This is an example of how authoritarianism in grade school fails to prepare kids for college discourse. The substitute lost control of the situation. He attempted to publically strong arm a kid into displaying a level of patriotism the child expressed they did not feel. The administration felt a need to show authority by attempting to remove the child from class after repeatedly provoking the child with displays of authority. The school eventually turned to the police to bring order to a situation of chaos they produced. The student had a right to not be forced to pledge allegiance to a flag. This would include a right to education if the child refused to falsely display a sense of patriotism out of public humiliation and use of rank by the substitute teacher and school staff. To order the student to leave the room or attempt to shame him was inappropriate. While I get the ‘in my day’ people eating member berries, the fact is forcing people to pretend to be patriotic doesn’t make them patriotic. It makes them resentful and at best self-righteous later when it is their turn to be an authority figure. It’s a school. Perhaps this should be an educational moment on why schools feel it is their duty to establish obedience to authoritarianism at the expense of intellectual development and producing the capability in students to have dialectical discussions on social issues of subcultural conflict. When these kids get to college, they are the same kids who don’t think it is appropriate to question their professor declaring gender to be a social construct without some pretty clear biological markers. You can take a situation like this and encourage critical discussion, or you can let it spin out of control provoking a child into juvenile detention. I’d rather teach kids to articulate their point of view than force mine down their throat with the police. Yup. The same people backing the school’s right to force agreement on a belief in patriotism the student may not really feel don’t understand why kids go to college and go whack when they were never taught to criticize their teachers now saying crazy stuff on the other end of the ideological perspective. By teaching kids how to intellectually debate controversial subjects, the school could have prepared these kids to be leaders. Instead, they are producing kids being taught to fake belief in ideas they hardly believe for social advantages. This is how Trump got elected. People were afraid to discuss the actual issues out of moral outrage by liberals, so a guy who said random crazy stuff won because people couldn’t believe he had the balls to say inappropriate shit people often sort of believed themselves. You can’t destroy a bad idea if it isn’t allowed to present itself to be destroyed without shaming the person saying the stupid thing a lot of people think is actually secretly true.
Grade School Forced Displays of Patriotism Produces University Forced Liberalism
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