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re: this there should be two clarifications:
1. "school/hospitals/work is like prison" is unnecessarily redundant when you could say prison is like or reflects the world with its absolute schedule, dehumanization, and self-referentiality (nothing exists outside of the prison) https://twitter.com/acab_yall/status/1328513963022118912
1. "school/hospitals/work is like prison" is unnecessarily redundant when you could say prison is like or reflects the world with its absolute schedule, dehumanization, and self-referentiality (nothing exists outside of the prison) https://twitter.com/acab_yall/status/1328513963022118912
2. if there is a major difference between teachers and prison guards it is that the teacher is often more relatable to us in that they tend to oscillate between perpetrator and victim within the institution they occupy.
on the left this manifests as an intense frustration towards upper administration among teachers that realize public education has become (or always has been) entangled with the reproduction of modern misery but still want to leverage their position to "be a positive force"
one doesn't have to look far to find other cases of people willingly occupying (and in the case of teachers often trapping) themselves in positions of local power in order to apply often meager pressure towards internal reform. every police force today likely has a similar story.
i do really think it is a reflection of many people's creepy attitude towards kids as "the future" or "blank slates" which encourages endless optimism towards "the good" teachers whilst comparatively ignoring the independence and power of the student to be self determining
there are kids that do not want to go to school with all their hearts, that dread it, that are being beat down day in and out, and not only are they compelled to, everyone in their lives think they are doing them a favor. so fucked man
