Dreary

"Few institutions are considered so universally to have failed as our schools, yet in spite of this dreary record a prescription of increased dosage is making its way to the national agenda. The specifics of this proposal: a) Schools should be open year-round, avoiding long summer holidays for children. b) Schools should extend from 9 to 5, not dismissing students in mid-afternoon as is currently the case. c) Schools should provide recreation, evening meals, and a variety of family services so that working-class parents will be free of the 'burden' of their own children. The bottom line of these proposals is reduction of the damaging effects of 'freedom' and 'family' on a subject population."
-John Taylor Gatto,
"The Exhausted School: Bending The Bars Of Traditional Education"