Both boys were under government **compulsion** to be in each other’s company in the COMPULSORY government school! Government compulsion is backed by armed police threat, folks!
If children are treated like state prisoners why are we surprised that they behave like state prisoners????
And...Our Founding Father put FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY in our First Amendment and likely every state constitution reaffirms this basic human right. Yet....**ALL** government schools every single day TRASH this First Amendment human right to FREELY ASSEMBLE of the students and indirectly that of the parents.
ALL ( Yes, **every**) government schools in this nation are a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination!!!! They should be completely abolished. The sooner the better!
I hold every government teacher in contempt. There are NO good government teachers. If teachers didn't establish, uphold, and cooperate with this human rights abomination, they couldn't exist. ( Yeah! I do mean **all** government teachers. None are “good”. They are either stupid, evil or both.)
Tone down the drama a bit -- home schooling has not been banned in that area, and neither has private or parochial schooling. The state mandates there be some kind of schooling, not where it must take place. The parents opted with the "default" of public school, and got the least common denominator of society in that locale. Today kids are lucky if the parents even watch, unless it's at a home school.