Look Proletariat!! A secret admirer left me a love note on our white board. They apparently believe you can't think for yourselves. Don't worry, I know you can. I simply report, you decide.
Oh, well. If you’re a teacher, let me step back. I’d say we have a crisis of grit, a consequence of people realizing the future is dire.
But that’s just propaganda, right?
Oh, and a crisis of proofreading. 🤡
@AckTeacher Maybe America needs a jobs program instead of white collar emphasis on technocratic degrees. I don’t think your politics reconcile with that well, tho.
Ooops. Didn’t mean to point out a contradiction.
First off, it’s demeaning and insulting to assume kids can’t think for themselves
Second if their brains “aren’t developed” then anything is propaganda no matter the politics.
Third, “it’s starting to changes homeschool” isn’t English. If you teach, you should be fired, no?
Kids think for themselves? Their brains aren’t any near fully developed. If we allow our kids to be used as political tools, that opens for all involved to go after kids. Right now republicans are still leave kids out of it. But it’s starting to changes home school, going after teachers unions- these are very powerful movements that are well funded. I say leave kids alone and move on.
@RichardGrenell “Just move” is such a sad demand. No I g is hard and expensive. It’s much more reasonable to try and move the needle where you live than to “just move”
@AckTeacher@richmintz Counterpoint: kids are the target of all political organization and when they think and act in solidarity with each other , it’s good.
It’s almost like you’re threatened that those kids in Waukegan can actually think for themselves. That’s what scares you.
My scary classroom social experiment demonstrating how tyrannies arise from democracies:
I gave a bunch of extra credit tickets to the first few students to arrive in class, then everyone else received 1-2 tickets.
The kids that came into class last were outraged by the “injustice” of those that came first getting a greater reward.
There were no rules or directions for this day in class. I just told them I’d act as an enforcer of whatever they decided to do in the 47 minutes.
The girl circled in red- Emily- was a genius.
She used her charisma and charm to court the majority of her peers that had less coupons, and played off their resentment of the minority that had earned more tickets for arriving to class early.
In the allotted time she convinced her peers that if they voted to give her absolute power, she would confiscate the 40+ coupons held by the minority and distribute them equally.
The minority of students were frustrated, but powerless against the majority vote.
Emily was elected to a “supreme ruler” position, and as promised she confiscated all of the tickets from the minority of students that arrived to class first.
That’s when things got interesting.
She kept the vast majority of tickets for herself, and distributed a few to some of her friends.
It was a microcosm of what has happened historically time and time again, and the danger our republic faces.
I asked the students to write a reflection on how they now viewed unrestrained majority-rules democracy, and their opinions has definitely changed from the day prior.
@JesseKellyDC “I support athletes based on their politics” is the most baby brain take ever
I know other nationalists in history that ostracized athletes bc of their unwillingness to support the regime. 😬
@Pc32710@ImBearingDown1 They don’t hit him like that bc he ducks as he’s supposed to. It’s almost like they are trained to avoid that hit (see Caleb, purdy, etc.) the issue is with love not being able to anticipate hit and bad body control… aka soft