{"id":901,"date":"2026-06-15T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2026-06-15T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:03:11","slug":"late-night-thoughts-on-schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Late night thoughts on schooling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used to think, \u201cthank <em>god<\/em> physical disciplining in schools went away and the experience was safer for kids\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I thought, well if some kids are getting abused at home, like they were previously, it just gives their trauma room to manifest in that safer school environment. Where the ugliest manifestations can hinder schooling more than physical disciplining would\u2019ve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I thought, but maybe if that safer school environment could now also treat kids as humans pending discovery of some form of intelligence I.e. who are the builders, movers, thinkers, performers, carers, strategists, artists?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realised that the factory of schooling has remained the same, minus some cruelty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I wondered, \u201cwhy did we stop halfway on the journey to giving kids dignity?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think, \u201cthank god physical disciplining in schools went away and the experience was safer for kids\u201d. Then I thought, well if some kids are getting abused at home, like they were previously, it just gives their trauma room to manifest in that safer school environment. Where the ugliest manifestations can hinder schooling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}