> I think the pandemic has shown us just how much school sucks, and how ineffective and incompetent the political system behind it truly is. It's a tool to con

> I think the pandemic has shown us just how much school sucks, and how ineffective and incompetent the political system behind it truly is. It's a tool to condition people to become obedient little serfs who don't question authority so they will become good cogs in the corporate/industrial machine. It's also there to be daycare so parents can go be good cogs in the corporate/industrial machine. Education is a distant third at best. At least this is how it is in America. All these people talking about the socializing are probably the same people who hate telework and miss the office because that's where they do a lot of their socializing. It's completely orthogonal, socializing should not be dependent on school or work, and maybe if they are such a huge part of our life we either admit they are broken and restructure them, or commit to less time dedicated to these activities.