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Penny Arcade - Comic - In Local News
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Penny Arcade - Comic - In Local News
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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No, no, those things all sound like OUR fault. Definitely the internet.
False equivalence is so tedious. Do better.
-Tycho Brahe
Only thing you left out was that it totally wasn't because they had a massively exaggerated period of school disruption exacerbated by people who adamantly refused to take even the most basic public health precautions.
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What in the fuck does that even mean? Teachers fucking died because the school system was/is being run by a bunch of corrupt assholes who don't give a fuck about them or the kids they teach.
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You mean the union did its fucking job and fought to protect its membership? It's almost like health and welfare on the job is literally why unions exist.
You utter goose.
It's especially rich, considering the overwhelming majority of teachers are doing a job with long unpaid hours, regularly paying for classroom supplies out of their own pockets, simply because they want kids to learn. And there's a reason that so many of them are getting burnt out. My wife was one of them. They've been turned into villains for political expediency, and they're just done with it.
And thanks to technology and social media, children can be exposed to exponentially more children in their day to day life than ever before
The bigger problem is the blurring of spaces in and out of school,which has no really good answers.
There are about 100,000 schools in the US. Unless someone is a scholar in the field, I find blanket statements about "government schools" to require a lot more backing up. Because the news loves to promote sensational news stories from the handful of the most crazy schools in the country. And parents generally don't have that much experience with that many schools by the time their kid(s) get out. And picking one homeschooled kid (Day) who did well in life is about as valid as picking one public schooled kid who did well in life (me). And we even grew up in roughly the same area of the state in the same time period.
I say all that, even though I chose an alternate route for my kids (Montessori) because I wanted something other than the traditional education model. We chose a private school instead, which two years ago became... a public "government" school. So now my kids go to a "government" school in a large city, and I love it.
It should also be noted that we chose this school, and other parents can choose it (up to enrollment capacity and subject to lotteries when that is exceeded). In Minnesota (where I live now), you can choose any school to go to, so there's no "I'm the only thing you got"itis at all. A lot of places don't do that, though, and a lot of that has to do with institutional racism.
I'm going to leave out the assumption of privilege with homeschooling, or vouchers that work great for people with more income but leave a gap that is hard to cover for people without. But lots could also be said about that.
What does this mean? Well, think about what happens on a playground: kids get bullied by their peers, other kids are trying to be like the popular kids, and the popular kids are trying to stay that way by any means available to them. When you were a kid, I'm sure there were trends: yo-yos, handball, fingerboards, etc etc. Apply that mentality to the whole of social media though and what do you get? An unending deluge of trends and fads to keep up with, constant validation checks (via upvotes/retweets/what-have-you), pseudo-anonymity and "follows" to make hounding kids outside of class easier and more frequent than ever before. The major difference is that the playground was a contained microcosm that one could escape, tailored to a specific school demographic; social media is a macrocosm that encompasses all playgrounds and demographics that no one can escape once they're pulled in via the plethora of functionally demanded cross-account-linking (and that says nothing of the terrible OpSec children and young adults have today as a result).
All that said, a school district trying to sue Big Tech over it isn't going to do anything noteworthy, if anything at all. As another poster said, it's far too late to put that genie back in its bottle.