[ladylib]

Today's public school students are being pressured to pull the fat from the fire (NCLB high-stakes testing) so that highly paid school officials can keep their jobs and property values don't plummet. Kids are on edge, under pressure, and becoming more difficult to deal with in the schools. Many parents are starting to realize that it's not worth the grief, hence the steady growth in homeschooling or private schools that aren't governed by NCLB.

Then, of couse, you add to all that pressure the asinine zero-tolerance policies schools have adopted over the years. I predict that by the end of this decade, public schools will become the educational venue of last resort.

[Aquinasfan]

I hate to think of the kids who go through this, year after year. I haven't forgotten, although I left school more than 20 years ago. I spent much of my twenties trying to figure out what the hell had happened to me.

Gatto helped me figure it out. I'm still very angry. But at least now I understand why.