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The public school system is mostly about nullifying the individual. It's about arbitrary goals set for the collective. It's about authority and penalties for questioning it.
If it was about the individual, not as many individuals would find it so incrediby boring and irrelevant to their lives.
And even though I do find most public schools terrible places for an individual to actually learn things about their world and their place in it, I do agree with the poster who wrote that, ultimately, it's not usually the schools' fault.
It's a parent's responsibility to see that his or her child is educated. Most parents with an uneducated child have only themselves to blame.
