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1. Linux Socialist (linuxsocist@icosahedron.website)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 06:36:02 EDT Linux Socialist

   Coding in schools is becoming the post-industrial equivalent of the shop classes that used to train students to become the next industrial factory workers. Instead now it's training them to work in the new underpaid code monkey jobs of the capitalist post-industrial hellscape.

   If you are a teacher teaching students to code, please teach them to try to go beyond this, teach them how to shape a better world and not to just fit into it the existing one that has no future for anyone.

   1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 08:33:44 EDT Danyl Strype

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      @linuxsocist was that really what woodwork and metalwork classes were for?
      1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 08:36:29 EDT Danyl Strype

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         @linuxsocist working on a production line doesn't require people to know how to do anything other than follow repetitive instructions.
         1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Mar-2018 08:37:44 EDT Danyl Strype

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            @linuxsocist teaching hand tools, like teaching code, teaches #DIY creation, not just reproduction