Schools claim to be against bullying, yet they employ fear and
threats against noncompliance. The system bullies children into doing
what is against their will, like one big college hazing complete with
shame and humiliation. Either you do as schools say or you don't
belong.
Schools are supposedly against drug use, yet have no problem
sending troubled students to psychiatrists. These kids are then labelled with ADHD or ODD (even if they don't have
them) and given prescriptions for meds. Most of us instantly believe any
official diagnosis, and thus swallow pills without a second
thought. We are meant to protect our youth from chemicals they do
not need, yet we're so quick to pull the trigger and encourage drug
use. All in the name of education, when it's this false education
that ruins minds in the first place.
The United States boasts of being "Land of the Free and Home
of the Brave," while Canada is 'The True North, strong and
free." Meanwhile, public schools are compulsory and we're too scared to make a difference. Instead of overcoming pain and
adversity, we instantly swallow pills the moment depression hits. How
free and brave, true and strong, are we really?
Until schools are radically changed, or we present our countries
as they actually are, as places of excessive force and cowardice... We
are hypocrites.
