Honestly, as an educator and a parent, I find the "sit still and conform" nature of school quite frustrating even though I did fine with it. I'm female, and I d

Honestly, as an educator and a parent, I find the "sit still and conform" nature of school quite frustrating even though I did fine with it. I'm female, and I do think that part of my doing fine with it is that I quietly went off to break the rules and because I was a "good kid" (white, female, high grades) no one even bothered to check on me to discover my extracurricular sins. But I want better for my kid than quietly and efficiently producing the answers the teacher wants to hear. That approach does not lead to excellence in science, mathematics, or the arts. It doesn't even serve those who do well in the system. What, after all, are the benefits to these girls who do well in school? All that education just to get jobs that pay worse? It's a racket.