photo of an adult talking to a child
top text: “Dad, why do I have to go to school?”
bottom text: “SO YOU CAN BE MOLDED INTO A STATE APPROVED HOMOGENOUS DRONE THAT CANNOT THINK OUTSIDE OF THE PRESCRIBED CONSENSUS. YOU WILL LEARN TO REPEAT INFORMATION INSTEAD OF HOW TO THINK FOR YOURSELF SO THAT YOU DON’T BECOME A THREAT TO THE STATUS QUO. WHEN YOU GRADUATE YOU WILL GET A JOB, PAY YOUR TAXES, IN ORDER TO PERPETUATE THE CORPORATE SYSTEM OF INDENTURED SERVITUDE FOR YOUR POLITICAL OVERLORDS”
Schools are part of what those workers fought for and corporations fought against.
Have corporations worked to poison the curriculum in places? Sure. But to act like schools exists purely to push corporate interests is anti-academic bullshit. There’s incredible value in exposing children to each other and to new ideas. A lot of the states in the US still teach about evolution, slavery, and sex ed: there’s just a handful of y’all’queda states that get headlines for being exceptionally dumb.