Public Comment

Age Segregation in Education Must End

Norma J.F. Harrison, Candidate for the Berkeley School Boar
Monday November 07, 2022 - 05:37:00 PM

It’s difficult for people to see what so painfully controls their – our – lives/minds. It’s so integral and so supported by our neighbors, our social institutions, our myths, our Owners’ armies. My campaign is about this fierce alienation from actuality, looking toward us becoming more and more able to deal with it, thereby overgrow the constant constructs forbidding our understandings, with our increasing knowledge not only of what actually goes on, but of how to figure out how to come out from under its horrible oppression, abuse of us all. 

We put up with the requirement to attend classrooms regardless how offended by that command we are – ‘behave properly toward being instructed’. We submit to this ‘compulsory free education’, ‘learning’ now firmly having been made into a commodity. Degrees, diplomas need to be displayed to prove having been educated. 

People need to want to be allowed to associate together. End age segregation. End the eight-hour day. Allow that learning – education occur constantly. Instead of institutionalizing the DISrespect for it – grading by schools, by our work performances, constant grading of us; permit people not to have to be judged – graded all the time. Allow us to grade ourselves, on site, together – o I did that well; oh I didn’t do that right; help me; …. We’re able to evaluate relative to the situations – without someone hanging over us alloting grades of our performance, behavior, … 

Allow us all regardless of age, to produce and enjoy the fruit of our labor.  

End that it’s our Owners who profit from our labor. 

End age segregation. 

End the 8hr day.