[TomSmedley]

It is the institutionalized child who is artificially retarded in their educational and social development.

True. The brighter kids in public school who resist the retardation are made to pay in other ways. Bullies serve the same function in public schools as rapists do in prisons -- cowed, humiliated, and beaten inmates are easier to manage, less likely to think for themselves, less likely to escape. See Ayn Rand's gruesome essay The Comparchicos of the Mind, in her Anti-Industrial Revolution.

[wintertime]

Bullies serve the same function in public schools as rapists do in prisons — cowed, humiliated, and beaten inmates are easier to manage, less likely to think for themselves, less likely to escape.

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The above is a perfect example of how we must change the language about institutionalizing children ( especially in government schools)

Recently, I invented a two new ones. :)

1) Children at school bus stops look like day laborers waiting for their bus.

2) School buses look like prison road gang buses.

These two should get the government school defenders in a lather, and whining that I have **personally** insulted them. :) :) The madder they get, the more I laugh!