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Besides, why do they only allow for one sharpener? Seems like a complete bullshit for the sake of forcing compliance
School often represses creativity in favor of compliance.
Doesn't have to have a reason. The teacher finds something strange, you are punished. Think of blonde hair in Japanese schools.
In my parents' times, going to school in jeans was forbidden (in center Europe).
Yup. Because schools primarily serve to create workers. Actual education is merely permitted when it does not interfere with the main aim of creating workers
It's an industrial era system in the 21st century. What could possibly go ~~wrong~~ right?
I don't think teachers are thinking about creating workers. They just apply the way they were raised.
But applying without thinking doesn't mean that it doesn't serve a purpose, it just means they don't know what the purpose is
Not on Lemmy, here everything bad is because of capitalism, humans would be perfect if they hadn't bitten into the capitalism apple.
Anon was probably a smartass about it and the teacher made a new rule instead of dealing with it in some other way. Him making that giant sharpener is additional evidence of that
It probably is true. Still, that's a shitty way of dealing with matters in school
how many kids are there in her class? how much time does she have for each kid. Is this "need for attention" an exception or does our "be me" has a list of creative endeavors this teacher had to deal with already?
Are teachers well paid in this society?
The last point is what's important, plus understaffing. When we did an educational project for kids on a non-commercial basis we had about one adult per four kids, so everyone got the attention needed. The official requirement is one adult per ten or fifteen if I remember correctly, which is outrageously not enough
Besides, I get it, the extremes look very simple, if the class has 40 kids and everyone demands lots of attention that's gonna be 40 lots of attention. But in reality if the students are sampled randomly into the class, their need for attention will be different, and only a few are going to demand lots really. And that's under the assumption that anon here was attention seeking, not just a person that didn't like meaningless rules imposed out of nowhere
I had two teachers like that. 4th and 5th grade.