This is how I felt when first being informed that if I didn't go to first grade (it was a terrible school) my parents risked ending up in jail (maybe extreme, b

This is how I felt when first being informed that if I didn't go to first grade (it was a terrible school) my parents risked ending up in jail (maybe extreme, but I believed them when they said that.) School was always about indoctrinating children to be "good little germans[1]", rather than educating them or teaching critical thinking... and it appears things have gotten much worse since I graduated. I heard the other day a very young deaf child was punished or told to change her name because when she signs her name her fingers make a shape that is sorta like a gun. And fingers in the shape of a "gun" is a violation of their "zero tolerance policy on weapons." How can you expect kids to learn to be rational when this is the kind of irrationality you're subjecting them to on a day-to-day basis? [1] eg: compliant unquestioning citizens