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Complete agreement about the hopeless environment. My point was that the enculturation works extremely reliably. I have not met a single student who questioned
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
Complete agreement about the hopeless environment. My point was that the enculturation works extremely reliably. I have not met a single student who questioned or rejected the culture. It is dejecting, and you despise the kids for that.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> I have not met a single student who questioned or rejected the culture. Both as a student myself and later as a long-term sub in a high school for a while in a poor district, I met lots of students who rejected whatever you might want to (rightly or wrongly) characterize as “the culture”, including many who adapted to what they saw as the incentives in the system while still rejecting the culture and attitudes they perceived as setting those incentives.