actually it wasn’t just me. she had tenure, and she was infamous. she would give so much detention that the detention population would exceed her home room population. she would give detention to people in the hallway walking to class.
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anyway, after the nth time this happened, i was like, this is bullshit, i’m locked in here, but i wonder if the doors are actually physically unlocked. so i waited till she was distracted and then slipped out, and checked the doors. they were unlocked! i bolted, hid behind a tree
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and then walked home. my parents, ex world traveling hippies, did not send me back. they decided i didn’t have to, i was ahead a year anyway, and that i was just going to school for recess (for friends, essentially), anyway, a function it no longer provided
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at some point we found out that the tests they had been hiding from a couple weeks before i quit said i was in the 99.97th percentile as scored for uni entrants, or whatever, so we were like, huh, maybe i should just go to university i was too young for the GED, but not the SAT!
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before that, school was books, essays, horseback riding, 3d modeling and programming class at the community college. and lots of videogames; even making some with map editors and engines, little things
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i can’t imagine the level of checked out i would be if i had to suffer through 7-12 at the traditional pace. it is almost unimaginable. like a prison type experience, maybe. this is literally the time you have maximum neurons and are pruning them, and synapses. use it or lose it
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the brain damage inflicted on young people who are forced to waste their talents on doing the exact same thing as their age peers at the same rate is unimaginable. it is maybe the costliest thing that we do to human capital. and the fact is everyone has talents & interests
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remote school *could have been* and should have been an opening up of education into a lifelong process of pursuing one’s interests, refining one’s skills, and learning about the world around you instead, zoom and ai enabled cameras monopolized your attention & gaze. even worse!
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we had a pandemic before, you know, the schooling solution was books, and outdoor classes when the weather abided. (and sweaters!) i honestly fucking weep for this generation. they have all of this technology and it is being put to use melting their brains.
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What technological brain melt are you referring to, what measures of brain function do you believe are damaged by tech, and what evidence do you have for this?
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gaze track and hours of zoom, and social media in many forms, more potently tiktok i don’t have any hard evidence except the kids hate the gaze software and would too, ( they rarely hate actually learning) anecdotally, everyone (not just kids) finding it hard to read and focus
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