I was just browsing through a few sociology blogs this morning, as I am wont to do, and came across this post introducing me to the term 'school-aganda' - obviously a portmanteau of 'school' and 'propaganda'. And while it was focused on a specific topic (the mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary) it did raise the wider question of how much of our own views of teaching and learning are informed not by experience but b y media portrayals. Alyssa Lyons comments, " The show suggests teachers, students, and administrators fight together against the big, bad, system to persevere another day. And while this is a chapter in the story, it's not the only one. Sometimes, the school and its white teachers and administrators themselves are the big, bad, system."
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