I partly agree, but isn't that more of an issue about children being barbarians than about school being a barbaric institution? As you say, adults only have co

I partly agree, but isn't that more of an issue about children being barbarians than about school being a barbaric institution? As you say, adults only have control over superficial parts of these dynamics. I'm dubious that they can exercise more control without extensive restrictions on the youths freedoms and in turn their development. So these problems just seem inevitable wherever groups of children or teenagers meet.