A brutal and risky lesson of life taught in school.
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I'm going to be really mean here and say, are you really serious right now?
The bystander effect is a huge problem, and it's a huge problem in the real world. By teaching people what this effect looks like, and how violating authority to do what's right is good.
Obedience to authority not only runs contrary to good morals ("I was just following orders") it also runs contrary to the fiery red, rebellious American spirit.
The bystander effect helped push the COVID response. The people who refused to bow to authority, us, we stood up and told the authority "no".
Should we be "failed" for standing up?
It's school. It's supposed to teach you lessons. This was a valuable lesson taught to those kids, in an environment that was safe for them to learn it. The point of school is to introduce the world in a safer way, with a safety net, so that when they fall they can learn how to pick themselves up.
You're so off base here, it's not even funny or cute or even realistic. This teacher did the right thing, and did so in a way that no one was harmed and taught this person a life long lesson that needed to be learned.
This is one of the few times schooling has actually done its job at teaching a child.
are you really serious right now?
damn right with the first, but it was realistic.
"we" were outcast and shunned by the majority and STILL are over it.
many of us either got bullied into excess/useless procedures just to get paid or outright terminated for declining a medical procedure.
many of us have lost contact with our own bloodlines over this.
No, quite frankly this was a really poor choice and how we got into this shit in the first place.
You absolutely do not want to tell children that standing against authority and other bystanders suffers no consequences if they're morally right.
We were morally and scientifically right.
You need to teach them that standing against the authority and the mob can ABSOLUTELY have SEVERE repercussions and impress that the child should STILL have the fortitude to go through with it if they believe it.
That is what purebloods did.
Purebloods didn't identify it was just a random shit test and declined the procedure and have our employer and families congratulate us on doing a good thing.
Purebloods stood firm in the face of overwhelming consequences and followed through.
I don’t think he’s off base at all, I think he’s pointing out the lesson in a lesson. What I hear him saying is that not only are people willing to stand by in the real world, but we are increasingly seeing people in the real world punished for standing up for what is right. Refuse the jab, the right thing to do, lose your job and the right to travel. Live in Sweden and fight against immigrants raping your wife, they go free and you get arrested for being a bigot.
Failing Hanna would be the perfect representation of the current real world and that is scary.
Doesn’t mean stop standing up, but the person you’re replying to is correct and accurate and has made an excellent point.
this is exactly what I said.
It's easy to do the right thing when there are no consequences (which is what these students "learned" when the teacher failed to follow through with the threat)
it is REALLY FUCKING HARD to do the "right" thing when you suffer severe personal consequences rather than sit idle.
That should be the lesson. Is saving the fish worth the F.
If you really want apples to apples with covid.
The threat should have been everyone in the class fails if one person moves. That's how the government explained it. We're literally killing elderly by not getting the shot. Our peers used that to shame all the purebloods.