“Ebil redfash China forcing us to learn stuff!”

  • blakeus12 [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    to be fair that amount of school is objectively bad. the validity of said claim is questionable and if it is true it is a legitimate problem that needs to be addressed

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      It definitely checks out with what my Chinese friends experienced growing up. The expectations put on children there are pretty brutal.

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      I don’t necessarily have a problem with it, if it really is broken up by periods of exercise and napping. The devil is in the details, of course, but I spent an awful lot of my childhood goofing off and not doing anything constructive. When I somehow got into a fairly demanding university track (scholarship, my family wasn’t rich), I really struggled, and wished I’d been inculcated in better study habits much earlier.

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        this isn’t healthy for kids, slacking is bad for them of course but forcing them to 12 hours of school is plain ridiculous. they need time to themselves. even if it is broken up it’s too much for any child. this isn’t like, ebil see see pee or whatever but if this is true it needs to be changed

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      I feel like this might be doing the same math as CEO’s do when they say they’re working 60 hours weeks - that’s not to say that kids aren’t studying a lot, but I mean the total amount they’re actually at a desk getting instruction has to be lower than that.

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      The “how do students find time to have sex” comment was particulary reddit-tier.

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        Why would someone want to “combat WALL·E?” The movie had a good message. Looking at the post history of the user, they’re a Va*shit ukranazi. Of course they also said most tankies are secretly Nazis, which is funny when the LARPers among us always harp on how it was our people that defeated the Nazis.

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          “Combat Wall-E and age of consent laws” – fictional Va*shite manifesto (only the Wall-E thing is made up),

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    I mean, Cuban schools have similar hours to Western schools, but they also have 90 minutes of free time multiple times a school day, from what I’ve heard, and we aren’t bashing them, are we?

    If these hours in Chinese schools are true, they are legitimately more than the legal working hours for adults (around 45 hours per week). School shouldn’t be a kid’s entire life, just like how work shouldn’t be an adult’s entire life. Let them have enough time to rest, to spend valuable time with friends and family, and to discover what it is that they are good at and want in life.

    EDIT: I put 90 hours when it should have been 90 minutes.

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    TIL David Graeber died as a thirteen year old anthropologist university professor

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    Pop anarchism, the kind without a grasp of leftist theory and more of a vibes-driven thing, amounts to “DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” expanded upon over and over again in all circumstances.