skooled
well, here I am at skooled. i haven't blogged about this because i wasn't sure whether it would be okay with the production crew, but apparently they aren't concerned about spoilers. not sure what that indicates.
but yes. i'm on a reality television show, on day 3 of shooting. the premise is that high school students and teachers trade places. they managed to get a great bunch of teacher personalities together, but despite reality television shows' best efforts to create conflict, the students (us) are all getting along pretty well. as for how we're getting along with our teachers (them), that's another story. we have five classes:
psyche: youth culture
issues: world issues (very loosely defined- the class is really activism 101)
phyz ed (the oh so hip spelling is intentional): overcoming obstacles
rock school: self-explanatory
life skills: debating
the kids are putting us through are paces, but we're giving them lots to handle.
I have to run off to my issues class now, so I don't have time to get into much detail, but I will mention that I am failing phyz ed, and I am the only student to have received an F in anything so far! :)
i am learning a lot. the whole experience certainly highlights how coercive school can be. and how much of that coersion is exercised through social force, and the deprivation of time, and especially reflective time.
feeling tired and a bit bent out of shape.
for the "comfort item" which we were encouraged to bring, i brought terry eagleton's "after theory." and it is definitely proving to be a comfort. course, i let everyone think that my fuzzy eeyore slippers are my comfort item. i'm only willing to reveal the depths of my geekdom in certain contexts.
but yes. i'm on a reality television show, on day 3 of shooting. the premise is that high school students and teachers trade places. they managed to get a great bunch of teacher personalities together, but despite reality television shows' best efforts to create conflict, the students (us) are all getting along pretty well. as for how we're getting along with our teachers (them), that's another story. we have five classes:
psyche: youth culture
issues: world issues (very loosely defined- the class is really activism 101)
phyz ed (the oh so hip spelling is intentional): overcoming obstacles
rock school: self-explanatory
life skills: debating
the kids are putting us through are paces, but we're giving them lots to handle.
I have to run off to my issues class now, so I don't have time to get into much detail, but I will mention that I am failing phyz ed, and I am the only student to have received an F in anything so far! :)
i am learning a lot. the whole experience certainly highlights how coercive school can be. and how much of that coersion is exercised through social force, and the deprivation of time, and especially reflective time.
feeling tired and a bit bent out of shape.
for the "comfort item" which we were encouraged to bring, i brought terry eagleton's "after theory." and it is definitely proving to be a comfort. course, i let everyone think that my fuzzy eeyore slippers are my comfort item. i'm only willing to reveal the depths of my geekdom in certain contexts.
posted by happenin fish at 2:22 PM
2 Comments:
i'm surprised folks would ask you to reveal your comfort item. any person's comfort item no doubt has a story behind it, and who knows if that story wants to be public, right? my "comfort" item definitely has a story, but it'd take forever to explain why i carry it everywhere (loose leaf tea and a bottle of lavender).
are you failing phyz ed? what are they making you do?! DETAILS!
well, if you really didn't want to reveal what your comfort item was, you wouldn't. they're not invasive. as much as the show is controlled, you also exert a lot of control- deciding to participate in the first place is your choice, and deciding what to bring is also a calculated choice made by many people.
i'll give more details in a separate post
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