Getting Educated in the Era of Toxic Authority
The law said the teachers couldn’t hit us, but they had ways around that. They delivered our education through an authority based system. Authority leverages the power of pain as one of its primary tools.The classroom was filled with heavy things. The desks were heavy and made of metal. There was a heavy pencil sharpener bolted to the wall. The door itself was gigantic and thick. We had a blackboard and our teacher’s fingers were stained with chalk dust by the end of the day.So, they were more inclined to grab you in the morning so it wouldn’t leave a mark. They knew all the tricks. They’d…
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