So you're attacking 27% of our youth for choosing to be free. What ever nazi.
Keep religion and government the fuck out of our life's.
Dear
ScienceRocks
You can be free and still learn to conform to
basic rules in order to make classrooms and school policies
work for LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
For comparison, when you sign up for jury duty, people get treated like "numbers" in order to work with a LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
It's not to SUPPRESS people's freedom, it's to get that process DONE in ONE DAY.
Schools need to be able to operate to get a year full of teaching done,
by organizing people in CLASSROOMS and by CLASSES.
So of course, with that many DIFFERENT people, the process is not going to be perfect.
ScienceRocks I worked and directed a school program where we deliberately met with students one-on-one so each person COULD GET the individualized attention they needed. But in the classroom, this is designed for GROUP TEACHING.
If kids and parents want one-on-one individualized programs,
that's why there is homeschooling and special schools that work in SMALL GROUPS.
But at this time, the public schools group students in classes from 20-40 or more. So that's why things get "streamlined" and taught collectively, not individualized.
I'm totally for REDUCING the student:teacher ratio to closer to 10:1
but until then, you are dealing with teachers who face up to 6 classes a day of 20-40 students. It's hard enough to manage as it is.
Reduce the size of schools and classes first, and then maybe there WILL be MORE FREEDOM to interact one on one, instead of herding students around in large groups!