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The app for independent voices
Your story about the conformity test reminded me about a similar experience I had way back in elementary school..........
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That particular day we were being tested on our ability to read and draw clocks. Simple stuff, and the first few questions went by just fine. 6 oāclock? Big hand 12, little hand 6. Easy Peazy!
The issue came when I was asked to draw 4:30. Because I understand how clocks work, I put the big hand on the 6 and the little hand halfway between 4 and 5.
BZZZZZZT
I was ā¦
This is why I fought my high school years of imprisonment by striving to complete assignments in a manner by which I would both fulfill the requirements but completely subvert the presumptions. This worked great anywhere with a creativity potential. Give them what they say they want, but prove the failure of the mold in the process.
I remember doing something similar -- for example, during the first Iraq war my teacher wanted a paper about the importance of stopping warmongering governments quickly. (Basically trying to compare Saddam to Hitler)
Instead I "wondered" if the world would have come to the defense of native Americans if only they had the technology to see what early Americans were doing to them.......