Los Angeles Adult Entertainment: Pom-Poms and Prisons: The Powerful Statism of Disney’s High School Musical
As a former teacher in the public school system, I can tell you that these impressionable kids are not getting an accurate portrayal. Though the rah-rah hysteria is driven down their throats on a day-to-day basis (and shifted into overdrive during football season), most if not all students do not like going to school. They do not find it fun; they find it a drag. They resent being woken up before sunrise, being bussed to an eight hour internment camp, being force-fed information from dishonest textbooks, marching in lock step from class to class at the sound of a bell, being subject to searches of their person and lockers against their will… it is probably why so many of them do not fear going to prison; they have been there, done that. I don’t need to tell you that the backlash to this sort of environment includes daily ritualized destructive activities such as fights, prostitution, sexual exploitation, bullying, abuse and other traumatizing behaviors that occur in state-run schools just as they do in state-run prisons.
See the full article from “United Liberty”