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Originally Posted by lemit

Theory5.

Is the Wilde quote from "The Artist As Critic?" I haven't read that essay in 40 years, but it informs much of my thinking about art, literature, thought, and learning.

Im not sure lemit, I heard that quote from the TV show "The Outer Limits" I belive the episode was "Stream of Consciousness"

The decisions of school boards, in my limited experience, are generally informed by fear. Anyone who has ever been victimized by Zero Tolerance has possibly noticed the scent of hormones in the air.

There are two ways of approaching bureaucratic fear. You can make the mildest of threats and watch the emanating waves that seem to defy nature and grow as they leave their source.

Interesting idea Lemit. I know of the "Zero Tolerance" policy, and our school based pretty much every policy on it from dealing with fights and harrassment to student computer access as well as using it as an excuse to censor what gets posted around the school (everything that is hung up or distributed must have a "stamp of approval").

I find that your idea seems to fit. Unfortunatly they use the Zero Tolerance policy in the way it was supposed to be used, to cover the schools @$$. Oh sure, its to help protect us, keep us safe, prevent harm. Unless you actually look at their entire policy. Harrassment: In school suspension; Fighting: In school suspension; Disobedience: In school suspension; Running in the halls: In school suspension; Not doing your homework X5: In school suspension. And the list goes on. Last year a teacher kept telling us to stop talking, and then once we did one of my friends sneezed and his punishment was: In school suspension.
These are just some forms of control they are subjecting us to. They make us sign papers that say we "understand" even though we are minors and our signatures doesnt count for squat. They make us sacrifice our rights to stay "safe", safly under their control that is.

Obediance and compliance is the name of their game. Every day when we step through those doors we give up our constitutional rights. We are forced to learn what they teach, and belive it. They could've taught us that 2+2=5 and no one would have known. They teach us other abserd things like that Cristopher Columbus was a great man and was a hero for finding America, neglecting to tell us that when he met the Awaks and the Hatians he and his men set about inslaving them for England, and they beat many of them sensless because they thought there were "fields of gold". They never taught us about Bacons rebellion, or how George Washington delt with mutineering troops (it wasnt really bad, I just think it was interesting enough to go in the history books). They only breifly mention the expansion, and they mention a treaty or two with the indians, but they never said how we constantly went back on those promises, or what any of the indian Chiefs speeches were. Our History is over ripe with horrors, and we have inflicted more than our fair share of them. They have us analyze poems and liturature and they have us give our "opinion" ( I learned long ago all they wanted us to do was recap or dumb down what happened in the poem or book). They do not subject us to poems that provoke thought, at least until we are too brainwashed to listen to it.