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If nothing else I despise class layouts like that where in order to see what the topic is you have to crane your neck that much.
The “open room” layout that “education” specialists made, not to actually promote learning, but to remove the “constricted” feeling of the standard forward facing layout.
It doesn't have to be forward facing just don't angle things 90 degrees or more from where anyone will be sitting!
Two entire walls could be used for teaching purposes and the class could be orientated like this.
Door to the room is behind everyone to disturb things less, teacher has a far wider angle on the room, two entire walls to use for whatever reason, throw in a pull down projector screen above the teacher desk if needed. Means nobody ends up with a neck of a 70 year old by the time they hit 17.
This looks like it could be a military badge.
I know what is actually happening with it. They found out students could study on their own without a teacher and the open classroom design worked. Then people who disagreed demanded the classes be taught the same way to see if the open classroom works. Bureaucratic ideas are always stupid.
My experience with school was that teachers designed the classroom to be whatever was most comfortable or "fun" for them, not the students. We had one teacher who moved everything around the room every few months because she liked the fresh feeling you get from redecorating. I'm also convinced this shitty open design format lowered my already poor marks in at least two classes between middle and HS. Not only from neck turning but from not wanting to sit at a table staring at another annoying student who wanted to be there even less than me.
The entire classroom structure is inherently bad for male learning period. Men learn better in hands on active instructions, this is why they take to math, engineering, surgery, etc at far higher rates than women. Women benefit from the sit still and listen method because they are often more auditory and passive learners, this is also why women tend to take notes more than men because men recreate the information internally and then replicate while women use repetition and passive learning through writing down what is said or displayed to memorize the information.
I retain most of what I read. The retention goes up if I write notes. It's a plan and structure. I recreate the scene.
Open-room classes also facilitate group work/projects (i.e. you do all the work while the girls gossip).
It's pedagogy. They're not interested in educating you they're interested in psychologically manipulating you. Negative peer pressure is a solid tool for accomplishing that.