Ruby Granger #29 Is it soon yet?

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"I'm not planning on making much study content anymore," Ruby says, having just released another crappy academic planner and now delaying her already-delayed Italy vlog in favour of another study-related video about school preparedness even though she's a 22-year-old graduate now.

It's a bit like saying, "No more chocolate for me!" and then breaking into the Cadbury factory in the middle of the night to gorge on Creme Eggs and swim around in a vat of melted chocolate like Augustus bleeping Gloop.

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Speaking of greedy little assholes, Ruby starts her video in her room, wearing her (unironed) PETA-branded t-shirt, even though she has NAVVER actively promoted the organisation and would NAVVER support them in any way, how DAHRRR YOU accuse her of SOCH THINGS!

Her desk is so poorly-suited to her daily purposes that she's had to shove her new iMac up against the wall to have even a modicum of usable space. This is the kind of situation that calls for things like, ohhh, I don't know...maybe an actual desk? Possibly a proper office chair with back support, not a child's chair from a Victorian primary school? Or, I don't know, maybe move into the house you bought for yourself?

In the meantime, Ruby - queen of planning and big-brain thinking - has opted to work on a desk with the depth of a postcard while sitting on a too-small stiff chair which has a personal vendetta against her vertebrae.

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Ruby scribbles all over her math homework (a subject she hasn't studied for several years) and announces that she's going to tell everyone her top tips for things to do before the school year finishes. And if your school year already finished, then you'll get ideas for things to do before next year starts. "But what if I just graduated?" you may ask.



A while back, Ruby made a whole video full of stupid and unhelpful things which you should do the night before school. But the night before simply isn't good enough any more. You need to plan for the next year before the current one has even finished, apparently, or your academic future will wither away faster than Ruby's rapidly-vanishing youth.

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"The FARRST THING" to do is to apply liberal amounts of fake freckles all over your nose in an effort to look more child-like. This way, when you return to your old primary school next week/year at the age of 22 to try to blend in with the other students and repeat your education and avoid adulthood for 10 more years, it'll hopefully take the adults a precious few more seconds before they realise that you don't belong there.

Wait, that's not the first thing? (Checks video.) Whoops, my bad -- the actual "FARSST THING" is somehow just as stupid.

Why not spend some time properly organising all your notes from the last year+?

BUT WAIT! DON'T JUST BURN ALL YOUR OLD NOTES THAT YOU'LL NEVER NEED AGAIN.

Ruby's right. Don't burn any single-use notes and documents. It's paper and card. Recycle them.

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Wait, what's that, Ruby? Don't recycle them? Oh. But what about sustainability and the environment...?

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Ruby would prefer you burn any notes you don't keep, but keep more than you burn. Don't just throw out all the notes that you'll definitely never need again! Who knows when you might need them again?!

Ruby's right. I mean, you could be riding the bus to work and a crazed bomber gets on board and takes everyone hostage. He'll free everyone if you can just solve one tricky math equation! In impossible-to-foresee situations like those, you'll wish you had stacks of years-old algebra homework littering your work bag, which is possibly why Ruby still has math homework from 6 years ago readily accessible.

Sorry, did I say "riding the bus to work"? I'm sorry, I forgot that work and public transport don't exist in Ruby's world of sheltered privilege.

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NOMBAH TYOO: Why not spend some time properly organising all your notes from the last year+?

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(Checks notes.)

Yup, the first two items on Ruby's list are the same thing. Organise all the notes you want to keep and file them away. Anything "important" or that you "wahhrked really hard on". Like old algebra homework, apparently.

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Ruby says she keeps multiple lever-arch folders full of old notes. "One for A-Level, one for GCSE and one for avverything befwore that." Ruby's really just keeping massive compendiums of her primary/junior school homework like a complete basket case.

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She says she's also kept her creative writing work from school, then cuts to this shot of the Dickens collection she stole from her parents and claimed as her own.

