“According to the new policy, the only things that can be displayed are signs or flags representing the United States, the State of North Carolina, New Hanover County, the school’s name or mascot, post-secondary institutions, school-sponsored events, sponsorships and approved curriculum.
Some teachers have criticized the policy as a clear violation of the First Amendment as well as questioning how art and history teachers are simply supposed to teach at all, with the board no longer allowing student art or flags from other countries to be displayed in class.”
Seems too convenient that New Hanover County is literally on the ocean and that one of the three “countries” in 1984 (and where we would be) is called Oceania.
And that text was published almost 75 years ago.
Maybe teachers in the county can put up posters in their classrooms that display the covers of books like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Handmaid’s Tale, and Brave New World and see what the board says about those.
Maybe even put up some of the more well-known quotes?
“Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change.”
– FAHRENHEIT 451
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which [leaders] control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
– BRAVE NEW WORLD
“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face.”
caffeinated rage 