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Although schools are supposed to empower and educate, they frequently serve to uphold antiquated power structures.
Binary dress restrictions promote conventional gender expectations and stifle individuality.
Women, LGBT, and oppressed voices are frequently absent or tokenized in texts that exalt men.
Students are taught to follow rather than question when obedience is rewarded and dissent is punished.
The patriarchy of society is imitated by school leadership, which consists primarily of male principals, trustees, and decision-makers.
Boys' actions are attributed to girls; speech, movement, and attire are strictly regulated.
Consent, sexuality, and gender identity are left out of the conversation—or treated as shameful.
Following convential teaching methods leads to Othering of differntly abled kids and leads to their marginalization.
Class monitors, captains, and prefects all imitate hierarchical, undemocratic power systems.
Success is determined by memorization rather than comprehension, and critical thinking is discouraged.
Instead of engaging in conversation with authority, students are trained to dread it.
Schools make us imbibe the spirit of competition and rivalry leading to a capitalistic mindset.
The syllabi functions aS Ideological State Apparatus propagating ideas of the dominant ideology and leaves behind liminal voices.
In this way, schools end up producing passive followers of rules rather than revolutionaries or reformers of nations.
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