I think it's hard to convey the extent to which 'school culture' leaks into *everything*. I was homeschooled, and so when I got into the world 'school culture' was glaringly obvious. Thread of examples:
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3. Relationship to learning. School-culture sees learning as a job - you go in, turn in the paperwork and if you do well enough you get a promotion (grades, good college). I can't tell you the number of times ppl asked me "what course is that for" when I was reading BOOK FOR FUN
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4. School imagery *everywhere*. There's aisles in grocery stores dedicated to it, there's an ad season for it. Yellow busses, apples and teachers and desks and hand raising. In my world, this is a foreign language, but it's saturated in tiny ways everywhere we look.
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5. Bullying. Even if it's not outright, there's still toxic relationship norms rampant in school culture that are considered default, normal, not-weird. People will laugh about the one time everyone outed and made fun of them to their crush like this is just how the world works.
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It's hard to really sum up the extent to which this happens. It's in tiny references - "playing hooky", "drop out", "teacher's pet", "cram", "saved by the bell", "who do you sit with at lunch", "recess", etc. - that exist *everywhere*. We're swimming in it.
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Rites of passage marking a transition into 'adult world' seem pretty widespread (Joseph Campbell mentions a few in THWATF, often coming with a sharp change in group membership). Artificial, sure, but predating high-school
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I've been contemplating this lately - the idea of spending most of childhood with a large cohort of kids your exact age, with minimal interaction with older, younger, or adults. And such a recent phenomenon. Even earlier schools were one room for various ages.
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Something montessori tries to recreate putting kids of multiple grades together.
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This one is anthropologically normal. Having specific "now you're an adult" moments is a typical societal thing, even if the child prisons make it a bit more extreme. (whats less normal is "teenagers", most cultures jumped straight from kid to young adult)
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It's normal to make a firm distinction, but they're normally less segregated, I think?
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This is something I could go on and on about. Growing up in a rural town is was much less of a thing due to scale - just likelihood of knowing teachers from other parts of your life (like Church) & knowing everyone’s parents & but at huge schools?
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Plus, you lose the leveling influence of adults. It’s like the inmates running the asylum. All your good advice and influence is gonna come from other kids.
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