@dannotdaniel @pixplz For a majority of US kids in US schools that don't respect them or treat them as actual people, the priority is surviving a system designed to condition and sort you into various pipelines destructive to your future. It's not an environment designed to help you understand the principles and skills to keep yourself & others you care about safe. It's to judge whether you're a suitable white collar drone or belong on the pipeline to debt, homelessness, and/or prison. There is nothing wrong with using a bullshit machine to reduce how much the system can harm you.