Been thinking about this book all goddamn day today. Fuck middle management, fuck "engineering" which is just making graphs that tell people they aren't working fast enough, fuck all the jargon corporate speak zombies insisting my job has value, it has no value. I feel like a parasite.
Steal from your employee and consider your salary corporate funding of a dual power network. IMO, any leftist with even some disposable income needs to be funding the revolution/revolutionaries. A professional class of organizers. A vanguard, if you will
Steal time. Teach Zinn instead of APUSH. Teach test taking skills instead of test material and spend the rest of the time teaching what you want. Organize on your planning time. Refuse to send kids to the disciplinarian. Take attendance and then offer a hall pass to anyone who wants to cut class. Don't fail anyone demographically likely to drop or fail out. Cover the security camera in your room with a hanging poster. Encourage adversarial readings of garbage like lord of the flies. Bring activists into your classroom as guest speakers.
Those are all great but I should have been more specific. I teach esl, so most of my work involves taking it Mad easy on mostly chill immigrants. We don’t ever fail anyone, and the attendance and participation policy of late has been top tier lax. The school treats the students very well (cash cow). The teachers however...
Anyways, at least for when I did the upper levels, I tried to get more into the weeds about shitty American /global politics but ive also been chastised for wanting to talk about the black panthers.
Been thinking about this book all goddamn day today. Fuck middle management, fuck "engineering" which is just making graphs that tell people they aren't working fast enough, fuck all the jargon corporate speak zombies insisting my job has value, it has no value. I feel like a parasite.
Steal from your employee and consider your salary corporate funding of a dual power network. IMO, any leftist with even some disposable income needs to be funding the revolution/revolutionaries. A professional class of organizers. A vanguard, if you will
i teach, so it's hard to 'steal' anything other than books, which are just as accessible online for the most part.
but i love the idea of stealing from work.
:yes-sicko:
Steal time. Teach Zinn instead of APUSH. Teach test taking skills instead of test material and spend the rest of the time teaching what you want. Organize on your planning time. Refuse to send kids to the disciplinarian. Take attendance and then offer a hall pass to anyone who wants to cut class. Don't fail anyone demographically likely to drop or fail out. Cover the security camera in your room with a hanging poster. Encourage adversarial readings of garbage like lord of the flies. Bring activists into your classroom as guest speakers.
Those are all great but I should have been more specific. I teach esl, so most of my work involves taking it Mad easy on mostly chill immigrants. We don’t ever fail anyone, and the attendance and participation policy of late has been top tier lax. The school treats the students very well (cash cow). The teachers however...
Anyways, at least for when I did the upper levels, I tried to get more into the weeds about shitty American /global politics but ive also been chastised for wanting to talk about the black panthers.
unless u own capital, ur not really a parasite on the ppl