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In my Newsletter on 28 March 2025, I wrote :
Authority being Lorded as a Method to maintain Control through Intimidation is barbaric and antiquated heathenism on the level of Ghengis Khan. Teachers practice this in classrooms without their knowing it.
A Child sits beneath an Adult who stands over them to Teach? In Ancient Greece, we call that dishonorable, disgraceful, and abusive. Which is why the Philosophers had Amphitheaters. So the Students would Sit above the Professor at an Advantage.
This standing over children teaches them in violation of Equal Footing.
Adults should sit on the floor with the Children.
What message are we sending our Children when we build the classroom in this way? It is no wonder that we are raising a Raping Culture. Our classrooms are silently communication “Rape” in how they are set up in violation of Power and Lording Advantage over others.
Add in there the “legal mandate” that Children have to attend in disregard for their Consent? This is Rape.
Typical of a Roman Classroom. The problem starts right there.
I delve deep into the Ethics and Psychology of this Subject in Salmon of Knowledge. Children are highly tuned in to this Unfair, Hypocritical and Double Standard Treatment. EVERY child KNOWS this. EVERY one of us KNOWS what I am talking about.
“IT’S NOT FAIR!” This is the core lesson of life. “Adults take Advantage of their Advantage over Children and are BIGots. And every Child knows it.
What are we teaching our Children? The Adult who carries away a screaming child because the Adult doesn’t know how to listen and help the Child find their Words?
The Adult who non-consensually drags the child to the store when the child does not want to go?
Consent is violated 100 ways to Sunday by most adults, teaching them that Consent and Boundaries and Respect don’t matter.
This is the greatest “Generational Trauma” that we are not talking about. We teach our children how to rape when we disrespect and ignore their Consent, their Voices, and their Boundaries.
You want to change the World? Collectively change the Parenting Standard in Home and Classroom.
Anna’s Philosophical Coffee Work-A-Long Workbook Series is a Group-Work Book Walkthrough that transforms every Classroom, Coffee Shop, Church, MeetUp, and PTA meeting into a “Parent-Teacher-Healer-Leader” Collaborative Effort to Ethically and Mindfully Raise the Bar on doing better for our Children.
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