something that got clarified in a DM conversation just now: the vast majority of the harm i think school does to children is completely invisible. it's lost creativity and energy that should be there but isn't. you have to have a sense of what's possible to feel its absence
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also, you know that thing where all the studies seem to show that "nurture" barely matters?
i think that's simply because they aren't controlling for the fact that all the kids are going to public schools, which are all very similar in their dysfunction (even the "good" ones)
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for sure. i also wonder if good parenting isn’t just so rare it’s statistically undetectable tbh