finally looking at school trauma and jesus fucking christ man
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my entire relationship to the concept of achievement seems to be school-shaped
it’s like i always lowkey feel like i’m “failing” but also i don’t wanna do any of my “homework”
fuuuuuuuck thiiiiis
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love how i turn everything i do into a test i grade myself on up to and including “self-improvement” 🤢
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literally just repeating to myself “i’m not in school anymore” and then going through every school i’ve attended and telling myself i’m not in that school anymore and it’s a wild ride, my shoulders are doing some funny things
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gotta say this explains a lot about my “burn down the schools” tweets though, in retrospect there was always a suspiciously large amount of emotional energy there
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the part where they’re prisons mostly
short easy version is abolish grades and make all classes optional, then there are wackier versions depending on what other parts of society need to simultaneously be changed
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100%. Schools are socialization panopticons that punish heterodox thought modalities
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