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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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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The greatest gift of home-education is that it can instil a love of learning that is a lot rarer in the school system.
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The rows of desks all facing the same direction is "Rote learning". Its factory productivity consciousness. I know Professor Marshall McLuhan had his class in a circle to encourage exploration of ideas.
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Probably the hardest one to get over would be this: Relationship to learning.
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*the infamous waffle house bill hicks bit goes here*
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