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17 July 2016 05:17 pm
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The bus stop turns into the youth club...
First love, first drink, maybe even first time getting physical. And lots of friends.
What has modern society to offer to its youngsters?
Living in sterile, mold-contamined, pimped up flats, celebrating their weekends in used up buildings whose purpose they know at the highest from when they were kids, offered consumer goods which they can never pay, jobs that don't exist and promises that never come into effect. On top, bags of clothes manifactured in the third world which they can cut and rearrange to show how run-down they are, and ugly hair-cuts which make them appear like they have some sort of problems.
Education somewhat is an alien concept, both in the way of knowledge about the world and emotional development.
They get handed a lot of toys and tools to get paid the time their parents haven't spend with them, but can't make up for the deep nothing they perceive.
Sold out worlds, they long for destruction, for the destination that remains for when there's no task for you or your body is plagued by diseases. Diseases the parents thought about in their selfishness "they will be able to get along with that". And they keep wondering why these kids in their selfishness for exstasy beget another aimless generation of kids accidently...
On the other hand, education in the form of learning in excess for those who can pay for it. Planning of futures until the age of 40, orchestrated and without a doubt that anything can come in between this. No guess of what poverty means, what deprivations means, not even that it exists at all or what life-threatening circumstances could be. A bubble which nothing goes wrong within.
In the end, the planning also reveals its shallowness: Getting education, getting jobs, founding families, reproduce, buying houses, buying cars - running around and following the established role model, without a thought for a deeper meaning, just as trying to get drunk and loitering around in derelict houses and on the streets. It's about running away and clouding your mind.
The middle class youngsters ignore in their planning, that their kids are going to have to fight even harder for getting jobs as there is limitation in this, so it is also done in a manner of feeding your ego, numbing your mind to prevent to understand something.
Whereas the kids which grow up in poverty rather get their kids unvoluntarily and suddenly start to get those dreams of a idyllic world that isn't reachable for them. If they do not turn out in the end to abandon them, to show them the true face of what their existence already is: Superfluous.

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Date: 18 July 2016 04:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mandarinsun.livejournal.com
I agree, but it gets to be really complicated and your and my preference for teacher and student interaction would be called very conservative here and maybe in Europe too. There is this thing called Common Core which is the new educational plan here though it is becoming discredited. It is something that is done in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden- I think.

The idea is that students are now supposed to interact with each other about what they have learned. They are supposed to be ab;e to learn things more if they talk about them and write about them.

Also, teenage students like listening to each other more than adults. So, administrators and teachers try to encourage students, through rewards and such, to talk with each other as part of class time.

It is preferable now for a teacher to have students do group projects where they work with each other too.

Because of all this, teachers now are supposed to relate and be able to talk to students more which requires, or seems to require, liking many, or some, of the same things they do. So, teachers use examples of movie stars, pop culture things, bad movies, athletes, hip hop music, etc to relate to the teenagers.

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