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

    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.