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Kind of tangentially related to the tweet, but who thought it was a good idea to teach kids to associate sharing with punishment?
Natural consequence of capitalism, it isn't that sharing is bad - it's that sharing costs money. This leaves it to the individual to decide, and when money is tied to whether or not you eat/have a roof over your head... you get the picture.
I think it's because they don't just want one or several kids eating. It's distracting and the kids will get all whiny and fight. It's the teacher's job to teach them the subject and the parent's job to teach them to not be whiny and fighty.
Makes perfect sense to me, some things are best taught through punishment, I don't question this for a moment. And I could see that eating at the wrong time is something you want kids not to do. So, I completely agree with you.
But my question is not whether this should be punished at all, it's about which genius thought that sharing would be a good idea for a punishment. There's a million and a half different kinds of punishments the teacher could choose from, and they often choose "sharing" as the punishment, teaching kids to associate sharing with punishment. I don't care to question that punishment is in order, I just care about the kind of punishment that is often chosen.
It's not a punishment, or intended to teach anything outside the subject of the class, so I don't see how we do agree. It's just a rule that a subset of the class can't be eating, to prevent disruption.
How does this associate sharing with punishment?
By threatening to make them share as a punishment for eating in class.
Literal Pavlovian conditioning.