Most of us read Lord of the Flies at some point in high school. Or at least we pretended to. It was often presented as a sort of dive into the worst parts of human nature, showing what would happen in a world of children in a tribal setting and no authorities. But as it turns out, the circumstances of the writing of the book are more complicated than that. Add to the fact a real world example of kids becoming stranded on a desert island who didn't go to war with each other, and you've got some claims that go against the outline presented by the admittedly fictional story that is Lord of the Flies.
Sometimes teachers want to prove a point about the inherent decay of law and order when kids are left to their own devices, and time and time again things don't actually go as they'd planned. For instance, there's this tumblr thread about a teacher who underestimated her students in a social experiment in class. This is the type of circumstance that leads directly into this informative Tumblr Thread.
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