If Ruby were anything approaching a competent editor, I'd say this was an intentional shot to draw an unconscious visual link between Ruby's scribbled drivel fiction and the works of Charles Dickens. But since she's not, this appears to be a hilarious accident.

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And to prove her lack of editing skills, Ruby repeats some footage from earlier in the video of her assembling some weird, bulky ransom package to send to her future self.

NOMBAH THREE: Digitally scan anything which is "ASSPASSHALLY IMPWORETANT" for "NAXT YAHHR".

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Self-proclaimed master of planning and efficiency has a list of ways to make your academic life SYOOPAH-DYOOPAH ORGANISED! The first two are the same bleeping thing, and the third one makes them completely redundant.

If you digitise your notes, then get rid of the original papers. Recycle it all. It's not important financial documents or the deed to a house. You don't need it. Sure, you might want a redundancy backup, but do that digitally, too. One on your PC, one in the cloud, one on a USB stick.

This:

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Versus this...

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But as always, Ruby's life is full of endless, redundant busywork and clutter and she has never once learned to work smart and efficiently or streamline any of these pointless, superfluous tasks.

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The editing incompetence continues, and alongside the familiar clipped sentences and garbled assembly of footage, there's a single-frame image of pale-faced, fake-freckled Ruby lurking amongst the B-roll footage at 03:06. It just pops up out of nowhere like a horror movie jump-scare from a film about a sinister, unhinged English girl who steals the lives and homework of those around her.

Ruby does not explain why you need to keep the original paperwork for old science classes from when you were 10 to begin with, but especially if you digitally backed them up.

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"NOMBAH FWORE: Myake a tyoo-dyoo list of all of your sommah hyomewahhrk and things."

Ruby writes yet more fictional school tasks as she dreams she's still in high school.

She segues into advertising her crappy planner and says this is exactly the kind of thing she used her own planner for! Only she didn't.

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"NOMBAH FOIYVE: Make a sommah bocket list."

Ruby's life is so stunted and sheltered that she has to go back years to find footage of anything resembling a summer activity that wasn't just her withering away in her bedroom.

She shows footage of some kind of cultish Midsommar-esque gathering of Tory Karens and their Stepford children which took place on the grounds of Ruby's family manor.

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And then she shows footage of Martha from years ago, long before her e-girl phase.

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And then a tiny snippet of her Italy trip, which we'll see all over again when she releases her Italy vlog in several months.

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And a shot of Ruby with Blakeney at the beach, because she's desperately clinging to the hope that Blakeney hasn't just moved on with her life to get a job and be an adult and is happily rid of Ruby the productivity parasite.

Ruby rambles about how she's more excited and "inventive" while she's studying and can come up with more ideas for her days off. Even though all her days off are spent doing the exact same things.

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"NOMBAH SYIX: REFLACKT ON YOUR ACADEMIC YEAR."

Ruby says you should REFLACKT on how you think the year went and what you should have done differently.

Oh, duck off, Ruby.

Nobody needs to do this, much less at bleeping GCSE or A-Level. If you did your best, that's all you need to do. Take on board any teacher feedback for next time and that's it. Don't spend all your free time thinking about school and college. It's not beneficial. It certainly never helped Ruby. She's never learned from her failures and never reflected on or grew as a person as a result of anything.

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"NOMBAH SAVVEN: You moight want tyoo nyote down your ideal morning and night routines for the naxt yahhr."

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Ideal night routine: Go to bed.
Ideal morning routing: Wake up after a decent night's sleep if you can get it.

Boom, done. Get enough sleep if you can. That's all you need to do. None of this superficial, affectatious bull that Ruby concocts.

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"NOMBAH EIGHT: Wroyte a thankyou card to your teachahs!"

Ehh, sure, why not.

It's not exactly common to do in the UK after primary school (which is the mindset in which Ruby perpetually lives), but if your teacher worked hard and supported you, why not get them a card and/or a gift at the end of your/their time at school to say thankyou? It's not a requirement. They aren't going to be offended if you don't and they aren't going to grade you more generously if you do. But after that, leave them the duck alone, Ruby.

Do not send them card after card after card and unsolicited gifts year after year, long after you've graduated from their school. They were hassled and harangued by your "DIDJOOKNYOW?!" bull and had their time monopolised by you for your entire time there. They are not your friends or your peers and they are not on the hook to endure a lifetime of stalking from you just because they refrained from pointing out what a complete dunce you are. Give them some peace and quiet for the rest of their life, for god's sake.

But Ruby, if you really wanted to help teachers, you'd stop voting Tory and encourage others to do the same. A thankyou card won't get them better pay, funding and working conditions.

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22-year-old uni graduate Ruby then writes an imaginary card to Miss Honey, the teacher from Matilda, because she's beyond a joke at this point.

Ruby's apparently learned to spell the word "difficulty". One word down, the whole rest of the English language to go.

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"NOMBAH NOIYNE: Clean out your bag thoroughly."

The first sensible idea and it's something Ruby undoubtedly never does.

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It's also just an excuse to shoehorn in undeclared ads for gifted teas and snack bars and lie some more about how tidy and clean she is.

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She claims she disinfects her bag, cleans it inside and out and sprays it with "hyome spray". Yeah, not buying it, Ruby.

Martha, who Ruby has somehow talked into acting as camera operator, chimes in. "EXXXTRAAAAA!"

"VARRY ACKSTRA," Ruby says. But these are serious times and we can have no levity, so Ruby abruptly cuts away and Martha is not allowed to speak again.

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"NOMBAH TAN: Thryow away annie-thing that yoo dyon't need."

So...basically just Number 1/2 again.

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"NOMBAH ELAVVEN: CHACK THROUGH YORE SCHYOOL EMAILS AND MAKE SURE THARR AREN'T ANNIE LYOOSE ANDS YOO NYEED TO TOIY OP."

Did you get all your work in on time? Yes? Then who gives a duck about your emails. If it's urgent, you'll hear about it, otherwise, enjoy the summer.

This list is also geared towards young children. They're not going to need to check a school email or "tie up any loose ends".

Ruby shows her screen and apparently very important to her is finding out how to accept all edits in Word, so that she can just go "YASS, YASS, CORRACKT ALL MOIY ARRORS ALREADY, I DYON'T WANT TO PRYOOFREAD IT MOIYSALF!" Also of vital news is that London plans to band fast foods from opening nears schools.

And she's been shopping for expensive Guess handbags and watching middle-school mean girl movies again, as she always seems to when it's time to write a book about bullies, having no actual experience with the topic herself.

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"NOMBAH TWALVE: Write summaries about the myost valuable and impworetant and intrassting things you learned this yaaahr, oiythah academically or about yoresalf."

So...reflect on your academic year? Hold up, let me check my notes again...

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Yep, this is just number bleeping 6 again, Ruby! For the love of god, eat a bleeping sandwich because your brain is utter mush and you should not be providing advice to anyone about anything.

It's also a completely useless piece of advice. If you learned something, then your brain is already aware of it. If you actually enjoyed it, then you're probably going to recall it. Nobody needs to write comprehensive list to remind themselves of all the things they learned and enjoyed to read at some point in the future, unless they have crippling amnesia.

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The visual symbolism is completely lost on Ruby...

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"NOMBA THAARTEEN: Make sure your school uniform is WASHED."

Ruby doesn't do laundry as an adult and never irons anything she wears (her PETA shirt has clearly just been pulled out of a laundry hamper and is completely creased and wrinkled), now she's stressing that children need to make sure they wash their uniform and PE kit and IRON IT.

If you're young enough to wear a school uniform, in all likelihood, your parents/guardian will be doing your laundry. You don't need to worry about this.

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Ruby's desperately trying to prove that she really does her own laundry though, JANUINELY! But since she never does, she just recycles that footage from a while back of her struggling to figure out how an iron works while mummy supervises in the background - the only footage that exists of her holding an iron, because she never uses one.

Meanwhile, everything she wore before this footage and after is creased beyond reason.

"OBVIOUSLY THAT'S VARRY SCHOOL-SPECIFIC AS WAL," Ruby notes. Because small children should definitely be using searing-hot irons.

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"NOMBAH FWORETEEN: Make sure you clean your wyaaahtuh bottuwww."

Ruby demonstrates how to do this, and as always with her horrifyingly inept attempts to try to prove she does housework, she just gives the outside of the container an awkward scrub and doesn't bother with the inside. No bacteria could possibly have gotten in there. And Ruby should know - after all, she "understands how the world works on a molecular level" because she studied science at A-level.

And apparently you only need to do this once a year, so bear that in mind, too.

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Ruby shows that the utterly destroyed chair, which she managed to somehow completely tear apart in one year just by sitting on it, is still taking up space in her room.

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NOMBAH FIFTEEN: Pack your school bag a year in advance.

"Your schyool bag is a good vassull fwore keeping avverything togather in one plyace."

If you're in school, you'll be taking a pen and a notepad. That's it. Do it the night before. And even if you forget those two things, you'll be provided them by the school anyway. So who gives a tit? It's not complicated, much as Ruby would like to imply that your life will be ruined if you don't put a ballpoint pen in your bag months in advance.

This was just an excuse to pretend she uses her planner and takes it everywhere with her. Only...if you use that daily and expect others to, then why're you packing it away in a rucksack until next year, Ruby? Not exactly smart, is it?

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The stupidity continues unabated as Ruby stresses that this tip also applies to uni students too - "HAVE BIG BOXES, LIKE, BIG PLASTIC BOXES OR, LIKE, CYARDBOARD BOXES. THAN it's kind of RADDY TO GYO WHAN YOO WANT TO HAD BACK."

So Ruby believes that you should prepare for next year by cluttering up your room with the biggest, most monolithic boxes full of random tit which you won't need for several months.

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NOMBAH SIXTEEN: "SAT GOALS FOR THE SOMMAH."

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This is number five again!
Sweet Jesus, what a lazy, incompetent, puddle-minded fuckwit.

"We koind of write out own narratives onto things a lot of the toime, syo what koind of sommah do you want to have? You could create a Pintrasst bwoard wi--with--wha--what--you-want to MANIFEST over the somma--[ABRUPT CUT]"

Ruby, this list is geared towards children. Most of the things are specific to primary/junior/high school level kids. 11-year-old kids are not going to have the option of backpacking through Europe and setting their own schedule of adventurous activities. They're not going to plan their summer to "MANIFEST" an idealised life and meet a superficial aesthetic like you do, nor should they.

Just switch off, enjoy summer, do whatever fun stuff you want and have the opportunity to do. But take academia and throw it out the bleeping window and forget all about it unless you get massive enjoyment out of it. Ruby doesn't, and never has, so don't let her tell you that your summer should be "productive".

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Ruby shoves in some old footage of herself spending time with the young children of her parents' friends yet again, because that constitutes like 94% of her social interactions.

But Blakeney will always be her FRAND, JANUINELY! She might not be returning any of Ruby's calls, but that's probably just because she's VARRY BUSY writing lots of replies to the 1,450,643 unanswered letters that Ruby sent her.

