Like it's mainly just an excuse for parents to not expose their kids to political stuff they don't like?

  • ElChango [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    some sort of capitalist machine

    Yeah, in the US...that's exactly what it is. Public schooling was institutionalized here for 1 reason - to create cogs for the machine. And this is why today, you have places like TN who recently passed a law FORBIDDING any school district to go to remote learning - in the middle of a fucking pandemic - because not only do schools provide cogs for the machine, they also provide subsidized daycare so that parents aren't home caring for their kids.

    Maybe it's different abroad, but here public schools are not some beacon of shining light for the labor movement

    • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is an ahistorical take considering public education was won by the labour movement. Of course public schools have been attacked and/or controlled by the state to push its own goals, capitalists do that with fucking everything.

      TN who recently passed a law FORBIDDING any school district to go to remote learning

      That's a great example of the state intentionally attacking the education system, not schools / teachers being inherently bad. Public schools are viewed by conservatives as a threat to their goals for a reason.

      Chuds have been working to dismantle the educational system for at least the last 40 years. I know a bunch of teachers and they're all either progressive or full-on leftists.

      Looking at a social system in decay from attacks by conservatives and deciding the solution is that we should destroy it is exactly what they want you to do.