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@gwynnion I had an English teacher who told us that the education system was designed to make reading arduous and boring so it would discourage students from wanting to read. Therefore, she did not administer quizzes and tests on reading. We got to choose what books we read and only had to give a 15 presentation about what we thought of the book. When I gave my presentation on Siddhartha, apparently I was so into my presentation that she let me go for 30 minutes, uninterrupted.

In college, both my creative writing professor and my philosophy professor asserted the same thing. They also said the way classrooms are arranged into rows was a form of oppression, meant to organize society by giving priority to those closest to the teacher and give a sense of worthlessness to the students who sat in the back, so they would be relegated to low-wage jobs or worse by adult hood—a soft caste system. Since the classrooms were shared, they made us rearrange the classrooms every day and it really did make the classes feel more like an open forum for discussion where everyone's ideas were equally appreciated.

I'm always thankful for the wonderful teachers I had. I know so many others are not as fortunate.

Also... The school to prison pipeline is a thing. I've been to jail and it was damn near identical to every public school I attended: the cinder blocks and thick beige paint. The heavy steel doors (though they're much heavier in jail). The narrow windows. Being forced to walk in single-file lines, silently. Asking permission for everything, even using the bathroom. The food is literally catered by the same company: Bob Barker. It's obvious the public school system is designed to make children used to being subjugated.

But if you have family wealth and get to go to a private school, which I got to experience for three years, it is like going to a different universe of freedom. We could just walk off campus to get lunch downtown, without asking, as one little example. The campus was open, with a quad and several free-standing buildings. Every building was more like a house than a concrete box. The windows were huge. Even as a kid, it was impossible to ignore.

i hate how i google something ....... and what comes out is probably going to be either content farm slop or ai generated slop

this old nintendo ds wasn't turning on

I removed the cartridge from the gameboy advance cartridge slot, blew on the cartridge, put it back on

now the nintendo ds turns on.

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This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in-germany#petition-main

This would bring fiscal and funding advantages for FLOSS organizations and the volunteers themselves.

If you are a German citizen, please sign the petition and let's get our volunteers the recognition they deserve!

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