Second day of my mentions blowing up and I regret snarking at this person, who is correct. I shouldn't have overstated my point like that. It would have been better if I'd focused on the other part of my claim: that the system is harmful, and teachers are agents of the system.https://twitter.com/DrugGovoruna/status/1475246241130762240 …
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The Friedman/Hayek point holds: Parents (on average, but overwhelmingly so) have both stronger interests in and better knowledge of their children's well-being. Moronic, superstitious, abusive parents *exist*, but are also spectres manufactured to justify progressive ideology.
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The marginal malefactor is centered to justify the exercise of power over the masses. The dream of teachers as missionaries of enlightenment, uplifting and unifying the People, turns out to be mass prisons for children when implemented.
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When I mention the way school impacts children's mental health, people always assume I'm talking about bullying. And yeah, bullying sucks. But the bullies aren't the ones forcing kids to sit in desks taking notes about stuff they don't care about for 7 hours a day.
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Sometimes I feel like I must be crazy. It's like all the other adults have forgotten what it's like to be insanely bored for most of every day. We just accept the suffering as an inevitable part of life. But I don't want that for my kids.
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school was the worst part of my entire life 7th and 8th grades involved more or less daily physical assault the rest was pretty safe, and only involved emotional and intellectual wounding
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