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docbungle - students are being thought that they ought to submit to authority, to not question the motives of the leaders.
By refusing to engage in a dialog, one is submitting to a totalitarian system. This situation is teaching kids that they ought to bow to the pressure of a few, whom calm to speak for the whole. Grease was advertised as not being for children, would guess the same would be true for The Crucible. Its about teaching people about the past
its a curious world where avoiding complainers is the goal. And where
do people who have only heard about something get to have their opinions
registered as legitimate? I suppose that in these sorts of communities
the narrowest-minded get to set the agenda, so everything has to be
pitched down to their comfort level.
And what are the lessons that the kids are learning? Are they actually
better off if the community pretends that there is no smoking, drinking,
kissing, discontent, and the like?
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