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Post by The Silent Orator on Apr 5, 2007 14:15:42 GMT -5
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Post by Teh Donut on Apr 5, 2007 14:49:56 GMT -5
They'll ban arts and crafts because "differing sets of artistic standards gave rise to issues of value and self esteem". Such will lead to large-scale classroom changes, eventually spreading into the household when the children are adults. This will cause a wide-spread calling for what shall be dubbed "medeocrity laws" at the local, state, and national level. Eventually, the physically fit will be forced to wear heavy weights to make them comparable to the meager, the physically attractive will be force to wear hideous masks so the dont stand out, schools shall shoot down independant thinking as "wrong", stress only one right way of doing something, and destroy creative thinking by ignoring childrens' natural "why" by forcing them to do nothing more than memorize set...oh, sorry, those last few are what's happening now, not what will happen next...
Hm, sounds like a couple books I know, actually...
I always thought playing was a learning device where children discover things about themselves and the real world. To my knowledge, even though everyone owuld love to have a socialist world where it's all for one and one for all and everyone matters, the world is also full of unfair situations, bullying, and the occasion intervention from on high to keep some semblance of order (aka "the law"). To shelter them from such basic understandings that ley learn through play is to set them up for failure and disappointment later in their lives, particularly when they try to live on their own or go to college, where the world is unsympathetic to the individual ego...blah blah blah...not to mention the limits to creativity those teachers have set. Fascist, in my opinion...
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Post by EJP on Apr 5, 2007 15:34:48 GMT -5
Thats fucked up. Banning legos that is. Legos are one of the greatest toys to give to kids who are old enough to not shove them up their nose or to try eatting them. The Lego people don't have any real pysical detail to make an impression on the kids that they must look like this, unlike some other toys, and not to mention its up to the kids playing with the legos on just what to do with them. If they make war toys, let them, if they want to build a monster truck, let them, if they want to build a super world destoryertron with an energy sheild which reflects all the attacks of Billy the bully, LET THEM! You take a simple toy like legos away from the kids, and you take away their chance to be creative in their own way. Not to mention the future kids these days are turning out to be nothing but a bunch of panzies. Remember the metal play grounds? Remember those hot days when you'd be burning your hands and other body parts on the playground? Now they have plastic everything and that doesn't help. Now they have all this social shit to encourge some bull shit that some dumbass came up with which is sopost to make the kids behave or something. The only way to raise kids without them being a bunch of panies is to do things the old school way. They have to know death, pain, what happens if you do this dumbass stunt off the monkey bars, and let them develope on their own without any of your text book bull shit. Not to mention that when the kids were fighting during recess, atleast they were having fun and getting exercise.
Reading that brought back all the bad memories I had while being a kid and all the bull shit they took away from us for bull shit reasons. They took away anything and everything they thought could be uses for any violent games but would they never thought of was just how creative we could get. Truthfuly if you take away all the violent toys, games, and whatever, you end up with nothing to do which then causes boredon which leads to, bullying and I would know since I've been there on those do nothing after schools and summers.
Funny memory: I remember while back when I was kid in after school day care, how I use to think they put mind control drugs in all the after school snacks they gave the kids because all the kids acted alike and never rebeled or questioned anything while I, who wouldn't eat them because I truely believe it, would rebel and question things.
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Post by Ninmast on Apr 5, 2007 15:41:45 GMT -5
*stands around with unfocused eyes* They're not drugged ... the government loves us ... the government cares about us ... they would never drug us ...
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Post by EJP on Apr 5, 2007 15:48:49 GMT -5
*Starts to hit Ninmast with a sock with a lock in it.* Snap out of it man!
Hey I was just telling you all a funny memory of mine. I have alot of somewhat funny or messed up ones from being a kid. Such as the two times we day care students figured out how to make toy guns and got all this B.S. for doing it and having toy gun shoot out under the stacked desks.
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Post by Ninmast on Apr 5, 2007 15:57:43 GMT -5
Heh, sounds like you had a very interesting childhood.
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Post by EJP on Apr 5, 2007 16:13:18 GMT -5
Actualy, to tell you the truth I compare my childhood, or really, the time I spent at after school and over the summer day care, I consider it to be alot like prison. We made makeshift weapons, we were bored and always bullying and even fighting each other, I was usualy in trouble for some B.S. or another because I fought back, and overal I was rarely happy until I got out.
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Post by Teh Donut on Apr 5, 2007 16:54:27 GMT -5
Escape your childhood prison, just to enter the penententiary that is adulthood.
Hm...one time in the after school thing, we were all rounded up all concentratrion camp-like and they went down the line, trying to figure out who wrote this big "O" on the wall with a crayon. It had some distinctive little swirl to it, and none of us admitted to it. Looking back, I think it was me...not sure, because the me back then and the me now both don't remember doing it, but the me now is looking at his handwriting and looking at the "O" from back then...and there are a lot of simularities... >.>
I think It's about time I passed my legos down to the next generation, so that they may know the awesome that is tiny plastic blocks.
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Post by EJP on Apr 5, 2007 17:06:37 GMT -5
I've be lined up like that as well back in the day for a similiar reason. Someone clogged the craper with paper towels cover with paint on some face painting day after everyone washed it off their face. Addmittedly everyone who was male (Only the boys bathroom had this problem) was just following suit from one student. But that wasn't as bad as all the times they forced us to learn square dancing and all the other times when they forced us to watch the same damn G rated movie over and over again. See, mind control, braking our will. Prision like. We even had a kid who was so fed up with being their that he tried to kill himself, but he didn't.
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Post by N4Mazter on Apr 5, 2007 17:40:53 GMT -5
I was usualy in trouble for some B.S. or another because I fought back, At least you fought back. There was this evil midget back in my Elementary (K-5, then around 1st) days who picked on people, including me. I think I'm the first one to get him in trouble, as that first day he transfered in he cut me in line for lunch and being right next to me in line, spit at me and almost hit my eye. Fast forward a few months, and into recess. He decides to have a showdown with me as he and on-lookers approached me behind a jungle gym. What happens is very un-climatic. The midget tackles me a couple of times, me thinking it funny as I only get back up and take more. This happens for a few minutes, with me not getting a single injury. Then someone calls in a teacher and she sits us [glow=red,2,300] both[/glow]on this big yellow line for the rest of the recess. Why there is a gap around "both", I don't know. Why we both got in trouble should be obvious. |
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Post by The Silent Orator on Apr 15, 2007 18:25:36 GMT -5
Actually, the rules implied at the bottom, with the "equal sharing" and every structure is "standard size", they ARE enforcing a communist-type environment around these children.
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