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   ellie (dyke arc) 🖤 :nb_heart: (roadblock161_@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 01:14:05 JST ellie (dyke arc) 🖤 :nb_heart:

   school is not about providing "opportunities" (i.e. work) to the beings who succeed in it, but about denying them to the beings who don't

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     ellie (dyke arc) 🖤 :nb_heart: (roadblock161_@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 01:14:03 JST ellie (dyke arc) 🖤 :nb_heart:

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     circling back to my original point, many things in society that are billed as "getting people in" are actually about keeping people out. it's all just bouncers calling themselves ferrymen. once I realised this it became quite obvious how this is everywhere in society. prescription meds, land ownership, citizenship, fucking money. these things don't allow you to cross a barrier. they *are* the barrier.

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     ellie (dyke arc) 🖤 :nb_heart: (roadblock161_@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 01:14:04 JST ellie (dyke arc) 🖤 :nb_heart:

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     I've said this before and I'm gonna say it again every time I see some fucker say that schools "provide education" thereby allowing for future employment.

     this is horseshit.

     the reason why a certain level of schooling is required for any job is because the structure of society, specifically *the existence of schooling itself*, has made it so. it's an arbitrary barrier imposed on employment to keep out those who are not worthy (itself an arbitrary concept determined by the state). people have been doing complex work without going to school for thousands of years.

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     ellie (dyke arc) 🖤 :nb_heart: (roadblock161_@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 01:14:04 JST ellie (dyke arc) 🖤 :nb_heart:

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     which is not to say that there aren't necessary skills to do certain kinds of work - there are! - but that school is by far one of the worst and most exclusionary ways to try and learn those skills.

     also an integral part of learning to do the work is actually just doing the work, which you only do in school for academia; lab reports, essays, research papers, shit like that.

     mark repeated this.