Ruby closes out her latest showcase of stupidity, ineptitude and insanity with another reminder that the planner which nobody wants is on sale now. Don't all rush at once, people.
I'm a few pages behind so I don't know if someone has already commented on this but, how did Ms. Careful not notice that her real last name is on display when she showed her typing in outlook into the searchbar (in above screenshot)? Now the world knows her last name and not just us 😉😉
 
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I'm a few pages behind so I don't know if someone has already commented on this but, how did Ms. Careful not notice that her real last name is on display when she showed her typing in outlook into the searchbar (in above screenshot)? Now the world knows her last name and not just us 😉😉
how is she supposed to get her hogwarts letter when they don’t know their last name tho? please think for a second
 
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Hey guys, this is my first post and I didn't know how to open up a new thread with this, so let's put it here. I might have a controversial question. Don't you think it would be best for Ruby if she became a middle grade teacher? She seems to love nothing more than school environment. It's a job where she could reach the level of competence required, so she wouldn't constantly feel stressed out and wouldn't have to work at home like crazy. It's also a social job, meaning that she would be around lots of people on a daily basis, people she actually cares about because she fulfils a role which she most definitely enjoys. I don't think the arguments mentioned above about her being a bad influence on young people would apply here. Other teachers would notice any kind of strange behavior, plus kids being grouped together in a class would "force" her to behave well since being a good rolemodel, being "liked" is what she strives for. I think she could acutally grow a lot and mature as a person if she was a teacher, and feel fulfilled. The only problem I see is her most likely thinking that she deserves a "better" job, so she might never consider this an option. But as you grow, you lose your arrogance unless your environment enables it. Therefore the first step would be to go out into the real world, as so many of you have suggested already ...
 
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I'm a few pages behind so I don't know if someone has already commented on this but, how did Ms. Careful not notice that her real last name is on display when she showed her typing in outlook into the searchbar (in above screenshot)? Now the world knows her last name and not just us 😉😉
haha I noticed that, too. She seems a bit ... sloppy with her editing.
 
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Just watched the video and in all honesty, I don't think the content itself was that bad. I mean, most of the tips were pretty self-explanatory but it was perfectly fine.
I think there's probably some amount of merit in a video like this - a "Here's a few simple things that might help you put a lid on the school year so that you can enjoy your summer without a care in the world" list video. Simple stuff that's easy to forget or put off, outlined in a video aimed at keeping a clear separation between school time and free time. But Ruby's the last person who should be making it. Her toxic productivity mindset seeps into everything. She's completely detached from reality and woefully out of touch.

"Here's some handy tips that might help" becomes "DO THIS NOW OR FACE THE WRATH OF THE PRODUCTIVITY GODS".

"This will help you get academic stuff out of the way to enjoy the summer without stress" becomes "YOU WILL MAKE YOUR SUMMMER ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY AND ACADEMIA".

It's also another glaring reminder that she does not know who her audience is, who she wants her audience to be or what content she actually wants to make, if any.

This is a mess of a list with no cohesion. Some of it's aimed at very young children. Some of it's aimed at uni students. Some of it's aimed at high-schoolers. Ruby never makes any clear distinction between those groups, it's all just slapped together because she's a uni graduate wishing she was in primary school and that's the direction her video took.

She could've made a more focused list based on the uni age group, since that's what she's closest to, and that might've made the entries seem less muddled, but even then it'd be a misguided disaster. She can't help but to push that toxic idea that when you're not studying, you should STILL BE STODDYING or REFLACKTING ON YOUR STODDIES.

The editing is atrocious. Ruby has nothing to do with her time and still won't devote any of it to putting any effort into what she does. Even before she started filming, she put no effort into giving the list a once-over to condense and streamline it. It's full of repeated, redundant or completely moronic tasks, like everything she does in life:

1. Organise, declutter and file away all your notes from the last year or more.
2. Organise, declutter and file away all your notes from the last year or more.
3. Digitise all your notes from the last year or more.
4. Make a list of all the homework to do over the summer.
5. Make a list of general things you want to do over the summer.
6. Reflect on your academic year. What did you learn and enjoy?
7. Write a thankyou card to your teachers.
8. Clean out your school bag.
9. Organise and declutter all your random school stuff from the last year or more.
10. Check your school emails.
11. Reflect on your academic year. What did you learn and enjoy?
12. Wash your school uniform.
13. Clean your water bottle.
14. Pack your school bag ready for next year.
15. Make a list of general things you want to do over the summer.

