School is the death machine — totally fucked. I know we all "
know" this, but please, I ask you, spend a moment with that nugget of truth. Dream on it if you will. Don't allow your self to idealize what school "could be". It isn't that. It is the systematic normalization of coercion, or, more directly: the way kids learn to sell their time to something they don't want to do... the beginning of their end.
Get a move on: save the little ones from that which poisons them. Say something to someone, especially if that someone has kids.
Where does the critical mass kick in? Just pull your kid out, quit your job or whatever if you must and get a parent/child business of sorts (what?)... inaction is our great weakness — the reasonableness that instructs sending your kids to school is insanity.
They are your children! And that school is a house of the dominant culture. Don't let them go to that house. Come up with something less awful. You can do it.
Home schooling is wiser than many seem to imagine. Most people I know fault home schooling for creating ignorant rednecks. This conclusion tells me more about those people's attitudes toward "rednecks" (i.e., they are trying to brag that they are more elevated culturally than a "redneck") than it tells me anything about the virtues of home schooling.
ReplyDeleteSchools are great for those who want their kids to become automatons. I guess for some, that's what life is about -- being the best Robot one can be. After all... look at the draw the military has!
Definitely, rednecks or bible folk.
ReplyDeleteSchool is absolutely crushing, I see it everyday. Yet... of course, "necessary".
Eat your spinach, and after that, let some asshole force the stupidest ideas imaginable down your throat, all while demanding you "do your work" and "act appropriately".
It's all so hideous, the righteousness of coercion and force.