This book was a revelation for me when I first read it around 1980. It is about how schools were never really set up to make our children be: "The best that they could be" instead it was to create a class of slaves to do meaningless work until they died.
So, if you understand that the premise of schools was never to create the best and brightest but only to create a class of slave workers then you see the problem of public schools.
For example, public schools are only set up to teach in a certain way. If you have different learners like Dyslexics and others who might be 40% of any classroom they are going to fall through the cracks so to speak. If you look at our prisons, for example, they are full of different learners destroyed completely by the practice of "Shaming" in public schools. "Shaming' might help linear thinkers but is completely counterproductive and creates anti-social behavior in different learners for example.
So, for almost 1/2 of all students, public school completely destroys their lives and harms them instead of helping them be all that they can be.
So, our whole public school system doesn't exist to actually help the children that most need help but instead it gives a place of security to teachers who want to stay a part of the system.
Read "Dumbing us Down" if you want to truly understand just how bad public schools are for children here in the U.S.
It's one of the reasons why my children were home schooled from 1980 to 1985 using distant learning curriculum from:
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