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In reply to the discussion: School Is a Prison — And Damaging Our Kids [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)26. So the socializing has no positive effect?
they should all be home-schooled?
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It doesn't have to be a prison. The main problem with education especially in the last few decades
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#1
Article doesn't say "industrial control", rather education systems evolved from "religious control"
Trillo
Sep 2013
#16
No coincidence that people are often refered to as products of the school system
The2ndWheel
Sep 2013
#25
Thank you. You've very eloquently elaborated the point I wanted to make.
Democracyinkind
Sep 2013
#41
There have been numerous examples of alternative approaches, many of which
Jackpine Radical
Sep 2013
#10
Some tax burdens are worth it. Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps are all tax burdens. They are
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#30
We really need intellectuals to stop coming up with "big, new ideas" every 10 minutes.
reformist2
Sep 2013
#20
It's the classic problem, if I may be a little un-PC, of too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
reformist2
Sep 2013
#44
There's a whole laundry list of things wrong with the school system we know now
NuclearDem
Sep 2013
#23
That is too narrow. One problem I see with our public school system is we have abandoned
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#33
I don't think I want to read this thread, even though it's an issue at the top of my priority list.
LWolf
Sep 2013
#36
Thank you for what you do LWolf. I got a call from my son's special education advocate and teacher
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2013
#38