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school in the US https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-cult-of-smart?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDU4NTI1LCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMjY1NzAzNCwiXyI6IlcyTnZCIiwiaWF0IjoxNjE0NTc2ODk1LCJleHAiOjE2MTQ1ODA0OTUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi04OTEyMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.VLQRhdCjlnuoBKkkdpgc_A65Jtwzc8lOIW1vRzMx6Ec …

"I sometimes sit in on child psychiatrists' case conferences, and I want to scream at them. There's the kid who locks herself in the bathroom every morning so her parents can't drag her to child prison, and her parents stand outside the bathroom door to yell at her for hours..."

"I have heard stories of kids bullied to the point where it would be unfair not to call it torture, and the child prisons respond according to Procedures which look very good on paper and hit all the right We-Are-Taking-This-Seriously buzzwords but somehow never result..."

"You might object that they can run at home, but of course teachers assign three hours of homework a day despite ample evidence that homework does not help learning."

"School forces children to be confined in an uninhabitable environment, restrained from moving, and psychologically tortured in a state of profound sleep deprivation, under pain of imprisoning their parents if they refuse."