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Skye: A typical day at school. Arrive, pass through the police line, and get off the bus/out of the car. Take off any metal items/phone/keys and walk through the metal detector. If you don't get picked up for a random search, go to class.

If something happened recently, like the Maine shooter, talk about school shooting procedures and run through evacuation drills. If nothing like that is happening, the teacher will issue trigger warnings for any classes that might upset people (which at this point includes almost everything) and then begin teaching.

Except not really. The teacher will first be focused on making sure everyone is behaving, the discussion stays within bounds, everyone's using non-offensive language, etc. Teaching to the standardized test requirements is second. Third most important is teaching information to help us develop.

Then go home and work on homework on a special computer that's so locked down to prevent you from cheating, that it can barely do anything. Then deal with any arguments pending because every single thing you do or get graded on is available online for whoever runs your life after school to nitpick.

What kind of people is this creating? I guess corporate drones that won't complain about doing business compliance training, and won't cause any HR violations. But do companies even want that?

Is this really what we think is best? Or did someone just give up on us a long time ago?

#school #modernschool #youth #lostgeneration

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