Draft #1

Youth around the world are fed up. They are slowly joining a movement and developing their criticisms of the modern education system. They are beginning to realize their grades are simply arbitrary letters or numbers which show little of one’s education. They have come to the conclusion that students aren’t learning anything in school. This movement has no leaders. It has no politburo or newsletter. The movement is one composed of autonomous individuals and loosely organized groups.

The Committee for the Creation of an Anti-School makes no attempt to represent the interests of students everywhere. They make no attempt to guarantee liberation. They will not lead the oppressed masses to freedom. We make no promises, we only have dreams.

We have no official membership rolls. No official websites. No official headquarters. We are but a banner taken up by discontented youths everywhere. We are an idea which students are free to embrace. We are a dream.

Theses of the Committee for the Creation of an Anti-School

1. Students are oppressed everywhere in their schools. Their voices are not heard. Society is ageist and the hierarchy in schools only reinforces this. The interests of the students and the interests of the administration are opposed to each other and will remain so until the administration has been destroyed, schools dismantled, and anti-schools created.

2. Compulsory schooling and the nature of modern education has ruined the child’s natural trait of curiosity. School has made students hate learning. They no longer enjoy doing something they are forced to do. Only the destruction of school and the creation of an anti-school can once again renew a child’s drive to learn and understand.

3. The school is increasingly becoming a tool of the capitalist state. Students aren’t educated anymore, they are trained for their future jobs in the commodity-spectacle economy. Schools function practically as workplaces, just the workers (students) aren’t paid. An anti-school would be inherently anti-careerist.

4. Students are increasingly turning to escapism, such as alcohol, promiscuous sex, drug abuse, self harm, etc. The nature of school has spawned several “disorders” such as ADD, ADHD, depression, social anxiety disorder, etc. and students inflicted by these “disorders” are being prescribed drugs which only serve to make them more passive.