When your concept of anarchy is just the chorus from that one Rage Against the Machine song
“Sir, I am begging you, as your doctor and as a fellow human being. Please stop mainlining extra heavy mayo and gravy for your breakfast, lunch and dinner”
“Deep breath”
I still can’t believe the bedtime abolition people aren’t doing a bit.
At this point I just naturally assume everything is a bit
Gives you quite the resistance to psychic damage
My mind is a potato with a bunch of toothpicks in it so it looks like a little porcupine
As a nocturnal person, the solution to sleep deprivation isn’t rigid bedtime enforcement, it’s making our social organizations more flexible wrt time.
There’s nothing anyone could do that could make me operate on normal people’s schedules for long stretches of time. You can’t just shoehorn neurodiverse people into neurotypical patterns.
Seems to me our work and thus school scheduling is determined by capital interests at the detriment of development & learning. How many kids would choose to wake up at 6am for school if there was any other option?
One does not exclude the other. While it is true that kids, as well as adults now we’re at it, doesn’t get enough sleep because of some weird protestant idea that it is morally virtuous to get up so early in the morning it causes you pain, it is also true that kids benefit from routines and that disrupting their circadian rhythm causes them to be tired and irritable the next day.
What about bedtimes that respects the individual needs of the child?
Yeah we’re joking around but can we all at least agree fuck homework
It’s almost always busy work. I saw a tweet that claimed homework is a way to condition kids to accept working after hours and that shit really stuck with me.
At a certain point, you get the material or you don’t. Doing several drills or being forced to show work doesn’t help.
Bourgeois school systems in general. It’s daycare with added indoctrination. Parents have no choice because they need to work ridiculous hours to keep themselves and their children from starving and their children must therefore be left in the care of teachers who are only allowed to teach a very specific curriculum designed to create a docile domesticated workforce.
The whole system is based on the myth of meritocracy that convinces the children of the respective social classes that they deserve their oppression/privilege.
The entire education system in capitalist society is designed to reinforce this dynamic.
Students and teachers have a very one sided dynamic whereby the student is denied any agency whatsoever and is treated as an empty vessel to be filled with acceptable liberal ideology.
Homework has plenty of room to be good but the way it’s implemented is a problem.
Like practicing material that you’re struggling on is generally a good idea, getting a word search because the teacher has to give homework no matter how relevant it is or else parents complain isn’t good.
And even then practice work is generally structured as just keep doing it over and over and over rather than trying to introduce problems that build up a proper understanding of whatever you’re doing.
Some education - particularly language education - really does boil down to rote repetition until the lessons sink in. Some skills - like playing an instrument or building up a certain muscle group - really is about doing it over and over again until it becomes second nature. Some education is simply about establishing a large encyclopedia of knowledge or a toolbox of techniques that you can recall at a moment’s notice. The clarity of the moment isn’t what you’re trying to establish. Its the speed and accuracy of recall that is what’s being trained.
There are ways of structuring educational programs such that people have more time to focus on particular skills efficiently. Block scheduling, for instance, allows you to spend more hours on a single task or idea building up familiarity. Immersion courses and training camps can focus your attention on a particular skill set and give you more opportunities to master it.
But a lot of education is doing a thing over and over again until you get better at it.
Pretty amazed that this is actually a conflict and not just a joke lol.
Sorry online “anarchists” are like this, anarchist comrades.
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It’s especially infuriating because arguing with people online about what’s authoritarian or not is the lamest shit ever when if you consider yourself an anarchist there’s a ton of much needed work to be done on that front right now and you need to log the fuck off.
I don’t care what is or isn’t true about China because (1) I have no way of knowing anything without learning a new language and traveling to a country I have never been to before, and (2) if any of the shit that western media says about China is true there’s literally nothing I can do about it.
What I can do is agitate and work on unionizing my workplace, I can volunteer at the FNB free kitchen a few blocks away, I can film police interactions and help with any number of local projects from community gardens to tenants organizations.
Never in any of these places does anyone get into the sort of toxic discourse that exists online, most people are there to improve their or their communities’ material conditions, and when I do have conversations with anyone from leftish libs with no real ideological stance, the kid wearing a ushanka even though it’s like 80 degrees out with a pride flag Juche pin or the boomer ML who’s dad actually met with Castro and Ho Chi Mihn (those are actual examples of people I’ve met), it’s always civil and in good faith and we all respect the fact that fixing our shit is going to require many different approaches and a combined and concerted global effort to dismantle capitalism.
:kkkanada: :ukkk: :ukkkraine: :amerikkka: :anglo-burn: :anarcho-sickle:
I don’t care what is or isn’t true about China because (1) I have no way of knowing anything without learning a new language and traveling to a country I have never been to before, and (2) if any of the shit that western media says about China is true there’s literally nothing I can do about it.
I love getting into purely tribalistic arguments about distant blurry things while we have fascist border camps, no healthcare, and no future.
Okay, but what about NAP time?
