They Literally Threw in the Sink
Posted on Apr 18, 2010 - 10:35 PM by Ammerah Saidi in The Learning Curve
You know that line we say when someone goes overboard: "He threw in everything but the kitchen sink." Well, some boys at my school wanted to make sure to include the sink into whatever they were mixing because they ripped it out of the wall in one of their bathrooms.
What does this have to do with democratic education? It's a clear sign that the type of education they were getting was anything but. I remember reading
Ain't No Makin' It by Jay MacLeod and it was in this book that I first learned about how acts of disobedience can sometimes be a way for someone to regain or attain power he/she has lost. This made me look at gum chewing, skipping, cursing, graffiti, and now sink-pulling...
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