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Public schools become cesspools of psychological ill-health, in various forms, precisely because it's an environment that encourages the spread and growth of these 'contagious' psychological malfunction memes. Children need adult attention, lots of it, to grow up healthy. But our culture has created the necessity for both parents to be primarily involved in economic activity (through such factors as feminism, greed at the top of the economic scale, economic declines linked to inflation of a currency not supported by specie, and other mistakes). So we evolved a cultural mechanism of raising children by proxy, using a mass-production strategy (one adult to 30 children or so).
And then we disguised it as "education". If it were education, it would start when children had the attention span and interest to learn, and stop when the required knowledge and skills had been transmitted. Instead, it starts when children are just old enough so that we can get away with separating them from their parents, and stops when they are legally adults.
This, of course, is because what's really going on here is that the next generation of workers needs to be trained in docility, and the current one needs to be kept focused on their work instead of on their kids.
But you don't want this for you, and your kids. Because it's training, for the bottom of society, to stay at the bottom of society, for the benefit of the top. It teaches you how to be a worker drone. But who would want that?
That's why I'm busily trying to get into the doctoral programs at MIT/Harvard/Caltech/Cornell/etc. Because my own public school upbringing removed from me the ability to take the kind of risks, and make the kinds of connections, that truly get you ahead in this society (through business ownership, investment, money management, etc.), but membership in the technical elites is a decent backup strategy.
Most people in this culture spend their lives making someone else rich while they just get by, and worse yet, making someone else happy and carefree while they remain weighed down with work and worry.
Public school is the first step in this process. Don't let your children take that step.
(Recommended reading: "Summerhill", by A.S. Neill)
And then we disguised it as "education". If it were education, it would start when children had the attention span and interest to learn, and stop when the required knowledge and skills had been transmitted. Instead, it starts when children are just old enough so that we can get away with separating them from their parents, and stops when they are legally adults.
This, of course, is because what's really going on here is that the next generation of workers needs to be trained in docility, and the current one needs to be kept focused on their work instead of on their kids.
But you don't want this for you, and your kids. Because it's training, for the bottom of society, to stay at the bottom of society, for the benefit of the top. It teaches you how to be a worker drone. But who would want that?
That's why I'm busily trying to get into the doctoral programs at MIT/Harvard/Caltech/Cornell/etc. Because my own public school upbringing removed from me the ability to take the kind of risks, and make the kinds of connections, that truly get you ahead in this society (through business ownership, investment, money management, etc.), but membership in the technical elites is a decent backup strategy.
Most people in this culture spend their lives making someone else rich while they just get by, and worse yet, making someone else happy and carefree while they remain weighed down with work and worry.
Public school is the first step in this process. Don't let your children take that step.
(Recommended reading: "Summerhill", by A.S. Neill)