• Vodulas [they/them]
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    48 months ago

    Mmmhmm. I would even go a step further and say it is purposely skewed to getting kids used to be a cog in capitalism.

    • mozzOP
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      58 months ago

      Almost as if 🥲

      They did an experiment where they had high school teachers go through a normal day from the perspective of the kids: Go run to this new location whenever the bell rings and tells you to, limited time to eat and then a bell rings and you have to hustle to your new location and sit still and listen quietly to this guy up in front talk, and then get tested on whether you can repeat the information back and you have to do everything you’re told in exactly the way you’re told to. They did it for 1 day and they were absolutely shocked at the experience, like WTF this is awful I have anxiety now, I don’t even know how these kids can handle it.

      • @sqgl@beehaw.org
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        18 months ago

        “Absolutely shocked”? Were these teachers all home schooled in their youth or something?

        • mozzOP
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          38 months ago

          I think this is what I was remembering - it was one teacher and a little less formal than what I remembered.

          To answer your question though, my guess would be that they’d just adapted to it as kids without realizing how messed up it was from a free adult person perspective. That’s just guessing though.