What’s the point being made here? That if you take a picture of a building from a specific angle it’s difficult to tell the function of the building?
In his book "Discipline and Punish", Foucault argues that in the establishment of the modern prison, the mission of imprisonment shifted from punishing those who were imprisoned to reforming and disciplining them to become better citizens. The same organizing principles of command and control developed for "modern" prisons were applied to the "modern" school as well. I thought the game eerily demonstrated how similar prisons and schools look to one another. Both kinds of buildings are designed to limit access to the building and also egress.
The reason schools operate that way is simple: sheer inertia combined with just being impervious to reform.
This is the problem with attributing purposes for which our ancestors never intended.
Indeed there is no mention of Foucault in that article. I read through her blog more and this is the first one I found that mentions the book in question http://hackeducation.com/2020/07/20/surveillance (also an interesting read)
You don't know much about prisons seems to me. As in, once one know just a little how it functions, the above sounds either extraordinary stupid.
There is a simple fact that schools can be glorified daycare so that workers can offload the burden of childcare. For this purpose, a prison makes sense. Despite not being the most humane considering the kids didn’t do any crime worthy of rehabilitation.
aka "this is why we can't have nice things", juvenile edition :)
Sugar = good is no longer an appropriate heuristic given the change in nutritional availability - in fact it is now harmful - so we force kids to behave differently.
It's not clear that school is similar. Is it not the case that people learn better when they are adequately stimulated and engaged? Even if not, how far should we go in making kids miserable to force them to learn more? Do we need to make them miserable or is there an alternative? This is what I mean by asking why, and it's not clear to me what all the answers are (it's a very complex question).
I have literally ZERO sympathy for any teacher who has shitty (haha) bathroom policies.
Stopping making a big deal out of it will remove the disruption factor. If you can just get up and leave and nobody pays attention the act will quickly lose its effect.
> to get out of class
This suggests there's a bigger problem there if people are so desperate to get out as to fake a bathroom break, but anyway, why not let them? What's the harm? If these people are bored/disgruntled/etc then you already lost the game and no amount of force or coercion will change their mind.
This is why we can't have streets... ?!?
Jokes aside, you just provided a very good example of the prison mindset:
Instead of trying to understand the "problem" of students going too often to the bathroom, the default choice is to make the behavior prohibited.
A bit like https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Kilmainh...