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Aella
@Aella_Girl
some ppl responding are like 'but aella ur childhood was abnormal, this isn't actually a societal default' no, *most parents* just go and send their kids to school, which i find to be the biggest quietly accepted thing we'll one day as a civilization look back on with horror
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I think most of my issues from my childhood stem from parents treating me like a thing they're supposed to make obey them as opposed to a real person with preferences that matter but like, this seems to be the societal default for all parenting, not just mine
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@Aella_Girl
we have *so many memes* about school being good. ppl love it for nostalgia reasons, ppl elevate it for moral reasons, ppl view it as a necessary part of a functioning society imo this is all a cope
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@Aella_Girl
(fwiw i dont think *all school* is roughly tantamount to child abuse, like it's possible to intentionally design a thing we would recognize as a 'school' that is not abusive, but most of current schooling is)
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@Aella_Girl
"aella its ridiculous to view it as child abuse, i went through school and it was fine" yea if u go to a country where its normal to beat your kids and u tell any of the adults 'beating your kids is child abuse,' they'll be like 'naw i was beat and it was good for me'
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@Aella_Girl
if u present to me an adult from this civilization who insists their schooling was fine, i will believe you that u are not using a framework that views schooling as bad (and there's some ways this is beneficial!) but this doesn't mean we shouldn't change it!
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