Important point in this book: if kids are subjected on the daily to heavy guard/police presence in schools, surveillance equipment, sniffer dogs & searches, they’re in some sense being actively groomed to accept as normal the conditions of a police statehttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1040314249250189312 …
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Or perhaps they’ll hate it and become the greatest critics of such policies.
Love it or hate it, what’s normal isn’t jarring, and it doesn’t draw as much attention as the novel or unusual. We don’t get to consciously shape our own “normal,” and we have a limited ability to assess it from the inside
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It’s jarring when they leave school. Having now tasted freedom, I have a strong bias against returning to a school-like environment myself. I can viscerally feel the contrast between worried exam prep and excited, genuine curiosity.
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Familiarity, not only contrast, often encourages change. Intimately familiar with their parents’ flaws, children often resolve to be different.
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