In Gatto’s “Against Schools,
How Schools Cripple Our Kids.” He states that he felt the need to go against
the norm of the high school system and free his students from their everyday
boredom.
“I feel I had to defy
the custom, bend the law, to help kids break out of the trap of boredom.”
My high school was, as I
imagine all high schools are, overloaded with
daily monotonous drudgery and endless mind numbing lectures from
teachers who didn't even want to be there. It wasn't just the
students that needed a little thrill in the daily high school life, the
teachers were just as robotic and droned out as every student in there. The whole
school was zombie-like. Teachers, students, guidance counselors and the like…and
I swear those lunch ladies knew how to stand up, serve food AND sleep!
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