Despite the fact that there are lots of talented and passionate teachers, I think it's fairly easy to describe the current American public school system as dyst

Despite the fact that there are lots of talented and passionate teachers, I think it's fairly easy to describe the current American public school system as dystopian. Kids spend all day mostly just rote learning, barely allowed to use their own initiative, moving at a pace that is, in a class of 30 children, statistically probably someone else's, and not allowed to socialize except during very prescribed times. I'm exaggerating for effect, of course, but all the social interaction I remember from school was time that was smuggled, it was not a system designed for social interaction. I agree that you can't replace relationships with computers, but I'm not sure public school is such a fertile ground for great relationships, at least not more than any number of plausible alternative systems.