• spiderplant@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I did but my problem is I, as many other think school should be prepare kids and young adults for life.

    And if school is meant to prepare you for adult life, it should somewhat emulate adult life in a safe setting. In which case talking about life outside is relevant.

    Alternatively you’re advocating for school to be more like prison lite where we can take control away from kids and young adults. Where they can’t decide for themselves what to wear and they need to be protected from their uges because we think they should be considered guilty before they do anything because we think they can’t resist and we refuse to teach them.

    If governments around the world can consider 16 old enough to enlist and learn how to use and be responsible for a firearm then schools should consider that age old enough and responsible enough to act appropriately around women no matter how they are dressed.

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      11 months ago

      School is a prison and pretending that it’s a bridge to the real world is not only naive it is counterproductive.

      The reason there are uniforms in prison is because there are some dangerous mofos with poor control in there. Kinda like in school. The uniforms decrease the energy level of the place.

      Not sure why we’d put the responsibility of learning self control on children while adults are treated as the creatures of limited self control they are.

      A homeless man’s a product of his environment but a fourteen year old boy who can’t concentrate on calculus because titties are bouncing in his face all day is responsible for suppressing his own sexuality in service to the mission. Is that about right?

      Adults are children and children are adults? Is that pretty much the rubric here?

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        11 months ago

        Should be called intensely_inhumane 🤣

        School shouldn’t be like prison and neither should prison tbh.

        Prison is designed as a punishment, its pretty problematic to want children to go through a similar system in their formative years, nevermimd that there is so much evidence that prison doesn’t even work and just causes worse outcomes.

        Treat someone like a criminal they will act like a criminal.

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      1 year ago

      Lol, you immediately took the thought to the extremes. How can what I said be remotely prison like 😂

      School is obviously meant to prepare one for adult life. As an adult you can’t be publicly indecent, so can you not be at school.

      Also, I agree everyone should act appropriately around everyone no matter how they are dressed.

      I didn’t understand what you meant by the firearm licence, but just so you know it is at least 18-21 minimum age with necessary courses and qualifications, around the world.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not really the extremes, it’s exactly what you were calling for. You called for uniforms which is taking agency away from young people and you said that it is the duty of schools to protect (I assume only the male) students from distractions which involves punishing the girls and assuming the boys are guaranteed to be guilty of this crime of distraction.

        Not gun lisences, im talking about joiming the military. A lot of countries have 16 or younger as enlisting age as well as children younger than that in cadets organisations.

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          11 months ago

          School is a massive fuck you to personal agency. Trying to argue for dress codes as an aspect of agency is putting lipstick on a pig.

          If you’re going to force kids to be at a place all day, you should give them some accommodations. For the boys, that’s helping them out with the distractions.

          You are definitely failing to see the two sided argument this other poster is making. It’s a really important point, and you don’t even seem to realize it’s been made.

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            11 months ago

            There’s no two sides here, the aguments about distractions and agency fall apart when you compare countries like Sweden and Denmark where they don’t have uniforms and allow the students lot more agency, against countries like the US, UK and Ireland where they infantalise their students and in the UK’s and Ireland’s case uniforms are mandatory.

            The Nordic countries have way better school performance scores.