#school abolition

Alexis Pauline Gumb, M Archive: After the End of the World:

“it was like that the last day we left the schools. all song. so many songs of the erstwhile schoolchildren freed and the generations crescendoing to meet us.

there was a time when no one would have ever thought there could be school abolition. except the sneaky privatization schemes that sought to destroy the students while keeping the buildings as monuments to how deep their theft could go.

it was the mothers who said it first. how total prison was. how the problem was not only their children being pushed out of school and into camps, but how the children drinking private school kool-aid were pipelined to more colorful camps. matriculating with programmed responses, like drones to kill the willing once they were made.

and the midlife crisis set who protested all the barbed wire put on their years as if learning was temporary. and what did they know?

ultimately it was the natural consequence of all our industrious work to make the air unbreathable, the water undrinkable, and the people uncritically unthinkable. at some point we needed all the different ages to solve all the problems we had excel-sheeted and databased into our lives.

so we abolished schools and prisons the same day. and the people came home singing and welcomed with song. what a noise. what a noise for every age.”