Really? You don't see why being warehoused and told to shut up for 12 years, as opposed to being gently cultivated like an orchid, provided with interesting lit

Really? You don't see why being warehoused and told to shut up for 12 years, as opposed to being gently cultivated like an orchid, provided with interesting literature and opportunities for scientific observation and experimentation, might be different? I had a pretty good public school education. But I got to go to a fancy private school for one day when my parents were searching for options that would challenge me -- I was bored in one of my schools (even though it was in a foreign language) and they were afraid I'd start performing poorly just because I was bored. That one day at the private school... it was so pretty, and the chairs were comfortable, and there were so many books, and there was a tasty lunch cooked there at the school, with vegetables, and they had small classes, and people were so nice, and there were so many books! And their science labs worked! My high school gave me a great education despite the fact that we had so many students in classes that we sat on the floor or in the windowsills, we only had one set of history books for three classes of European history so we couldn't take them home, I never sat at a table during my 18 minute lunches because there weren't enough tables (and lunches were 18 minutes because they split the school into 3 shifts so we could all fit in the lunchroom more or less). It was a great education because of the teachers in the "good" classes. In the "lower" classes the teachers were not good and I still get crap for bringing a pillow to school so I could sleep in first period health. Yeah I'm super-great & made good choices & am virtuous and hard-working and "wired right." But I also didn't have to eat the school lunch crap, got some great teachers to counteract some of the warehousing I experienced in our public schools, and got exposure to STEM possibilities through a nearby college rather than wasting 5 years in stultifying math classes that my friends went through. Classes in which their grades went up once they started skipping and working with me during study hall instead.