Some Students Say Having To Speak in Front of the Class is an Unreasonable Burden For Those With Anxiety and Are Requesting Alternative Options (theatlantic.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: For many middle and high school students, giving an in-class presentation was a rite of passage. Teachers would call up students, one by one, to present their work in front of the class and, though it was often nerve wracking, many people claim it helped turn them into more confident public speakers. "Coming from somebody with severe anxiety, having somebody force me to do a public presentation was the best idea to happen in my life," one woman recently tweeted. According to a recent survey by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, oral communication is one of the most sought-after skills in the workplace, with over 90 percent of hiring managers saying it's important. Some educators also credit in-class presentations with building essential leadership skills, and increasing students' confidence and understanding of material.

But in the past few years, students have started calling out in-class presentations as discriminatory to those with anxiety, demanding that teachers offer alternative options. This week, a tweet posted by 15-year-old high school student declaring "Stop forcing students to present in front of the class and give them a choice not to" garnered over 130,000 retweets and nearly half a million likes. A similar sentiment tweeted in January also racked up thousands of likes and retweets. And teachers are listening.

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Apparently yes, why the reality because it gives shameless bullshitters a huge advantage, without it, the lying scum buckets would have no employment because beyond their ability to lie shamelessly about what ever they are told to lie about, they are shallow worthless cunts.

Here's the material, read it for yourself. OHHHHH NOOOESS I can't possibly do that, I am toooo stupid to read, read it to me, in that most charming way a shameless liar does.

For those who support public presentation, go fuck yourselves you shameless lying pieces of shit. I have never ever in my fucking whole life ever preferred a public presentation over having the information handed to me to read and then email off a few queries and wait for a reply. Not fucking once, not fucking ever. For me, the only reason public presentation occur was so that the most worthless cunts of all, shameless liars, could get a job.

Fuck off with this shit you fucking twats. Except teachers, if you are learning to be a teacher and doing lectures, cool public speaking for you, for the rest, the lying politicians, the lying media dick brains, the lying public speakers selling what ever crap, time shares, retirement funds, insurance, what ever the crap, my attitude to them, fuck off (all you cunts ever have done in decades of presentation that I had to sit through is waste my fucking time, two hours of presentation replaced with one page of notes). The fucking morons who just love to talk and talk and talk and demand that people listen.