Tag: education

These extracts illustrate how dominant educational discourses of the ideal female pupil may be experienced as narrow and constraining by young working class women, who find it difficult to reconcile a positive view of themselves as pupils with their own notions of an assertive, strong femininity. The girls’ assertions of ‘loud’, active and visible femininities can be understood as challenging the forms of submissive, passive and quiet femininity that are usually rewarded within schools. For boys, such ‘challenging’ behaviours may tend to be read as part of ‘normal’ masculinity, whereas the same behaviours may bring young women into conflict with schools because they are interpreted as deviant and undesirable aspects of femininity (e.g., as problematic or aggressive rather than ‘assertive’).

Inner-city femininities and education: ‘race’, class, gender and schooling in young women’s lives by Louise Archer, Anna Halsall and Sumi Hollingworth

Thinking About What To Do About Educating My Future Spawn

Cause like public school’s are terrible here and give crappy education intended to teach you how to be a non-self starting drone, the buildings are unhealthy, their social studies programs are bourgeois propaganda, and start too early in the day and damage their tiny brains.

And private schools are unaffordable to me, put them in with the bourgeois, prepares them for a life as a member of the bourgeois or the moyenne-bourgeois and teaches them at best bourgeois pseudo-leftist and at worst essentially aristocratic ideas.

And homeschooling is often… well it leaves them undersocialized, poorly prepared to participate in society and yeah.

I want there to be like a non-hippie-dippy collectively run free school that teaches children to take initiative, and think independently and is steeped in working class, mutual aid praxis, but also teaches them the skills to be “respectable” and navigate bourgeois society when needed.  One of the classes I think would be super useful is code switching.