is different than socializing with a small group.
Speaking a few sentences in front a classroom sized group is pretty normal and kids should be exposed to it. Uncomfortable experiences are a part of growing up.
Of course. But as the first thing overall with no prior training about it at all? No coaching about examples on what to say, no advice about your choices before the real thing? No after-the-fact reflection about what was good, what was bad, what could be worked on?
Both are very important. Not being able to speak in front of a group can change the trajectory of your entire life. Children especially should have as many paths open as possible for when they're ready to decide which one to take.
Yes, but some people, myself included, find forcibly requiring individuals to introduce themselves in succession to be disingenuous.
Yeah, but there's something about forcing people to do it that just removes the fun from it all.
Is it cruel?
I don't agree, I think if you force a crying child to say their name — that's obviously going too far. But it is important to get kids used to socializing, human beings need other human beings ultimately.
I think if you force a crying child to say their name — that’s obviously going too far.
i'm sorry you experienced that. if it's any consolation, the only times anyone gets forced to do anything at my wife's program is for safety reasons. like, get out of the burning building! don't elope from the classroom to the street with busy traffic or the shooting range just o'er yonder! life and death stuff. i want to say teachers have learned better, but i also want to say teachers have seen just that specific bullshit and been appalled by it. y'know, because they're human like you and most of me have empathy.
i do too. I have 3 believable truths 3 unbelievable truths, 3 believable lies, 3 unbelievable lies, 7 "interesting facts" about me (i used to have 8 but one of them, uh it required me to tell a joke and that does not work at 8 AM so now it's gone. I don't function 8 AM well before.) and i can pick and choose between my pre-prepped bullshit based on my audience and how awake and healthy i feel and what stupid game they decide to play.
worst part is i used to do improv so for the longest time i would just wing it and did fine. then they started doing them before coffee. now i gotta copy my bullshit offa my phone onto cue cards if i have one of those things
Upvote for the Haruhi reference cringe or not.
It's no better or worse than going with the usual Egon quote about collecting fungus, molds, and spores. That's how nerds find each other, one of them fires off a signal flare, revealing their location and putting themselves in danger, and other misfits sit next to them at lunch so they can all get hazed together.
What the hell are you even talking about?
How people find each other in school. Normal people probably just have to read magazines or act like each other to fit in. If you're a misfit you're never going to find other misfits with that playbook.
I don't know about you, but my school had clubs that let me meet other people with similar interests. Ironically, that's literally what the anime this is referencing is about.
I am happy for you. My experiences differed. I was the only kid at my school who knew you could spend recess in the library, and the clubs were all sports until much later.
You should know, you're an introvert turtle for crying out loud!
Would have been pretty funny (to those in the know) if he managed to do it with confidence. Shame.
Also damn, this Greentext is 10 years old. Doing this nowadays in highschool would definitely net you a room full of blank stares (best case) even if you don't botch the delivery.
Fun fact: this practice hasn't changed in the hundreds (thousands?) of years we've been asking kids to introduce themselves to a group
Yeah, but this is a specific quote from an anime. The practice still exists I'm sure, but would anyone get the reference?
Truly God helps those that help themselves.
