Today she pulled me aside and said that she disagreed with what I had to say. I asked why and she said that she believed what defectors had wrote in their biographies (she didn't name any specific books). I didn't actually get to counter that (or respond to anything really) beyond the documentary (Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang) I linked in my email which she didn't watch apparently. She was respectful I guess. Should I respond with a critique of Escape from Camp 14 and In Order to Live or should I just brush it off?
You do not realize how xenophobic the average American teenager is. Fascism creates angst and rage and turns it towards outsiders, and high school in America is the prime place this takes place.
They also always love anyone that can own the teacher.
Depends upon the teacher, topic, and student.
I teach high schoolers political stuff all the time...
One of my best times in school was converting a teacher to Marxism before I was even there. Our grade 12 end of year social studies paper was an opinion piece about the fundamental nature of competition. Dude took me aside after class, I thought I was in trouble and he told me that it acrually changed his view of the world. 17 year old me was star eyed cause this was the most stuffed shirt teacher I ever had and everyone else was terrified of him. We got along well beforehand regardless but that was the biggest boost I ever felt.
Now I'm just sad thanks dawg
I think that a leftist classmate educating them might help them avoid falling down that path. When I was a highschooler I was able to get a bunch of my friends off of far right radicalisation pipelines and now many of them are communists
I know plenty of teachers whom teach across the 12 grades who say otherwise.
My friends in education think I'm right. Maybe it's due to specific material conditions of our communities, idk.