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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • Open Source: The tools we reach for our children become the basis for a lot of their lives, we shouldnt be forcing them into life long expectations of subscriptions and surveillance)

    More Democratic: Students, staff, parents, and the community all should have measurable and legally binding power over how the school functions

    More immersion less memorization: More emphasis of people learning how to do and be less on passing tests. Ideally people should leave school with practical skill to do something, including academic research, scientific discovery, civic engagement, financial planning, wood working, etc

    I really like the idea of more volunteer mentors for specialities and AI for shaping reusable content for children to learn from too. So rather that say a teacher assigning homework from a preselected workbook and reading assignments from a book, instead students are assessed and have reading, video, interactive content shapped for them to get prerequzite knowledge from to help prepare them for activities with mentors.


  • Watching the trotsky movie radicalized me and getting to see some real examples from schools in the US. The idea that students should have a actual, measureable, legally accepted vote in how their school runs feels immoral not to have.

    At least a seat on the board. Make the student body president a meaningful thing to vote on instead a prom king figurative role!

    That said I do think parents and the community have a right to representation of their interests as well, so we may disagree on your last point.



  • Yeah the fear mongering works. I was getting cease and dissits, BT traffic blocked, etc when I was using to get public domain content back in 2000 something. Now every that does it talks about how to do it safely. Use a VPS in a non-five eyes country with Tor enabled and logging disabled, download to your tails desktop and sneaker net to main machine, from there use media server to host it in your network, blah blah blah

    Or use duck duck go and click through a dozen links and stream it.

    Heck even peertube users get flak from governments because it could be seen as “redistribution”.

    P2P is almost always a better for user technology, but centralization is favored by governments for control and corporations for rent seeking.





  • For economic success I recommend finding a niche, find somethings others want done but don’t want to do themselves and hopefully you enjoy.

    School may or may not be needed from there. Its useful if credentials are a preq for the industry but there are other ways to learn some things like on the job and volunteer work.

    I know things like greencore, peacecore, americore, joining the national guard are fulfilling for a lot of people looking for that “greater than themselves” expirence.