On: Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

[squigz]

> cage > isolation > interruptions > ridicule > shame

I wonder if this person's view on schools is at all biased.

[Eumenes → squigz]

I'd say someone who taught in NYC public schools for 30 years and won teacher of the year award is a good resource to learn from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto

[squigz → Eumenes]

So biased toward American public education, in New York City of all places.

For what it's worth, I look back on my time in school with relative fondness. Certainly I don't agree with anything like it 'being a cage' or feeling isolated from other people (????)

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I very much found it to be a cage.

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That's unfortunate for you