#schooling
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.”
“What if school, as we used it on a daily basis, signaled not the name of a process or institution through which we could be indoctrinated, not a structure through which social capital was grasped and policed, but something more organic, like a scale of care. What if school was the scale at which we could care for each other and move together. In my view, at this moment in history, that is really what we need to learn most urgently.”
–Alexis Pauline Gumbs Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals(viaKameelah Janan Rasheed’s Orange Tangent Study)
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Box Tops for Education is a program founded by General Mills to help support education and better America’s schools. Founded in 1996, schools all over the country began clipping Box Tops and earning cash to buy the materials they needed.
By 2004, over 82,000 schools across the nation participated in Box Tops, earning more than $100 million.
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It’s funny how much media and sometimes even science of the past acted like animals had secret, impossible, possibly psychic senses and instincts but like
Some animals can navigate because they’ve literally got magnetic materials in them. They’ve just got compasses. In their guts.
Ants and other “swarming” insects don’t have any kind of shared mind they just communicate very very fast at their small size.
Some cephalopods just watch the world through their transparent eggshells as they develop and memorize the behavior of potential prey.
Fish schools communicate among one another by farting.
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Magnetoreception:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoreception
Ant communication:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150828081312.htm (this is just some newer research into it, we’ve actually known a fairly long time they’re just very good at chemical communication; the whole “hive mind” thing was always a sci-fi cliche)
Cuttlefish begin observing prey before they hatch: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/27/cuttlefish-learn-from-watching-potential-prey-even-before-they-are-born/
Fish schools coordinated by farting:http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/11/farting-fish-keep-touch
What? For real? I thought this was just a shitpost
It’s not just schooling fish either the ocean is pretty much one massive ass cheese orchestra
“It amazes me how young kids like, Stephen Gogolev can adjust to such environment changes, body changes, all while being high school students and an elite leveled athletes so well. It has to be harder than it seems on the surface, coaching changes, injuries, and growth spurts are always so hard.”
“Kostornaya said in a recent interview that she plans to go to the 2022 Olympics then retire to focus on her studies and become a neurosurgeon, and I’m so sad that we won’t be able to admire her beautiful skating longer, but omg, I’m also so happy that she found something she’s passionate about. So many skaters don’t know what to do with themselves after retirement, but she has a clear plan, and she’s smart and ambitious, and can achieve everything that she sets her mind to.”
“I honestly wouldn’t be too sad if Aliona Kostornaia did retire after Beijing (assuming she goes), considering how much she seems so set in becoming a doctor/surgeon. She’d be around the college entry age for most by then and only the Lord knows how she would balance Medschool and Sports.”
Shout out to the kids like me who had good grades in k-3rd and suddenly became an “underachiever” and suffered from that point on with an inferiority problem and never quite learned to live up to their true potential
