My comments weren't directed at US schools and had nothing to do with the quality of schools. I oppose the very idea of schools and standardized testing in general. I went to an expensive private school and I entered college with the ability to write papers well above any of the people from public school. I was also constantly in trouble and almost expelled on multiple occasions.
What I meant to say was that the concept of school in general offends me. Before college, school is a day-prison where children/teenagers are kept off the streets because their parents are all forced to spend their day in a different day-prison.
At least college gives the impression of freedom by allowing you to choose which classes to take at what times (within certain limits).
I understand that many people like school but for me growing up it was just another way society thought up to torture those of us who would rather have spent our youth outside playing, instead of being forced to endure the smooth, cold walls of the conformity factory.
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