The answer isn’t “culture of poverty” “low morals” or “poor people just don’t care about education”
here we go:
Low-income children are more likely than their higher-income peers to be in factory-like classrooms that allow little interaction and physical movement. As a result, these children spend more time sitting, following directions and listening rather than discussing, debating, solving problems and sharing ideas.
As a teacher I hear so much about how “these parents” don’t care about learning and their children’s education. There is palatable frustration at how we can’t “deal with” the students we work with.
But there is little to be said about how our public school systems are not equipped to provide students with valuable learning experiences. Instead we are continually told we need to do more with less.
Number 1 problem: we build schools in the hood designed to control instead of teach.
any system where people are upset there lives were saved is not a system that works
WELCOME TO AMERICA, THE WORLD’S NEWEST THIRD-WORLD COUNTRY.
Except that’s an insult to third-world countries because they try much harder than the US does.
The “third world country” I’ve spent the most amount of time in has an election day holiday and a constitution that protects the rights of workers, the environment and voting explicitly.
On this day, 14 July 1877, the first mass strike in US history took place. The Great Railroad Strike aka the Great Upheaval saw general strikes stop all activity in a dozen major cities as workers took over the railways and took on police and federal troops. This is Jeremy Brecher’s account of these key events in American working class history: https://ift.tt/2a118Pihttps://ift.tt/2uyBBqA
all those ‘say no to drugs’ assemblies in school where WACK i never once had the pot head kids push the Devils Lettuce on me. they’d be like ‘hey u wanna smoke some of this here Blunt of Marajoouana?’ and i’d be like ‘no thanks i dont smoke’ and they’d be like ‘ok cool’ and never bother me about it again
drinkers? NO CHILL AT ALL. even into adulthood people act like i’ve slain their child when i say i am completely sober. like every single time i’ve said no to drinking some person is like ‘what about jello shots there’s barely any in it’ or they’ll leave me a solo cup of wine ‘in case you change your mind’ and when by the end of the night i haven’t had it they’re all ‘you didn’t want any?’ LIKE? YAH I SAID I DIDNT?
anti drug psa’s are fine but they gotta talk about drinking too bc never once did anyone i know who did drugs push me to do it too but everyone i tell i am sober tries to find a way to get me to drink like i said ‘i am sober but change my mind’ or smth
what are some children’s games that could easily be tweaked to help kids survive a zombie apocalypse? for example, hide and seek would teach kids how to hide from zombies until it’s safe.
thank you for the suggestions, guys 🙂 here are the ones i’m using so far…
Games for Young Children: Help Your Children Learn to Survive Infection
Simon Says
Hide and Seek
The Quiet Game
Tag (and all variations)
Capture the Flag
Baseball
Dodgeball
I know this post is looking forward to the zombie apocalypse and the end of days, but I think it’s also an interesting moment to reflect on these games with a view to the past. That is where did these games come from? Why do they seem so universal? Why do we still play them. Games in their most basic form teach basic survival (think hand eye coordination, physical strength, endurance, spatial orientation, etc) as well as social skills (following and abiding rules, working as a unit, communication, etc). A lot of cool work has been done in academia about the ways that kids use games to make sense of the world. So why do these games in particular seem so long lived? In an oversimplification, it’s because they taught basic survival to tiny humans. They don’t require toys (not as we would define them anyway), just a group of people, some imagination, and some energy.
Think hide and seek, which Encyclopedia Britannica dates as “very old” (shorthand for we actually cannot possibly trace this back to a singular time or space). It’s essentially, at it’s core, an attempt to not be killed by other humans or by animals. Tag can be dated back to Ancient greece, and, fun facts, “
The game is known by many names, such as leapsa in Romania and kynigito in parts of modern Greece. In some variants the children pretend that the touch carries some form of contagion—e.g., plague (Italy), leprosy (Madagascar), fleas (Spain), or “lurgy fever” (Great Britain). In others, a method of achieving immunity from touch is prescribed, as by touching wood, iron, or a specified colour or assuming a particular position (e.g., squatting)(x)
Though it might be of an earlier origin, Capture the Flag was included in the Boy Scouts handbook, and quite deliberately used to teach young boys the objective of battle (ie conquer enemy territory by reaching their home base). Though this is when the game was given really detailed regulation. Given the nature of child mimicking adult life (ie warfare) in play, the likelihood of capture the flag being played earlier is really high.
I taught a class last year about the History of Childhood and Youth and we did two units on games: one was about late 20th c. board games, but the other was about pre-19th century physical games and toys (I made college children play hide and seek, it was awesome). The whole purpose of this is that most “children’s games” are designed to teach survival skills, so we don’t need to tweak to much to prepare for the zombie apocalypse since we’ve been trying to keep the tiny humans from dying in terrible ways since ancient times at least.
PS @jhoomwrites i’m sorry i went on a rant on your post. Also, you should include a revised Ring Around the Rosie to include tips to avoid zombie infection in you list
Belated Happy Birthday to wonderful @dekujin!! I really hope you all happiness. XD
I give you Robostiltskin cuddled with Belle from your wonderful verse, Real Inside. I hope you like it!
Thank you for the birthday wishes, and bless you for this amazing, incredible piece of art. LIKE MY HEART HAS MELTED. Their faces-the cuddling-how blissful they are being together. I’m probably going to stare at this long through the weekend and try not to cry over how CUTE THEY ARE.
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