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The UK rightly losing its shit over the govt banning the teaching of anti-capitalism. For anyone who has been through the education system there knows that this is implicit already. 1/
The top down, authoritarian structure, arbitrary attendance times, coercive control, regurgitation of narrow lists of approved "facts". State education is hardly Francisco Ferrer free school pedagogy. 2/
My state school education was so narrow that in 1987 we had a mock general election (mirroring the UK's).
I stood as the Labour party candidate.
We were all assigned a teacher to assist us. My English teacher wrote me a manifesto that blew me away and taught me a lesson. 3/
I stood as the Labour party candidate.
We were all assigned a teacher to assist us. My English teacher wrote me a manifesto that blew me away and taught me a lesson. 3/
I remember asking, "is this the labour party platform?", which at the time was mildly democratic socialist (sound familiar??) To which he responded, "yes".
I proudly did hustings and leaders debates espousing these policies 4/
I proudly did hustings and leaders debates espousing these policies 4/
When it came to the election I was very confident.
I lost to the Tories.
For context, I was at a
state comprehensive, of the generation who still remembered Thatcher stealing our milk, destroying the miners, eviserating public services and selling off the family gold. 5/
I lost to the Tories.
For context, I was at a
state comprehensive, of the generation who still remembered Thatcher stealing our milk, destroying the miners, eviserating public services and selling off the family gold. 5/
Government edict or not. Schools are not hot beds of anti capitalism. They are factories for churning out the next generation of workers. Smart enough to work the machines but not too smart to ask why 6/6