Getting rid of all the redundant entries, obvious tit that people should be doing regularly anyway, not half-assedly once a year like Ruby (washing water bottle) or stuff that children won't be doing (laundry, checking school email) and Ruby's "ACADEMIA IS YOUR LIFE! YOUR ACADEMIC FUTURE IS IN RUINS IF YOU DON'T DO THIS!" nonsense, the list should look more like this:

1. Organise, declutter and file away all your notes from the last year or more.
2. Organise, declutter and file away all your notes from the last year or more.
1. Organise the notes from the last year or more. Digitise what you want to keep or what might be useful next year, then recycle all the paper notes. 99% of this crap you're never going to need again in your life and it's just taking up space.
2. Make a list of all the homework to do over the summer. Maybe get it out of the way while you're still in the academic mindset and can then enjoy the summer without rushing to do it last-minute. If not, who cares? As long as it gets done, it doesn't matter if it's the first day of summer or the night before school starts. You're 12, it really doesn't matter.
5. Make a list of general things you want to do over the summer.
6. Reflect on your academic year. What did you learn and enjoy?
7. Write a thankyou card to your teachers.

3. Empty your school bag. Get rid of all the stuff you don't need. Since you're probably 11, ask your parents to toss your bag in the wash and call it a day. When it's clean and dry, toss a notepad and a couple of pens in there ready for next year. Or don't, it really doesn't matter. They're not going to take you to the guillotine if you forget to pack a pen for the first day of Year 7.
9. Organise and declutter all your random school stuff from the last year or more.
10. Check your school emails.
11. Reflect on your academic year. What did you learn and enjoy?
12. Wash your school uniform.
13. Clean your water bottle.
14. Pack your school bag ready for next year.

4. Enjoy the summer. The academic year's over and the new one hasn't started. Have fun and put school out of your head. This is your time. Do whatever you want with it.

That's a YouTube short. She should've just made a short, focused Instagram video for the PONKINPRODDOTIVTEE page, since this is one big planner ad.

I hope she sticks to her word of phasing out study videos because every one is more out of touch than the last, but you just know she'll keep doing them because they're HOIGHLY RECKWASSTED, and her writing videos are just going to be stealth study videos anyway.
 
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I think she literally doesn't know who she is outside of a pre-uni school environment where she gets praised for being a good girl and a studious bookworm and staying out of trouble.
 
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Hey guys, this is my first post and I didn't know how to open up a new thread with this, so let's put it here. I might have a controversial question. Don't you think it would be best for Ruby if she became a middle grade teacher? She seems to love nothing more than school environment. It's a job where she could reach the level of competence required, so she wouldn't constantly feel stressed out and wouldn't have to work at home like crazy. It's also a social job, meaning that she would be around lots of people on a daily basis, people she actually cares about because she fulfils a role which she most definitely enjoys. I don't think the arguments mentioned above about her being a bad influence on young people would apply here. Other teachers would notice any kind of strange behavior, plus kids being grouped together in a class would "force" her to behave well since being a good rolemodel, being "liked" is what she strives for. I think she could acutally grow a lot and mature as a person if she was a teacher, and feel fulfilled. The only problem I see is her most likely thinking that she deserves a "better" job, so she might never consider this an option. But as you grow, you lose your arrogance unless your environment enables it. Therefore the first step would be to go out into the real world, as so many of you have suggested already ...
I feel like Ruby might excel at something like this later in life, but for now she thinks she’s far too special and intelligent to just be a teacher.
 
