Posted on 07/31/2021 3:18:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
As I grew up in a California suburb that was largely colonized in the latter half of the 20th century with the hope of many upwardly mobile young families, I am often reminded by fellow Californians of my good fortune in spending those years between cradle and teenage wasteland nourished and sheltered by privilege. Up until high school, I even had the rare benefit of experiencing pre–Proposition 13 California public schools, a Golden Age of Education rivaling Athens, the Renaissance, or Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Self-Love. When I confess how I have trouble remembering what or if I learned much of anything during this utopian period, the wistfulness of the young Californian liberals turns to disappointment, disbelief, and rage. Yet cancel culture's recent occupation of our zeitgeist has given me a renewed appreciation of the advanced multi-year curriculum that I received during that time when occupants saturated the school with the insatiable primal energy of the id while adults were not looking. Almost all I really needed to know about witch-hunting I learned in middle school.
Witch-hunting is the biomimicry of junior high school at its peak Lord of the Flies. When I left my relatively uniform class stratum outside school, I found inside those hallowed walls of lower education a caste system so rigid and unforgiving that third-world dictatorships could complain of cultural appropriation. A hierarchy formed based on fickle pubescent popularity in a system of unearned privilege for the higher strata and soul-crushing oppression for the lower strata innocents, intimidated into a silence that prevented the truth from reaching both the apathetic guardians inside and the concerned ones outside. The fawning and fearful mobs were happy to join in the persecution to improve their own position in the hierarchy,
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I found inside those hallowed walls of lower education a caste system so rigid and unforgiving ‘…
Iv seen this depicted endlessly in movies and TV but I’ve never seen anything even remotely like it in real life.
When the writer started talk about the strict teen caste system, I thought “this must he written by a woman,” and looked up at the author, and there it was. Many women have a special vicious side to them.
Men who act that way will be quickly classified, correctly, as bullies or abusers, but women of the type seem to exercise it fearlessly.
I quit ready after the 12th word. She’s a weirdo. We didn’t “COLONIZE” subdivisions in the latter 20th century. Please. What a nut.
Darn autocorrect or fat fingering.
Ready=reading
Her very annoying writing style made me cheer for the bullies.
And there _was_ a group that didn’t *genuflect* either publicly or privately.
I was immunized when I realized how avidly the details of the make-out sessions of the two most popular students were spread throughout the school. They could only have come 1) from the participants themselves or 2) their *best friends*. The result was a barrage of degrading snickers that broke out whenever either of them was present.
No one was immune, so the status didn’t really exist and many of us were forever done with the entire concept of *popularity* and the resultant caste system.
Psychobabble.
John Taylor Gatto notes how a vast economic system irrevocably committed to the current schooling tyranny has an unreleasable deathlock on our children’s future. The arbitrary, capricious schooling policies come down from a vertical pipeline with such ingrained anonymity that school administrators have not the slightest idea from where they originate. School unions, part of the centralized master planning from the turn of the 19th century, constantly diminish the interests of teachers as ever increasing numbers of non-instructional classified personnel, who exercise no direct educational function for students’ benefit, are continually hired, padding school-district employment rolls so that the expense per student continually rises with continually diminishing educational effectiveness, each new hire contributing union dues with no bargaining or interest advantage to the teachers who actually manage children, resulting in continually diminishing compensation. Mr. Gatto calls schooling the largest public works project in history, the largest business in America and probably in the world. Textbook companies, testing companies, schooling paraphernalia and school-lunch suppliers–to diminish the autonomy of families and make the isolated individual dependent on government–educationist universities and the federal government, a gobsmacking breadth of interlocking economic and political interest-sectors, together constitute an immovable, self-interested institutional block to improving the prospects for children. The corporate consumerist and human resources management stakes in schooling have the effect that if children were ever to be taught self-reliance, autonomy and free thinking–public schools and colleges are far more rigidly doctrinaire than parochial-religious schools–if young people were ever to attain independence from the constant requirement of being taught what to think and minute oversight of what they do at all times, in schooling and employment, there would be a terrible crash in the existing, dependency-based economy. Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt asserts that if your children are undergoing standardized testing, whether in public, private, charter schools or even home-schools, they are under the system’s control. The only escape would be to go off the grid, something that is largely impossible under a worldwide control hierarchy that has turned away from enforcing its mandates through conflict to finessing its dictates in the most subtle social control system in human history, by fostering addictive divertissments to keep perpetual children of all ages constantly distracted, the calculated addiction-fostering of the social-media interface now seamlessly integrated with Skinnerian operant conditioning for lifelong cognitive tyranny, delivered with “wrap-around”/”pipeline services” in The Community School.
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