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School Haters must be allowed to leave-or trouble ensues
Posted by: Luke Kuhn ( Utopian Anarchist Party, USA ) on July 09, 1997 at 21:20:48:
I believe that not only is compulsory education wrong on the basis that jailing a person for refusing to "invest" in his OWN life is an outrageous act of aggression, but that it is also counterproductive.
Suppose you have a class of 20 students that want to be there, and ten more who wish they were anywhere else and violently hate school. Those ten school haters will do their level best to disrupt the class and shut it down for everyone else-and they will not learn the material anyway. In AmeriKKKa we have a saying-"you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink."
If a student cannot drop out peacefully all he needs to do is act up until he is expelled, and refuse to do the work. When I was 14, my parents threatened to send me to summer school if they were not satisfied with my grades-so I threatened to flunk everything on purpose if they dared to do so. This led to an immediate dropping of the summer school idea.
Today, in Maryland there has been a bombing and bomb threat campaign against the public schools by students who hate school-and much speculation about the involvement of the youth militia movement in the campaign.
It began with a live bomb at Bowie High school that made headline news. Soon all of the schools were inundated with bomb threats-one of them for two weeks in a row-so when they DIDN'T get one it made the news. In addition there were about a dozen live bombe-one of which went of at it's intended time(weekend night) at the office.
All this happens because teenagers-who are ADULTS by virtue of having passed puberty-are being treated like children.
Compulsory education was passed in the 1800's at the requests of factory owners who observed that adult workers were quitting in droves-like McDonalds workers do today-but children quickly became conditioned to it and stayed. As they could not make child labor compulsory they demanded schools modeled on the factories(hence the schoolbell) that could be compulsory. At the time this applied only to elementary school and thus to children.
During the Great Depression, some union leaders hatched the idea that compulsory high school could be used to eliminate competition from teenagers who demanded less pay because they did not have families to support-and to hell with their rights. Ever since, the hiogh schools have been filled with school haters.
Keep in mind, in the U.S., most children and teens HATE school and 95% of people over 18 HATE their jobs. This suggests that massive exploitation is the purpose of this whole exercise. Since Americans today have become hard to dicipline and expensive, these corporate bosses are simply shifting operations to third world countries that have not evolved as far down this road.
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