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more thoughts re: yesterday afternoon's post
So let's move forward to the premise that college is bad, because it encourages a culture of excess. Either you meet and fuck a shitton of people, or you drink too much, or drop too much acid, or just overdose on drama. And if you ain't doing any of that, you're probably working way too fucking hard on classes. There are very few careers where you have to pull all-nighters, ever.
But then again, it probably goes back to high school. The reason people explode in college is because their whole life up to that point, they've had to fucking ask permission to go to the fucking bathroom. Freedom is fun! and scary.
Something needs to be done. But not for me, I'm over it, I work for a living.
But then again, it probably goes back to high school. The reason people explode in college is because their whole life up to that point, they've had to fucking ask permission to go to the fucking bathroom. Freedom is fun! and scary.
Something needs to be done. But not for me, I'm over it, I work for a living.
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The thing is I really love the idea of public schools in theory. The government offering free public education for 12/13 years is a fabulous idea and novel in some respects but it is all the dogma (like with a lot of organized religions) that puts me off. It is bull-shit, no one gets the funding they really need, no one pays attention to what really goes on. I worked in the public school system a few different times and I was just horrified by how many burned out teachers there were and they openly told me they got into the job because of the vacation time and they were waiting for their retirement which offered a pension. So if you have someone who is just cruising along many times they won't really put any effort into it.
Of course the education really isn't free. If you want to do any extra activities (especially in high school) it costs. So if a kid is poor often they are shit out of luck. The idea of making some kid's parents put out 1,000 dollars an activity seems so messed up.
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I would never send my kids to the government for "education." I don't like the job our government is doing on anything else, so why should their "education" be any different? I'm astonished by parents who blithely send their kids off to public schools and then wonder why their kids become stupid, angry, and classist. Um, maybe because they're being taught by the government?
People are idiots.
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Well I say this because I agree with some points of your opinion that the general dogma of state run schools is to encourage the existence of calm accepting masses. After all the original ideology of the public school system in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century was to create factory workers. They taught people to respect authority, to do boring tasks over and over without question and to fear a bad report. That has been shifted from the factory job to the office job or service job.
People go with it because it seems easy if you just accept it.
But there are still people who do genuinely try and actually teach kids things and how to be independent beings and think for themselves. They are few and far between.
I had an incredible teacher when I was 13. I say she was incredible because she even interested kids who normally weren't keen on what was being tossed at them. She encouraged a lot of conversation and spirit in people. I remember distinctly this one project we did (it was US history we were taking) where we spent several weeks playing as if we were colonists in early America and we started off fairly peaceful but then we got caught up in taking as much land as possible and killing Indians and what not and when everything failed in the end and people were dying in this role-playing game she kind of took us out of it and said, "look at what you are doing." We learned how easy it was to get caught up in the blind game of capitalism and colonial warring. Fascinating stuff.
It is a rare situation.
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Being a good teacher in a public school is a revolutionary act. Bless them for their forebearance, and for actually teaching their students to analyze and think. I wonder what this world would be like if ALL teachers actually, well, TAUGHT?
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I do have a lot of sympathy for many teachers because they are often held to various requirements and many don't want to do it. My Mom sorta sees this one teacher (that is a complicated situation) and he talks about how much shit he has to put up with from the school board, a community, state requirements and then the general politics from various teachers. He is a real bad-ass and works really hard to keep a lot of that away from the classroom. But at the same time it leaves him really exhausted.
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Oh, it's all just so depressing. :)
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It made me leave.
My cousin was a teacher for a number of years and she left eventually. She said, "I left because I didn't want to hate kids or other people. It got to be too much."
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My inclination is to encourage people who don't have the resources to home-school, not to breed. But of course, those are the very ones who ARE breeding. Thus, more thrown-away 6 tear-olds.
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