School is the basis of our oppression.
It can never be fixed. School in 'socialism' too, so far only replicates school in capitalism. Cuba, as much as it deserves our reverence, is growing a generation of people who will be alienated from revolution because of school. Age segregation is as much of service to submission as are the other separations which further our hostilities to each other. All people regardless of age can learn and teach together; all people in the struggle for actual revolution can teach for transformation, not for replication - as school does - of society as it exists.
Cuba is transitional, working for socialism communism. Marx used the two terms interchangeably; the years of redefinition by sects' behaviors does what The Capitalists do to that language; removes and distorts its content. We NEED those words. As well as worker ownership of means of production, and the implied thereby control of what gets produced, under what conditions, in what relationship to the care of Earth, also required is the dictatorship of the proletariat....is why we struggle for liberated populations - which school can never produce as long as it's segregated.
As a Berkeley School Director - school board office holder - I would embed the forum for discussion of the ways to go toward letting people enjoy education rather than suffer it, into the City's functions. The direction would be toward making education integral rather than a separate part of our lives, a painful part. Creating the means for testing and utilizing workable options would derive from this forum; the goal is, like socialism goes toward the withering away of the state, the withering away of the school, both supplanted by replacement customs of us being here on Earth, studying, building, making, caring, playing, relaxing, - the full range of living for ALL of us, attainable only through economic justice and honest, pleasant objectives. We need to stop punishing ourselves with jobs , school.... our superficial oppositions to what's going on.
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