Submitted by Majrelende in AskRaddle
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emma wrote
mass shootings
videl wrote
curriculum
OdiousOutlaw wrote
Exams, quizzes, tests, etc.
Angela wrote
Standardized tests are the worst creation.
shanc wrote
Teachers
surreal wrote
religion/history lessons
rot wrote
why history?
OdiousOutlaw wrote
In my experience, a LOT of school history is propaganda and outright lies. Columbus "discovering" America and MLK's views stand out in my memory.
rot wrote
incorrect/whitewashed history then
OdiousOutlaw wrote
Exactly.
celebratedrecluse wrote
The problem I see is that history is a tool of power. So whatever the context of the power relationships in an institution, the teaching of history will naturally mold itself to those power relationships in a distributed way.
I think that history should be taught, but maybe in a different format than school. Perhaps instead of reading textbooks assigned in a classroom by a centralized authority (teacher), an alternative might be to have students learn history in the context of theater, writing, or the creative arts in general. For example, late Howard Zinn worked on this with adaptations of the People's History of the United States for stage, for graphic novel, etc. Make the study so dynamic and interesting, and centering of subaltern voices, that it is difficult/impossible to render history taught in such a way through a fascist lens. This is what it means to me, to lesson-plan for unavoidable presence of fascism immanent in authoritarian structures.
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celebratedrecluse wrote
Sure, I think that's really cool!
However what I'm trying to say is that the methods by which history is taught actually reinforces these authoritarian tendencies within mainstream historical pedagogy. It's not that I think it's impossible to teach history from a radical perspective(s), within a traditional school setting. It's just that I think it's more difficult than it needs to be because of the structure it's emplaced in. I think people should continue trying to teach history within schools from a radical perspective, for sure, I just also think that radical historians would benefit from cooperating with, or at least coexisting with, unschooling/deschooling efforts like I was talking about.
Catsforfun wrote
air conditioning
rot wrote
youre trying to kill the kids?
Catsforfun wrote
no, the AC is torture. Fuck AC
rot wrote
what kinda ac is that? school would have been hell without heating/cooling
Catsforfun wrote
the kind where its way too cold all the time. The kind where I put on a sweater to go inside the building.
BrowseDuringClass1917 wrote
Lockers, they useless
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mofongo wrote
On gym days we have to wear our gym clothes all day long. There's no shower room either. Only now can I imagine how awful it must be go into a classroom with 50 sweaty teenagers.
BrowseDuringClass1917 wrote (edited )
Oh damn, we have gym lockers here thank god. That sounds nasty
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ploopt wrote
Weird - my school, also for security reasons, took the opposite approach. After Columbine happened, we were no longer allowed to carry bookbags. We had to scurry back and forth to our lockers all the time. They also put up a single camera at the main entrance. The security state slowly but inexorably establishes itself.
celebratedrecluse wrote
School