I’m still pondering this and my response from a few days ago.

We recently went on a trip with a group of friends. It is a group we are very close with and we know each other very well. One of the ladies in the group is a teacher.

At one point during the weekend the teachers eldest daughter was telling us about how she had given homework answers to a boy before in school but how she wasn’t anymore since she had realized she shouldn’t be doing that.

The teacher, her mother, then turns to her and says: ‘You shouldn’t ever do that, that is mediocre white boy behavior that lets white boys get into job positions like middle managmenet and lets them keep jobs they aren’t qualified for.’

This statement stunned me and took me aback and it must have showed because she asked me ‘what?’. I said the we were all white and by many definitions we were all mediocre including myself and her husband. She took it as a joke and said something about how that wasn’t what she meant.

But I’m still thinking on this days later and kicking myself that I didn’t respond more strongly.

She, a middle age white teacher, can’t see the forest for the trees here? Her husband is a rank-and-file IT worker and college dropout. He’s a great guy and one of the smartest people I know but by many measures he’s a ‘mediocre white man’. Similar for myself and the other husband on the trip. We have great lives but we’re not at the top of any field.

What an awful image to give her daughter of her own father and the males around her. What an awful opinion to take into a classroom as a teacher. What a thing to say about young boy and another student?

In effect ‘he’s not worth anything because of his skin color and lack of academic achievements’.

She’s a regular ‘slightly liberal’ teacher and not a crazy you see on tiktok, at least she hasn’t been in the past. This is what your average male child has to deal with in school and overcome.

Was he wrong for copying answers, sure. But does that warrant blasting race and gender for that? No.

Do you know how many marginally attractive girls tried to copy my homework in school by flirting and laying it on? Lots.

I’m going to talk to her husband and bring it up again. But watch your boys and schools guys.