I don't disagree with the notion of jingoism in public education. I disagree that it has anything to do with the myriad behavioral and performance issues in public schooling.
When you have an entire system dependent on compliance, you have a system of oppression. Behaviorism is already debunked as a way to evaluate how people respond to such situations because it completely ignores the internal state of people. Any system doing that is already a dehumanized system.
The performance and behavior issues will continue until the spiritual beatings cease. You cannot keep imposing systems of oppression onto people and medicate away their natural responses to it. Let the riot be the rhyme of the unheard and may these kids flip over all the desks of the adults not walking out of their jobs in response to fascism.
