Today I learned of this old op-ed by a New York City teacher from 1991.
https://saintkosmas.org/gatto-i-quit-i-think
After damaging the learning by two of my children I have often wondered why our school systems still insist on teaching by age instead of ability. This provided some understanding.
"School has become too vital a jobs project, contract-giver and protector of the social order to allow itself to be “re-formed.” It has political allies to guard its marches.
That’s why reforms come and go-without changing much. Even reformers can’t imagine school much different."
As a libertarian with kids, do you send them to government school?
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«Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people»
― Michel Foucault