The US public education system was designed by industrialists to indoctrinate children to factory work. This is why everything is on strict schedules governed by bells and why the culture is to treat the teacher (manager) as an unquestionable authority figure.

This isn't speculation or conjecture, it's a fact documented in black and white and published to the public record for the world to read.

it’s a fact documented in black and white and published to the public record for the world to read.

Got any reading recommendations?

Roll call, no tolerance for tardiness, class ends when I say it does, not at the bell, etc really checks out

10 year olds be like "this is fascism!" And, like, yeah brother

This is a good place to start. It lists his books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto