[UA] UAJ Characters

[Timothy Toner]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Craig" <wytchfynder at hotmail.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 3:35 PM
Subject: [UA] UAJ Characters


> How about a shoolkid cabal that actually runs the school? The teachers are
> mindwiped puppets; the chess club run things with their yearbook voodoo
dolls
> and abominable servant bodyguards. Anorexia-as-epideromancy makes a cool
angle
> too - it's a legit form of self-harming, after all.

I have a secret theory that I share with every new teacher who comes to my
school, and so far, nothing has occured to prove me wrong.  In the
neighborhood where I work, kids head right to school, and then right home,
lest they catch a bullet.  Thus, the only time they have to socialize is,
you guessed it, at school.  So I'm thinking:  they have no frickin' clue why
they're here.  Oh, sure, they can dispense the rote answer of  'get an
education, get a good job,' but for some of these kids, as they look at
their parents' lives, it's as big a lie as Santa.  Instead, they see school
as a grand event, when they're brought out of their bunkers and allowed to
interact with kids just like them, and life is good and dandy.  But then,
perversely, these adults tell them to pipe down.  Shut up.  Behave.  Listen,
dammit!  It's like taking a kid to a candy store, and telling him, "Smells
are free."  And by the time they DO get it, they're parents, telling their
kids to come right home after school.

So take that idea to the next level--to a kid, school isn't school.  It's a
war.  It's a pageant.  It's a comedy AND a tragedy.  And you have these
Ogres called teachers who lay the reality smackdown on you when you push it
too far.  They don't have to be children of the corn.  They can just be
kids, and it's just as creepy.


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