i know it’s been a few hours since i made the posts but i think what i was trying to say on some level was like, let kids be angry at a public education system which p often aims to turn them into docile workers and citizens with an unquestioning obedience to authority. don’t sit on your high horse post-public education and tell them all the wonderful independent thinking they’re ‘actually’ learning, when you are not in the classroom with them, you do not know what kind of teachers they have or what kind of things they are in fact being taught. let them have anger and criticism of authority figures who they see as too controlling of, quite literally, their personal thoughts and interpretations of things like literature, bcos honestly the ability to even think criticism towards an authority figure was one of the most important lessons i ever learned, and it was not part of the standard curriculum in my high school.
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