[–] Brigbjones 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Bullshit, no one uses chalk anymore.
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[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I liked the sound of chalk over markers.
[–] 11419046? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Actually, it's a jobs program for adults not talented enough to make it in the real world but still have a work ethic and can show up. Plus you can organize these adults into a voting bloc that is pretty reliable in turning out to the polls.
The children? Don't be silly. They don't matter, they are there to justify the adults' existence in that system. To the extent that the kids are imprisoned, it's mainly to make the adults' working lives easier. After all, it's just a jobs program. If you could find a way to pay those "teachers" to stand in front of an empty room and do what they do, the world would be better off, IMHO. Sometimes people make noises about exactly what happens to the kids and whether that is healthy or not, but soon the bitching quiets down again and the charade continues much as it always has.
Parents who care and parents with money send their children to other kinds of schools, where the teachers aren't on a jobs program and where the children are supposed to actually be trained in things. Mainly so they can grow up to be slave drivers, instead of slaves. But a slave driver is just as much a slave as the slaves he's driving, which is something very few of them ever figure out.
First off, a lot of schools don't use chalk anymore.
Second, a lot of those backpacks are gifts from charities and communities for children who need a lot of supplies.
And lastly - anyone who would agree with this, or think like this, is a waste of fucking skin and shouldn't have gone to school anyway. Money was wasted trying to teach you. Your shitty parent(s) should have to pay the state and fed back for the money they spent for you to occupy a classroom.
School is meant to teach you the basics and help inspire you towards whatever you think you want to do with yourself when you grow up. It's become standardized and dumbed down so that a healthy, intelligent child is only as smart or as fast as the unhealthiest, least intelligent child, but it is still the starting point to allow children time to learn and be children.
Morons who think school is such a terrible place for them to waste their day should have to go get a job. Homework and classwork in a room with your peers are too hard for your brain to handle? Sure thing - we need highways and beaches cleaned. We need meat and vegetable farmers. The world is your oyster, you little shit, so don't let school hold you back. /smh
[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha [S] ago (edited ago)
What do remember from grades 7-12? Is it anything you could not learn from one year online? The vast majority of my school work was reading. I don't know if you know this, but books aren't exclusive to schools. Abraham Lincoln had less than one year of formal schooling. He read books to become a lawyer.
School != Education
What schools teach are factory worker social norms. Line up, respond to bells, sit down, do your piece work, eat lunch quickly, listen to arbitrary authority, and don't go pee unless we give you permission.
You may have needed it, but I sure didn't.
Also
It's become standardized and dumbed down so that a healthy, intelligent child is only as smart or as fast as the unhealthiest, least intelligent child, but it is still the starting point to allow children time to learn and be children.
You made my point for me.
You may have needed it, but I sure didn't.
I think you needed it more than you realize.
What do remember from grades 7-12? Is it anything you could not learn from one year online?
Yes. Those are the years of socializing and mild exposure to real world issues. Where you learn just because you wish your acne and fat would go away doesn't make it happen. Where you are supposed to start realizing the world isn't fair and someday you are going to have to feed and clothe and dress YOURSELF, without anyone carrying you.
What schools teach are factory worker social norms. Line up, respond to bells, sit down, do your piece work, eat lunch quickly, listen to arbitrary authority, and don't go pee unless we give you permission.
We don't live in the socialist country you are describing, and a lot of us are fighting not to. I'm so sorry your snowflake ass has to follow rules in the publicly funded building the community is paying for so you can fucking read and write and get a job and give back to the community the way it tried to give to you. You're so unique and special. No kid ever whined about having to go to school. And no adult ever whined about having to go to work.
What is happening in our world where people have to do things they don't want to do to eat and have shelter? What a world! What a world!
No one gives two shits about you beyond what you are able to give back. No one. It's being human. Complaining about having a schedule and having to follow directions while you are a child instead of getting a job to help support your family is a privilege that children in other countries don't have, so stop acting like a spoiled little baby.
Also? You are the point. The people bringing down the class average tend to be the ones whining about how school sucks.
[–] MillstoneNecklace 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Government indoctrination centers for everyone!
[–] acheron2012 0 points 12 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago
Not true. The US Supreme Court has ruled that you cannot do to prison inmates the things you can do to school students.
[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha [S] 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Prevent from using the toilet
Prescribe drugs to moderate behavior
Suspend you, then arrest you for truancy
Restrict your outdoor time, less than prisoners
Mandate a minimum level of comprehension with propaganda materials
And after all that, some prisoners are better educated than University students.