"If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a fundamental myth of the American public school system: that before the proliferation of compulsory, tax-payer funded schooling, Americans were ignorant and mostly illiterate."

"Authority will always try to convince you how helpless and bereft you would be without the authority. Americans were neither illiterate nor ignorant before forced schooling. Compulsory, tax-payer funded education has not been an overall improvement for the population, despite the billions of dollars and wasted hours spent on it. To claim Americans need government schools to learn is a grab for power and control, and ignores centuries’ worth of data and lived experience."

#Education #School #Literacy

btw, if you're working at a #school district, how would you like to be an #network #administrator with no logs? you don't know what that student is doing, you don't know if the filter is working, you don't even know the giolocation?
you know who's logged in, but you don't know what they're doing?
that's my school right now with me, they are totally blocked thanks to a few #firewall rules.
it's funny, because firewalls are supposed to do filtering, but we can tackle firewalls using our own firewalls.
in this case, their firewall is contentkeeper and my firewall is cloud flare gateway and i'm winning because I know exactly what i'm doing

@kkarhan wait who is Arian? also, yes, and the problem with these #k12 #cipa #filtering #software is that they don't have #security pe0ple who can test vulnerabilities.
they only test what's required in the CIPA guidelines.

not only that, these can seriously cut funding for #school #district s because they don't just attack a part of the filter, EG via a #proxy or #vpn but rather, attack holes in the filtering systems directly

He’d already decided that his daughter would not participate when, to his relief, the #Tulsa #PublicSchools, a district that is majority #Black & #Latino, & several other #Oklahoma #school districts announced that they would not comply with the dictate. For that, they now face a state #investigation for failing to commemorate the activist who Walters said was a champion of free speech, civil debate & conservative & Christian values.

My daughter is starting high school (USA). She's brought home 4 things I am "required" (?) to sign. 3 of them are just normal lists of classroom rules. The 4th is for gym... Ugh. It is every bad gym teacher stereotype spewed across four pages of text, with lots of all-caps, plenty of phrases like "you WILL...", "NO EXCEPTIONS", "you will be ABSOLUTELY SILENT", etc.

Most of the rules and "expectations" are pretty reasonable but the angry, accusatory tone is unhelpful, and the missed-class rules are openly punitive rather than educational.

So I wrote a note to that effect above my signature, and clarified that my signature meant I had read the document.

Kid was concerned about my annotation. I offered to tell the gym teacher I lost the document and request a new one, but kid decided to just let it ride.

Many thoughts, including

• This is how you make most students hate PE
• This is how you keep negative #stereotypes alive (I'm actually aware that Not All Gym Teachers, but this doesn't help)
• This is how you tell the kids there are two tiers of students: the athlete ingroup, who are used to this kind of communication and know this gym teacher (who is also a coach) will be sympathetic to them despite the strident tone, and everyone else, the outgroup.

This school is generally pretty good, but there are always issues, usually of exactly this kind: a subset of teachers or administrators treating all kids like criminals regardless of their behavior.

#PhysicalEducation #school #education #teenagers #parent

#education #loans #bankrupt #morals #ethics #principles #classwar #ausgov #politas #school #capitalism #fascism #oppression #repression #slavery #slave #slaves

#Florida moves to end all #school #vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so

Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, & outrageously likened them to #slavery.

#Ladapo said Wednesday that every vaccine mandate “drips with disdain & slavery.”

#PublicHealth #science #medicine #vaccines #ConspiracyTheories #RFKJr #Trump #AntiVax #idiocracy

School is back in session, and all the kids will be out and about. They won't all stay in the crosswalks like this deer, and visibility may be lowered in some areas due to smoke... please be safe!

#firstdayofschool #firstday #school #kids #crosswalk #deer #visibility #smoke #besafe #driving

The Second of Bleptember brought back the morning school run into this doggo's routine. And while she was glad of the extra walk, she also seemed glad of the opportunity to lie down in a quiet, child-free hallway upon our return home.

#note #bleptember #dog #dogs #school #children

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/09/02/bleptember-2025-02/

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A champagne-coloured French Bulldog lies on a rug, with her tongue sticking out almost enough to touch the floor.