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Nov 2, 2022

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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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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(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)

"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'

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!

honestly the best argument for most school im aware of rn is that it functions as a babysitting place for parents who need to work but we should at least admit that and optimize *for* that, instead of systematically destroying our youth's relationship to learning

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The solution will involve more funding. Right now, classrooms are overcrowded, teachers earn very little, are expected to work their asses off while maintaining discipline, and are in the firing line of irate parents. This is a recipe for failure.