nerd teacher 🦇
@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist. Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace. [Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.] Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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@passenger@kolektiva.social @julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social Society, as it currently stands, creates schools that support the goals of the state. They are literally silos for people (children and mostly young adults) until they are "ready" to participate in the world around them.
I'd argue that part of what anarchists should be doing is working towards creating learning spaces (within multiple other community spaces) that are entirely separate from schools and function differently. Can we still utilise things from schools? Possibly, to varying degrees.
But we have to create spaces with shared goals that are articulated by the members of them (part of freedom of association, btw). If a space wants to learn about right-wing propaganda so that it can better dismantle it, the people inhabiting it must all share that goal and work on multiple necessary skills (e.g., be able to recognise and handle someone who might start falling for that propaganda in the course of studying it).
Schools don't have that shared goal in the same way. The goals they have are already established from the beginning and imposed upon all who enter it, whether they agree or not. Similarly, the procedures to handle people with detrimental views are all... well, I'd argue they're negligent and prone to allowing the harmful behaviours to perpetuate.
