[classybull]

There was very little discussion of the most authoritarian aspect of most children's lives, school. Absolute, unbridled authority that gets to dictate all of the circumstances of your physical being 35 hours a week for 12 years, with no recourse and no challenge possible. If you choose to not attend it, they send another authoritarian system to track you down, ie the police.

Its a place where you have to ask permission to use the restroom, for goodness sake. And this doesn't even get into the academic authoritarianism of school.