Our solution for schools, as this book [1] documents, is to impose restrictive controls, to attempt to monitor any and every thing … the NSA does it … the schools do it.
Am I surprised?
No … what I am is saddened. I used to believe that America was a city on the hill, a light to the world. It is not … it is cold, rapacious, and often evil society … not founded on the rhetoric of democracy we have been taught … but rather of a greedy, selfish, cruel, and ultimately vicious society. As we treat our kids, they treat the world. It isn’t that the schools, highly vilified, didn’t do their job … they did. They produced a bunch of psychopaths … a population convinced of the moral superiority, and doing the morally repugnant.
[1] Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse by Annette Fuentes
(borrowed from http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/02/beacon-of-shame/)
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