• verbalbotanics@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    You’re not supposed to have fun. You’re supposed to learn so you can get a job that you enjoy.

    Hi, elder leftist here. The whole education system is already set up to produce obedient workers. If you don’t believe me, ask yourself how much time is spent teaching kids to organise effectively, or advocate for issues they care about. Or even just build good communication with their classmates, like how to react to bullying.

    All that matters is to follow the authority, don’t question the rules, put the things in your head that they give you and nothing else.

    The reason kids are bored in school is because the current system doesn’t address the real problems they have, so why should they care about the system.

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      1 year ago

      Their “real” problems are at most only real in that moment, and rarely end up mattering later, but even so, the responsibility falls on the students and their parents, not the school. School is here for you to learn the basics so that you can function as an adult. Your field of interest and its focus comes after that. More often than not, whether the student can pursue their interests depends on if the core education was sufficient or not.

      But also, learning how to organize, identifying and addressing bullying, communication and encouraging study of personal interest were top priorities in all schools I went to from elementary throughout highschool, but then again, I grew up in Sweden and cannot speak for other countries. Nevertheless, students (me included) always complained about school.