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the children have tasted freedom and i hope they never go back, god bless every single one of them https://twitter.com/mims/status/1242788312156430346
some of you may not know how seriously i am proposing that students take this opportunity to simply refuse to go to school forever after this
and the answer is i don't know either but more than 50% at least, let's find out as i rant off the cuff
and the answer is i don't know either but more than 50% at least, let's find out as i rant off the cuff
first, for those of you who are new to how much i hate school, a short primer:
schools are prisons for children and children should not be in prison
that's it, basically, but here's a slightly longer tweet too: https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1133636972533051392?s=20
schools are prisons for children and children should not be in prison
that's it, basically, but here's a slightly longer tweet too: https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1133636972533051392?s=20
see also this thread, which begins with my most viral tweet: https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1194733777534078976?s=20
it's seriously not like anyone (in the US anyway) is learning anything in school anyway
you think people learned math? not in a way that mattered. anyone could've done the math on ICU beds in february, it was very easy math, several people did it on twitter, and *yet*!
you think people learned math? not in a way that mattered. anyone could've done the math on ICU beds in february, it was very easy math, several people did it on twitter, and *yet*!
you think people learned history? again, not in a way that mattered. approximately nobody was able to treat the spanish flu as a real thing that happened to real people that could happen again and it shows https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1118619039754883072?s=20
the response of the american people to this crisis, taken at face value, reveals something staggering, something that should have by itself been enough to cancel school forever:
approximately nobody in the US knows how to think
the few who do didn't learn how b/c of school
approximately nobody in the US knows how to think
the few who do didn't learn how b/c of school
quarantine has also made it clear that the current true primary function of school in the US is providing free daycare so parents can *work*
i cannot find the words to express how much i hate this. the structure of american life *prevents parents from parenting*
i cannot find the words to express how much i hate this. the structure of american life *prevents parents from parenting*
so thank *fuck* some parents are finding that when they're stuck at home with their kids they get to enjoy what it's like to *actually be a family together, during the weekday*
you've been granted a taste of freedom! savor it! https://twitter.com/yhazony/status/1239180402239168514?s=20
you've been granted a taste of freedom! savor it! https://twitter.com/yhazony/status/1239180402239168514?s=20
