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All the "useless" things we learn in school are there to teach us to learn. (aussie.zone)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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School spends a long time "wasting" our time but learning things is a great way to learn how to interpret information and make actual informed decisions

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[–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My experience in school made me oppose authoritarianism... fucking shitty teachers and school admin, always biased againt me because I'm "foreign" and therefore always presumed to be the troublemaker.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I once knew a Asian kid with ADHD among some other learning disabilities

    Teachers would expect him to mean the Asian stereotype and he wasn't able to get the help that the white kids were getting. His parents and society put a ton of pressure on him and he almost took his own life.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    Relevent: Episode 2 of 你的孩子不是你的孩子 has a part where a tutor said the kid has an intellectual disability, the mom freak out and was like "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY?" as if she got insulted lol

    Also Episode 5 is about the fact that kids who get low scores on their 15 or 18 year old exams, or those with "defects" like ADHD would get placed in a special "advancement program"

    Spoilers: It's actually a secret forced "euthanasia", an extermination program, they get destroyed, like Aktion T4 basically, the type of shit that my mom supports

    In Episode 5, the Mom (who is not the biological mother btw, in this future, all artificially created Embrys inserted into women) wanted the daughter to pretend to have ADHD so that "she can skip the examinations", but actually she just wants to kill her daughter so that she wouldn't get blamed for the "defective" embryo, and therefore can get "assigned" a new Embryo by the (very fascist) government.

    The government also found a bunch of escaped kids that failed exams they were justhiding in a forest somewhere, so government sent troops to take them to extermination.

    Really fucked up shit.

    This show is made in Taiwan, I doubt Mainland would even make such a controvertial plot portraying the government badly.

    Reminds me of CCP tbh. They wanted to "terminate" me for being the 2nd child of my family because "overpopulation" or whatever... I somehow lived... 🤷‍♂️

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