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Re: Pharmocological Oppression II(Score: 2) by Domkitten(saradevil@saradevil.com) on Jul 15, 2004 - 09:30 AM | In short this continues to disgust me. My level of disgust has not gone down since you last pointed this out Squid, and it’s appreciated that you have.
However, in the long run, the enforcement of a drug culture in our schools is so ironic it makes me want to scream. Especially since I was raised during the famous Just Say No phase Nancy was going through. As I recall not only was that a huge country wide initiative, the schools were at ground zero for the anti-drug propaganda. This was very effective for me since my mother was an addict and an alcoholic, I could just look at her to see the dangers of drugs. I also watched rather helplessly, as when the intuitive finally and inevitably failed, my brothers and sisters (all younger) became addicts in various forms. Oddly, I was an addict too, I was addicted to orgasms. Loved em, couldn’t get enough of them. I’m convinced that it was the orgasm that kept me from becoming a drug addict. In many ways the orgasm produced many of the same effects of marijuana, and heroin, you feel insurmountable pleasure, mellow, and giddy, and relaxed for several hours afterwards.
Say no to drugs was easy for me, since they never preached about sex in school, I had no idea that masturbation would eventually come under fire for being bad, but fortunately was old enough to seriously exam and question the knowledge of the adults around me at the time to come to the conclusion that they could all go to hell, cause I loved me, biblically.
And, here we are, ironically, 20 odd years later telling all the children in school, say yes to drugs, if you don’t we will put daddy in jail. I mean, seriously, is there nothing that we can present to children as an alternative to pill popping as a way of modifying their behavior. Tie this in with the creepy, and incredibly destructive policies that are created by “No child left behind” and the Iraqi War, and you have a real time bomb. Now, teachers have incredibly high standards of education that they must meet, and a disruptive child can cost a school lots of money. If your not aware “NCLB” requires that all schools meet a standardized test level of 96% or better. When I was in school testing in the 96% made you above average. Now if you can’t make it, your school will loose millions of dollars, teachers will be fired, and children who do make the test scores will move to other schools. Oh, and if your school is on probation you get to put a sign on the door that says so, so everyone knows you’re a failure.
Now how does all this, plus the Iraq war lead to increased pill popping and limited opportunities? Simple. Less money for schools means less after school activities and less diversity in the school curriculum. It may come as a surprise to some that not all children learn the same way. Some children are more geared towards visual learning, while others learn from listening, and still others learn from logical progression. Take away a teachers time in class and she cannot diversify her presentation to meet the needs of all her students. Take away the art teachers salary and he sure as hell isn’t going to stick around. Take away band and you have an entire generation of students who could have been using that access energy to practice instruments, and perform, and get college scholarships, that turn to pills. Take away gym and after school sports activities for elementary school students and you have fat kids who take pills and play video games.
Where does the money go, to vouchers that can be used at private schools, and to the corporate entities that are “rebuilding Iraq” (I’m sorry, but I can’t think that the reconstruction of Iraq is GW favorite administrative sarcasm, I mean seriously, they are going to be rebuilding forever as long as someone is there to keep blowing it up, it’s just a monetary hole).
And, fat kids, kids that are unmotivated, kids that are not being taught in a way that they can understand, where to the end up, on the wrong side of a bottle, taking pills to modify behavior. And how convenient it is that in an administration that has almost completely destroyed the opportunities for children to use access energy is now purposing policies to medicate the same. It’s evil.
I say, push orgasms, band, art, culture, science, sports, gym not drugs. |
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