• Salix@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I really don’t understand why schools have this rule (at least in many places in the US). Are they trying to teach you to not practice self defense and just let it happen? Doesn’t sound like a great thing to teach.

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      1 year ago

      It’s easy for the administrators. No investigation, no attempt to understand what happened.

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        1 year ago

        Since the late 90s, school admins have become increasingly “police state light”; multiple vice principals with walkie-talkies, metal detectors, 3 hour after school detention, saturday detention, in-school suspension (you go sit in a room in silence for literally the entire school day), and zero tolerance. Imagine getting punched in the face and THEN being expelled for it. And I’m not even talking about “rough inner-city schools” or whatever; this shit happened in the Berkshires.

        Of course, all their security theatre commands a budget increase and attempts to instill a sense of fear of the state into students.

        We’re worried about school board meetings being taken over now but the administrations went full right wing fascist 30 years ago.