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Don't you think it would be best for Ruby if she became a middle grade teacher? She seems to love nothing more than school environment. It's a job where she could reach the level of competence required, so she wouldn't constantly feel stressed out and wouldn't have to work at home like crazy. It's also a social job, meaning that she would be around lots of people on a daily basis, people she actually cares about because she fulfils a role which she most definitely enjoys.
Maybe it's different in the UK, but in America there is a teacher shortage because teachers are so overworked and stressed. Teachers are expected to spend hours before/after school and at home planning lessons and grading work, not to mention being available for school events and parent meetings.

Ruby enjoys being praised, being at the top of the class, and told her work is excellent. She has never shown an interest in being the one giving the feedback, especially as it would mean having to help students who are not mini-Rubys. Teaching is a whole different skillset that, if done well, requires a deeper knowledge of the material than merely having gone through the content as a student. For all her studying, Ruby has shown no signs of actually having this deeper knowledge.

I don't think the arguments mentioned above about her being a bad influence on young people would apply here.
I would never, ever want my child to be in Ruby's class. The first thing that comes to mind is favoritism- Ruby would absolutely favor the wealthy bookworms, neglecting the students who most need a supportive teacher. Her productivity-at-all-costs mindset would be terrible for her students who need accommodations, extensions, or extra help. Ruby is not at all equipped to help a student who is genuinely behind and not just trying to suck up. She wouldn't even be a good influence on the aforementioned wealthy bookworms, as she would undoubtedly try to live vicariously through them and discourage them from pursuing paths other than Oxford.

Other teachers would notice any kind of strange behavior, plus kids being grouped together in a class would "force" her to behave well since being a good rolemodel, being "liked" is what she strives for. I think she could acutally grow a lot and mature as a person if she was a teacher, and feel fulfilled.
I am firmly against any child being used for an adult's development. Teachers should be fully independent adults with a passion for helping young minds grow, not adults who refuse to accept they're adults. Allowing Ruby unsupervised access to kids is a terrible idea, and even if she ends up maturing, the harm she would do to the kids is not worth it.
 
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Hey guys, this is my first post and I didn't know how to open up a new thread with this, so let's put it here. I might have a controversial question. Don't you think it would be best for Ruby if she became a middle grade teacher? She seems to love nothing more than school environment. It's a job where she could reach the level of competence required, so she wouldn't constantly feel stressed out and wouldn't have to work at home like crazy. It's also a social job, meaning that she would be around lots of people on a daily basis, people she actually cares about because she fulfils a role which she most definitely enjoys. I don't think the arguments mentioned above about her being a bad influence on young people would apply here. Other teachers would notice any kind of strange behavior, plus kids being grouped together in a class would "force" her to behave well since being a good rolemodel, being "liked" is what she strives for. I think she could acutally grow a lot and mature as a person if she was a teacher, and feel fulfilled. The only problem I see is her most likely thinking that she deserves a "better" job, so she might never consider this an option. But as you grow, you lose your arrogance unless your environment enables it. Therefore the first step would be to go out into the real world, as so many of you have suggested already ...
Unless she was very, very lucky and got saddled with a well behaved class in an independent school where every pupil was attentive and wanted to learn (which even in independent schools is pretty fanciful), I think a teacher would be one of the worst professions Ruby could go in.

She thinks every pupil should be like her: “hardworking” and wants to be in school. Reality is that isn’t the case; you’ll get disruptive pupils, lazy pupils, aggressive pupils and so forth. What would Ruby do if a fight broke out? Students didn’t listen to her? Were rude? She’d have a full on breakdown.

Even if she worked with younger pupils at primary level, plenty of those will be disruptive. She’ll be expecting thank you cards, picnics and sing songs, when in reality, it’s a very small minority that are like Ruby.

Her perfected view of what a school would be would be crushed and it would destroy her. No way would it be a good job for her.

