Yes, just like that!! It is really frightening but it rings a bell, doesn't it. I think if we all think back a bit we can come up with loads of examples just like that from our own schooling.

I really don't think I am way out there in thinking that is where it starts - the complacency, the ennui, the total lack of connection to the stark realities. We are trained in this from five or younger.

Since the use of psychotropic drugs prescribed to children under 12 went up 400% last year alone, it is only getting worse. But bring up the subject of approaching "education" a little differently (like unschooling or whatever) and people baulk - and often not ten minutes after launching into some story about how their child is struggling so in school because of this or that completely inane and contrived circumstance.... Meanwhile, it is as if you were some crazy renegade promoting child abuse when you say TAKE THEM OUT, stop dancing around in circles talking shite while the light is stamped out of your child's eyes.   DUHHHH.

The educational system is clearly beyond repair (yes, there are exceptions but few) and we need to step out of it. But like I said in my oh so bubbly and optimistic mood the other night, it isn't going to happen. Instead, they might curb the kid's TV schedule or bar McDonalds for a semester until the kids conform.

What will these kids do about the frightening state of affairs when their time comes - even less than we do, if that is possible.