KeithTheEEDec 23, 2024

There's a Nancy Drew game my partner is playing through. In it there's a mention of Kansas' "Speak No Evil" Mime Competition. In an attempt to see how made up it was, (very made up)

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I came across this.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED117084.pdf

A grotesque-feeling document on classroom discipline which I can only describe as uncomfortably "thought-crime-centric" in a bioshock vein.

Rewards for good behavior include being entered in a "Pickle Jar Lottery".

I can't suffer this document alone.

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What is this? This is awful.

It's the most sterile, unemphatic, "Here's why the Stanford Prison experiment was actually a good idea" piece of text I've read in a long time. 1975 was when it was published and hooboy it fits the tone of the era in education.

Dec 23, 2024 at 5:59amWeb
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The sheer disinterest in teaching is baffling

It's just manipulation, but there isn't even an attempt to understand students so all suggestions of rewards and punishments just feel like they're made by someone who has a cat and is upset by the cats proximity to them.

All attempts at dealing with the cat are made through their understanding of "tom" in tom and jerry-which they had never watched but they once read a TV Guide description of and thus they feel as they're qualified to dislike cats.