In my unprofessional opinion the reason is to keep kids in seats. School is daycare. In addition, school is totally disconnected from reality and so kids have a

In my unprofessional opinion the reason is to keep kids in seats. School is daycare. In addition, school is totally disconnected from reality and so kids have a lot of trouble assigning importance to it and focusing on it. If you expect all those kids to teach themselves, we had very different experiences in school. Maybe college aged and up…maybe.