ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]

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  • Realistically the only chance for leftist adjacent education (outside of boutique private schools) is in high school, and then only in advanced class.

    Frankly, all us education avoids the kind of critical thinking that’s actually an avenue to radical thought (especially since good writing requires, at the least, a flirtation with sophistry that would even piss some communists off. So instead we teach five paragraphs essays.

    This is to say, I wouldn’t worry about place so much as getting the kid (if they’re able) an IB or AP school program.

    Alternatively, make them work a year in fast food and then hand them Marx. Worked for me (though the pump was primed by an excellent history teacher in HS)