As a new but older teacher—I got certified as a second career in my 50s—I want to begin every school year of my secondary ELA classes with a classroom discussion about what school is for. So many students answer the question with some variation of “So I can get a good job.” I want them to interrogate that idea, to pick it apart and expose its essential falsehood and quackery, to see that it’s designed to reduce them to nothing more than a replaceable part in a profit machine. Thank you for reinforcing my instinct about this.
As a new but older teacher—I got certified as a second career in my 50s—I want to begin every school year of my secondary ELA classes with a classroom discussion about what school is for. So many students answer the question with some variation of “So I can get a good job.” I want them to interrogate that idea, to pick it apart and expose its essential falsehood and quackery, to see that it’s designed to reduce them to nothing more than a replaceable part in a profit machine. Thank you for reinforcing my instinct about this.