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Tbh a more communal form of raising children even if the parents still are and act like the parents would reduce some of the harm caused by the nuclear family
There’s still power exercised towards the children. I don’t think even foucault put into question the utility of authority, since it’s clearly identified as the only means to ensure discipline and transmit knowledge. This is a woke salad, a dumb regurgitation of something genuinely insightful, the very structure of the traditional family structure has been plenty questioned before and for good reason, but nobody has framed it in such stupid terms, until now.
Sorry you had bad experiences with teachers. But I grew up with a emotionally abusive mom and had mostly good experiences with adults who weren’t my family. I strongly think that children having a variety of close relationships with adults outside their family can help mitigate abuse, by increasing the likelihood of disclosure and showing a child what a healthy relationship with an adult looks like. I’ve talked with plenty of other people with parental trauma who agree that some degree of lessening parental domination of children by increasing the number of non-relative adults in their life is good and healthy for kids.
That said, the kind of absolute power that teachers have in classrooms to do that kind of thing that you experience does need to be changed as well. For one thing, I don’t think a single adult should be in charge of classrooms.
I agree wholeheartedly, but at the end of the day there will always be an adult/child hierarchy and comparing that dynamic to systemic racism or capitalism is quite the stretch. There’s better ways to critique family dynamics
The heirarchy of childhood is not unjust, unlike racism, capitalism etc. but it is still a worthwile part of growing up to allow a child to question, push the boundries of, and subvert the heirarchy, if for no onther reason than to learn how to do it when the heirarchy is unjust.
Whoever hears “Imagine, walking down the street and every single person is a stranger” and thinks this is a good thing legitimately needs to be processed in a reeducation facility.
A lot of people have worked hard to leave their small reactionary communities where everyone knows each other for cities full of strangers.
:amber: “Communities are reactionary.”
