Feminist Killjoy
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Condition 15: the ethical teacher and the collapse of collective punishment in BC schools
In Milgram’s experiment, 65 percent of people kept shocking a stranger on command. In the variation no one teaches — two authorities, one of them saying stop — the number fell to zero. One dissenting voice in the room stops the cruelty.
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On opposite sides of the same door in BC schools
Families and teachers are describing the same failure from two positions inside it. The system survives by keeping them from recognising each other.
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Be pleasant so others won’t get upset
What a twelve-year mortality study measured, and what it accidentally wrote down: the code of conduct every district hands a mother on her way into the room. You learn it in your hands before you learn it anywhere else. At the table you fold them in your lap, you soften your face into the shape…