Schools are all advanced panopticons. Through decades of grants in the wake of school shootings, all schools are working towards full observational coverage of their grounds. Administrations have become reliant on security cameras as a tool for discipline. Through laws like the Child Online Protection Act advanced internet surveillance systems have been deployed to districts far and wide. Initially built for censorship, they eventually evolved into surveillance tools as well, under the guise of safety. Every email sent, website visited, and every movement through hallways and in some cases in classrooms are monitored.
The prisonification of schools has been going on for decades. The last major advancement of this process was the creation of the “School Resource Officer” which is typically filled by actual cops. In some districts these cops are integrated within the discipline pipeline. They have and will continue to criminally charge students with crimes for behavior in schools, and their presence will encourage students, parents, faculty and staff to press charges against other students. It was only a matter of time before teachers became cops. The panopticon has been erected around them, and they have been transformed into its wardens.
The severity of this transformation will very from district to district and state to state. But these systems will disenfranchise kids across class lines and racial lines.
The last major advancement of this process was the creation of the “School Resource Officer” which is typically filled by actual cops.
It’s hardly a new development. We had armed and uniformed cops with permanent offices in our local schools over 40 years ago. Their primary role—from our perspective as students, at least—was to arrest native kids, and gently scold white boys who “smoked weed at home” (read: were the actual drug traffickers).
The prisonification of schools has been going on for decades.
this reminded me of this video, which describes how the prisonification/panoptification (which goes as far as the physical layout of schools) also encourages further violence
Schools are all advanced panopticons. Through decades of grants in the wake of school shootings, all schools are working towards full observational coverage of their grounds. Administrations have become reliant on security cameras as a tool for discipline. Through laws like the Child Online Protection Act advanced internet surveillance systems have been deployed to districts far and wide. Initially built for censorship, they eventually evolved into surveillance tools as well, under the guise of safety. Every email sent, website visited, and every movement through hallways and in some cases in classrooms are monitored.
The prisonification of schools has been going on for decades. The last major advancement of this process was the creation of the “School Resource Officer” which is typically filled by actual cops. In some districts these cops are integrated within the discipline pipeline. They have and will continue to criminally charge students with crimes for behavior in schools, and their presence will encourage students, parents, faculty and staff to press charges against other students. It was only a matter of time before teachers became cops. The panopticon has been erected around them, and they have been transformed into its wardens.
The severity of this transformation will very from district to district and state to state. But these systems will disenfranchise kids across class lines and racial lines.
It’s hardly a new development. We had armed and uniformed cops with permanent offices in our local schools over 40 years ago. Their primary role—from our perspective as students, at least—was to arrest native kids, and gently scold white boys who “smoked weed at home” (read: were the actual drug traffickers).
this reminded me of this video, which describes how the prisonification/panoptification (which goes as far as the physical layout of schools) also encourages further violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usSfgHGEGxQ
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I mean, modern schools took their model from factories. Preparing workers for schedule work, norms, hygiene, hierarchy, and all that.
So, the “advanced panopticons” is the logical evolution with the present day technologies. At least in the “first world”, after 9/11 and all that.
We both know is more complex, but yeah. Capitalism, as we all know in here, is fucked up.