I would never, ever want my child to be in Ruby's class. The first thing that comes to mind is favoritism- Ruby would absolutely favor the wealthy bookworms, neglecting the students who most need a supportive teacher. Her productivity-at-all-costs mindset would be terrible for her students who need accommodations, extensions, or extra help. Ruby is not at all equipped to help a student who is genuinely behind and not just trying to suck up. She wouldn't even be a good influence on the aforementioned wealthy bookworms, as she would undoubtedly try to live vicariously through them and discourage them from pursuing paths other than Oxford.
This is absolutely spot on. Ruby would be a toxic, favouritism displaying teacher. If you didn’t spend your break times in the library studying, didn’t spend hours on your homework, didn’t have any desire to go to a Russell Group or weren’t always nice and polite, Ruby would have no interest in you or your development.

She’d want the “easy” pupils, which is sad, because it’s often the ones who are more disinterested in school that need more help; they might come from difficult home situations. Ruby would leave that to the other “adult” teachers though while she joined in at the school book club with the gold star pupils.
 
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I would never, ever want my child to be in Ruby's class. The first thing that comes to mind is favoritism- Ruby would absolutely favor the wealthy bookworms, neglecting the students who most need a supportive teacher.
That's a very good point. She would feel personally insulted if a student did not appreciate studying or disrespect her advice. She would be the happiest if everybody just admired her, but that's more than unlikely, so she would probably go through a second "being bullied" phase and quit before her job could actually teach her some life lessons.

I also agree with what you're saying about not using children for an adult's development. Absolutely, of course. But I personally have had so many bad teachers with undeveloped characters that I see teachers as you're describing them as ideal cases, not standard cases.
 
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Yeah, I think she'd only be happy with a very small Venn diagram of kids who're "well-behaved", bookish teacher's pets (so, Ruby/Hermione/Erimentha), but who also aren't smarter than Ruby believes she was at that age. And even then, she'd be more focused on trying to befriend the kid than teach them anything.

You'd better believe if any child she taught was showing more aptitude and more advanced progress than she was at that age, she'd take it personally and sabotage the hell out of that kid. She'd only be there to relive childhood again, she wouldn't want any reminders that she wasn't/isn't as smart as she wishes.

Someone as toxic and narcissistic as Ruby has no place overseeing the development of children. She'd be trying to set them extra unnecessary homework, preaching her warped productivity ideals and making the whole thing all about herself. She'd be the kind of teacher who, when overseeing the school play, would cast herself in the lead role. She'd take the test alongside the kids to try to beat them.
 
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She'd be the kind of teacher who, when overseeing the school play, would cast herself in the lead role.
I had a teacher who did that. It wasn’t exactly a lead role, but nonetheless an important role.
 
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You'd better believe if any child she taught was showing more aptitude and more advanced progress than she was at that age, she'd take it personally and sabotage the hell out of that kid.
I imagine she'd also try to take undue credit should one of her students get into Oxbridge or accomplish anything impressive.
 
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How sad that it seems so right what you are replying, like there's such little chance she might go through some radical personal development and realize her deluded sense of self and reality. I just really want her to end up happy, like reaching actual happiness which is only possible if you truly understand yourself. Then there would be plenty of jobs she would enjoy and also excel at. I feel sorry for her, which is probably because I was just like her. I went through an incredibly depressing phase when I realized how I was, but it was so much worth it. Maybe at some point this will happen to her.

I imagine she'd also try to take undue credit should one of her students get into Oxbridge or accomplish anything impressive.
Absolutely. When you are on such a level of competitiveness, seeing someone reach your own goals must be hell. You search for a culprit, then. Oxbridge was just being unfair, she just had a bad day, or the student was just overly lucky. Or at least it was just because of her excellent teaching that they managed to get in.
 
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how is she supposed to get her hogwarts letter when they don’t know their last name tho? please think for a second
Oh goodness, you are right! How would Hogwarts have ever found Ruby without knowing her real last name?
 
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Ruby just loves vegan feeeyood. Excuse my poor phonetic spelling, there is no way for me to write how she actually pronounced food.
 
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