Not to make a Christmas Post but Santa did everything right re: the Rudolph situation and every time I see some edgelord slander talking about âthe lesson of Rudolph is that your differences will be punished until the powers that be find them usefulâ I just assume that person is a little thick and misunderstood a song written to be so simple babies can understand it
One of the most basic things they teach you in Teacher School is that if you know a kid is being bullied, bringing all the other kids together and scolding them for being mean and excluding That Kid is a great way to escalate it from âthey donât let this kid play with themâ to âthey are beating up this kid.â If you actually want to address the problem, the other kids canât know theyâre being told what to do. A good way to address it is to create a situation where the bullied kid gets to be the big cool hero in a way that benefits everybody, then put the bullied kid in that situation and let them save the day. Santa, in âRudolph,â is essentially doing the same thing that any teacher does when they have a class jeopardy game with a pizza party riding on it, and give the last question to the weird kid whoâs bullied for being super into anime, and that question happens to be about that kidâs favorite anime, and they get it right, and now EVERYBODY gets pizza, thanks to Anime Kid! Creating a situation, among a community of christmas-loving deer, where christmas can only happen because of the thing thatâs special about Rudolph, was literally LITERALLY him intervening on Rudolphâs bullying. Do you think Santa, an immortal time-bending elf-saint who is sanctioned by god to monitor the children of the world and deliver them toys, is unable to navigate a foggy night? You really think his offering Rudolph, an untested rookie, the glamor post was an act of last resort? Do any of you know ANYTHING about Pedagogy or Classroom Management? These are deer. BABIES understand this song.
I mean, I actually donât know anything about classroom management. Thank you for explaining! I feel better about that song now.























