I just don't get this "keep 'em quiet or drug 'em" mentality that's out there about kids.
When I had issues...I left in the morning after my chores and rode my bike until I had to help for dinner (no lunch). That burned off my "issues."
These kids are being strangled.
And we wonder why so many are fat and listless.
And alienated.
The "keep 'em quiet and drug 'em" mentality seems to trace to teachers. FReeper teachers, take no offense -- I'm not talking about you.
Teachers who don't know their subject, can't engage the kids to teach it effectively and, thus, can't maintain control of their classroom. The whole motivation for the public education hierarchy is no longer to "teach", but to "control".
What has happened to public education (recognizing that the subject school in this thread is a Catholic school) is an absolute shame.