[TennTuxedo]

I agree that the subject matter taught is liberal, but I disagree with the schools being overwhelmingly authoritarian.

My wife is a teacher, who hates hiw they are forced to teach the curriculum, but she says that the parents have the principals and teachers in fear of their jobs and believe that their children can do no wrong.

[verga]

My wife is a teacher, who hates hiw they are forced to teach the curriculum, but she says that the parents have the principals and teachers in fear of their jobs and believe that their children can do no wrong.

Well said!

[robowombat]

Many public schools are good examples of ‘anarcho-tyranny’ in action. The true trouble makers and thugs could care less about suspension, expulsion or transfer to ‘alternate schools’. Various ethnic and cultural and now ‘sexual identity’ minorities whine and bully the administration so they are protected from any discipline and are ‘more equal than other’ as protected classes. For the rest they get the brunt of the endless micro managing rules and nanny state bullying that is what government does best. The latter is not new as I remember in about 1953 getting into hot water for daring to bring a box of Cracker jacks to school for morning and afternoon ‘snack’ in defiance of the ‘healthy food’ ukase that was in effect even then in spite of the crap the cafeteria served at lunch.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-—I agree that the subject matter taught is liberal, but I disagree with the schools being overwhelmingly authoritarian.——

Compulsory schooling has always been about control. It’s methodology is rooted in behavioral psychology. The chalkboard lessons are merely cover.

http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/