She describes her fear of other teenagers, and says, “Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I’m afraid of them and they don’t like me because I’m afraid” (Bradbury …show more content…
the most stressful thing [they’ve] done in school” and “convoluted” (Strauss). This type of teaching takes away the ability for teachers to teach the way they see fit, and as the author of the article says, “If a teacher loses the ability to tailor their instruction, we might as well have robots in the classroom who would be as cold and heartless as the computerized tests they give.” This also connects to the overwhelming and incomprehensible schooling that Clarisse describes, where she says, “[i]t’s a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom…” (33). It also connects to the prevalence of technology in Guy and Clarisse’s