Kids are hardwired to love learning, they will never stop asking questions and exploring the world.

Schools quash that curious spirit. They put kids in a boring, prison-like, highly regimented environment that seeks to teach discipline and obedience to the status quo. Don't think, accept your role in the capitalist machine. If you are bullied, no one will help you, but if you fail to complete work you will be punished. Most of all, get used to not owning most of your time.

Take note of this and try to rekindle your child-like curiousity and love of learning. Ask yourself, do you still have questions about the universe you forgot to ask as a child? Read about the planets, the stars, microbes, machines. But most importantly, do it at your own pace and do it because you still have questions. Not to pass some test, but for you.

      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I read your comment on my way to school, in the midst of a massive outbreak, where more than half the staff and students are out, as the city government continues to feed my body into the gears of the economy to lubricate them with my blood. And I get to read you calling me a cop. Unironically go fuck yourself

        • effervescent [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Meat grinder gang. What’s the over under on us staying open through the entire Omicron wave?

            • effervescent [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              Mine seems to be hiding behind the fact that a lot of the kids out are ones where unexplained absences are already a thing

        • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          In the midst of a massive outbreak the members of your profession have not even considered a strike to save thr lives of their charges, the lives of the famies involved or even the their very own.

          You are a good one, in a barrel of bad ones.

            • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Fair. However they have one of the last few good unions and they are are honor bound to set a positive moral example for thr future generations.

              If anyone vould be doing it, it's them. Infact, many of them have been doing it and it has been working. However most of the professon are not living up to the samdard

              • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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                3 years ago

                IDK what you're talking about. A lot of teachers don't have unions. I do, but it's terrible. And frankly you have no idea what kind of organizing goes on. When COVID started we forced the schools to shut down with wildcat sick outs that the progressive caucus I'm a member of helped organize. I organized my entire chapter from scratch to get them strike ready a year ago, and then our leadership sold us out.

                Teachers are workers, full stop. And like most workers they are poorly organized if organized at all. Their conditions match the conditions of other workers in this country. We're not cops just because they aren't doing what you (and I) would like them to do.

          • effervescent [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Don’t come in here criticizing teacher’s unions if you don’t even follow their activity. There have been unions all over the country getting classes to go remote by threatening strikes. Many of them in environments where public employees striking is illegal. My union is currently negotiating something similar and there are rumors of a sickout if they don’t follow through.