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Monday, November 26, 2012

Enslaved to the Enslaved by the Enslaving. « Cooperative Catalyst

Enslaved to the Enslaved by the Enslaving. « Cooperative Catalyst:


Enslaved to the Enslaved by the Enslaving.

Is the school the source of the feeling of perpetual entrapment that the youth claim to fill? Is the number 2 pencil the slave master for the children, the ones doped up on Adderall and Ritalin, and removed from society so that they can tend to the slave masters distant cousin, the standardized assessment? Are the children the sheep in a corporatist panacea of reform? Are the teachers the herders, unknowingly herding the children of tomorrow into a field of misplacement and twisted ideology? Are the teachers just slaves themselves, slaves owned by those who have never stepped foot inside of a classroom in any capacity of an educator? Is that how it functions now, having the slave masters become so comfortable that they let educated slaves guide their impressionable ones?
It’s a shame really, our nations public schools becoming hijacked by those selling a fantasy where the teachers are the villains and Wall St. is the saint, that not only knows what is best for themselves, but shockingly for the