11 Photos From Inside US Schools That Show We're Living In A Dystopian Fever Dream
In the US, the education system is...rocky at best. Debates about banning books and erasing parts of history are rampant; safety is a constant growing concern; and teacher's salaries are abysmal at best.
Any experience I hear about from inside the halls of a high school sound like a YA dystopian novel. Here's what it's like from the perspective of students and teachers:
1.In this school, students shared videos of police officers keeping a watchful eye over their lunch hour while sitting in lifeguard towers. Not only is this vantage point giving harsh Big Brother energy, but it also feels unnecessary. A security guard is certainly enough to "break up fights," as the student who shared this image implied is the officer's purpose.
2.This district considered how they would best prepare young students for the potential of a school shooting. Their solution? A catchy nursery rhyme that reminds kids to "go behind the desk and hide" while they "wait until it's safe inside."
This nation is a dystopia.Texas #school nursery rhyme in case of a Mass shooting
3.In September 2021, four schools in Rigby, Idaho's Jefferson School District 251 banned backpacks from their halls after a 13-year-old student was found with a gun in hers. So students started carrying their textbooks, notebooks, and general necessities in wagons, shopping carts, fishtanks, popcorn machines, and more.
4.Remember when you read Fahrenheit 451 in school and your teacher asked what the world would be like if we weren't allowed access to books? Well. After new strict rulings fell in Florida that severely limited what true information could be shared with students through readings, teachers began covering their book displays or removing books from them entirely out of fear of retaliation from the district or law.
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5.In Florida, the Florida High School Athletics Association (FHSAA) made an unprecedented move by recommending student athletes report details about their menstrual cycle to administrators. Before then, the students would complete a physical exam with a doctor and the doctor would sign a form that allowed them to play. Now, the FHSAA wants documents from physicals given directly to them, which has led some parents to question what they plan to do with this information and why they suddenly need it now, The New Republic reports.
Florida wants to require all female high school athletes to turn over their menstrual data, which can be viewed by administrators. This is downright dystopian. A final decision to enact this will be made at a FHSAA meeting later this month.https://t.co/0zLcNbC0la