Factory schools are pressure cookers.

Five years after they are essentially eliminated as we transfer to individual learning, we will look back on the mind-blowingly destructive environments we have been conveniently dumping our children into for hundreds of years and shake our heads.

No, it has nothing to do with "public" vs "private". In both cases we throw our children to the wolves and demand that they behave like lambs while simultaneously supposedly trying to learn. When they instead begin to act like wolves themselves, desperately trying to find a way to survive in their environment, we medicate them.

Funny shit.

When the factories are gone, the medicines and disorders (add) will disappear behind them. (they only exist as a means of justifying the social structure of the factory school). Of course, so will the mass shootings but one would immediately assume that's a simple result of the, you know, lack of full classrooms to target. But that's not the point. The point is those kids won't feel that rage, because they won't be facing yet another day, month, year, or multiple years of daily humiliation and struggle for social survival in the jungle of factory schools.

When dogs are on leashes and forced to be in close proximity to one another, they are far more aggressive than when they meet up off-leash. You can continue to pander to college students and pretend like they are above such dynamics but that would be embarrassing so don't do that. It's just as gross, but it's sometimes less destructive because there is more individual freedom to escape. Unfortunately there is also the finality of "life after school" facing them, which is now a complete unknown because they've been taught to believe (or come to believe by virtue of it being their entire environment) that the opinions of all these other people are the most important thing, and they've been rejected by that group, so their built-up frustrations now hit a brick wall at the "end of the road they've known". (lost the plot a bit here... just gonna leave it...)

When you prevent a child from using his natural inclination to escape from destructive, dangerous situations, you begin the process of instituting lifelong helplessness and mental illness in that child, and guaranteeing he/she will never reach his/her "potential".

Your forced sociability kills children.

But don't worry about it. You're a "good person" with "good motivations" and that's all that matters.