• spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    This is awful but not anything new as far as I’m aware. My high school had it and that was just a little under a decade ago. It’s easy to look at these things in the context of the rise of authoritarian strong-man politics and go “holy shit that’s horrible” but it’s important to remember that most of these horrifying new dystopian features of society are actually the result of the decades of fear-mongering about drugs, crime and terror.

    • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Had them in the classroom? Our school would use them to sweep lockers occasionally. But it was when students were not near their lockers.