All posts tagged: Schools

What’s wrong with schools

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By Monica Chen  Schools have become so bad in the past decade that some fundamental things need to be said: The point of schools is to teach, to impart knowledge, to provide a space and the support for kids to learn and to be curious, to imagine.  Schools and teachers currently are controlling and abusive when they should be nurturing and open. Teachers are there for the kids, not the other way around. I cannot believe these things have to be said, that these basic parameters for good and bad when it comes to the educational system have to be recognized. It should be about kids. Teachers have horrifyingly, willfully made it about themselves. Here are some negative changes that I have noticed with schools in the past decade. Unfortunately, I have not seen anything positive:  1. Politics in every part of the educational system, even in math workbooks. Harder to identify than Critical Race Theory but it is obvious. There is no room for imagination and learning. Students are made to swallow a ton of …

“Lawn Boy” IS pedophilic. Here’s why. (Explicit)

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By Monica Chen  The author of “Lawn Boy” and his supporters say parents who want the book removed from libraries have not read it, and do not put it in the right context.  Alright, I read the book. Its pedophilic, exploitative and abusive elements go beyond the swear words and the sexual passages.  To sum up the news surrounding “Lawn Boy”: A mother in Leander, Texas, took her son to a school board meeting and read passages from the book out loud last September. That video is here. Jonathan Evison, the author of “Lawn Boy,” posted a statement to the publisher’s web site, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. That statement is here. Evison and his supporters want to say the book is a coming of age story and add an extra layer of LGBT romance to defend and cover up its actual attack on boys, on young men, on the freedom that kids should have while they grow up. The gay romance is not important to this book at all. Basically, the book reads like …