It is natural to assume that the people in the business of
educating children are highly committed to the dissemination of knowledge. That
many school-administrators would stand by, and even enable the continuance of
practices that compromise learning is difficult to believe; that fallacious
reasoning would be used could only be reckoned as highly bizarre, and
oxymoronic. Yet all this applies to dragging kids to school before their bodies
have woken up.
The complete essay is at “Educating
Kids in American Schools.”