No, and there’s no genocide in regard to killing, except in killing free will, creativity, and the right to be an individual. They ARE, however, forced to go to schools that teach them confusion, where everything is out of context with the real world. They’re taught too much: the orbiting of planets, the law of large numbers, slavery, adjective, architectural, drawing, dance, gymnasium, choral, singing, assemblies, s BBC urprise, guests, fire drills, computer language is, parents night, staff development days, pull out programs, guidance with strangers, that students may never see again, standardized tests, age segregation, unlike anything seen in the outside world… what do those have in common with one another?

They’re taught classism a through class position. They must stay in the class where they belong, they’re numbered so that if any get away, they can be returned to the right class. They are locked together with other children who bare numbers (grade level, test scores/ etc.) like their own. They’re taught to be in a marching order and to know their place. They’re told that their test scores will make employers hire them more easily based on how well they do.

They’re taught indifference, to not care too much about anything because once they get really going on something, the bell rings, and they have to just drop it and move onto the next thing whatever unrelated thing that is… The lesson of the bells.

They’re taught emotional dependency by stars, red check, smiles, and frowns, prizes, honors, and disgraces. They’re taught to surrender their will to the predestined chain of command. Rights may be granted or withheld by any authority without appeal because rights do not exist inside of the school not even the right of free speech as a Supreme Court has ruled unless school authorities say they do.

They’re taught intellectual dependency; good students wait for a teacher to tell them what to do is the most important in life lesson of all. We must all wait for other people better train than ourselves to make the meanings of our lives. The expert makes all the important choices only I can determine what my kids must study says the teacher , successful children do the thinking I assign them with a minimum of resistance when the decent show of enthusiasm.

They’re taught provisional self-esteem by getting a report card sent home to illicit approval through tiny percentage points, think of how dissatisfied with a child a parent should be. Good schooling depends on perpetuating dissatisfaction, just like the commercial economy depends on the same fertilizer.

They are taught they can’t hide they’re always being watched. There’s no private spaces for children and there’s no private time for them. They’re encouraged to tattle on each other even tattle in their own parents. They’re given an extended type of schooling called homework, so that the effect of surveillance, if not, the surveillance itself travels in the private household, where students might otherwise, he’s free time to learn something unauthorized from a mother and father by exploration her by apprenticing to some wise person in the neighborhood disloyalty that idea of schooling is a devil, always ready to find work for idle hands.

It is the great triumph of compulsory government, monopoly, math schooling that, among even the best of teachers in among even the best students only a small number can imagine a different way of doing things.

It is a slow genocide of the people, that’s what our current education system is.