[balamatom]

>Calling schools prisons?

Ma'am, may I go to the bathroom?

>Sorry, this is ridiculous.

Classy.

>Learning isn’t always fun and it’s unfortunate that, as a child, you were asked to do things that weren’t 100% the most fun thing you could be doing at any given time

Parent poster was complaining about the school system being unfit for the purpose of teaching, the "100% fun" thing is in your imagination.

>but it turns out playing video games all day has no value.

Neither has the system of formalized education, if we were to judge purely by your reading comprehension.

On the other hand, at least half of everyone I know learned the language that we are currently conversing in from videogames.

[jmye]

> Ma'am, may I go to the bathroom?

You think not having ten year olds wandering the halls at will makes an elementary school “like prison”? Really?

> Parent poster was complaining about the school system being unfit for the purpose of teaching, the "100% fun" thing is in your imagination.

The entire conversation spawned from a comment about how phones should be banned, and the poster I replied to talking about how it’s unfair to take them away from students, for “coping” or as a source of “escape”.

Would you like to re-discuss reading comprehension as an artifact of reading an entire comment chain to gain context before snarkily responding to only the last thing that was said, or are you good?

Maybe that video game didn’t do you quite as much service as you’d like to pretend.

[BriggyDwiggs42]

Actually in high school (thats 14-18) we didn’t have to ask permission. We had to go over to a sign out sheet, write our names on the sheet, and take a hall pass which we’d be asked for if we ran into any adults. We then needed to sign in upon return, to ensure every sign out had a corresponding sign in, which the teacher would briefly check at the end of class.

[balamatom]

>Maybe that video game didn’t do you quite as much service as you’d like to pretend.

No, I learned English at school from a teacher. Thus, I was a relative straggler in language learning, in comparison with those of my peers who could afford PCs able to run GTA3.

For your benefit, I re-read the whole thread just now and I still find your reasoning faulty and your premise, frankly, cruel.

Your only response to salient points such as, I quote, "incompetent education system", "The customers are captive", "The incentives could hardly be more misaligned" was, basically, "boo fucking hoo".

I'll leave you to ponder why your putative ten-year olds would even have anything to "cope" with or "escape" from. Maybe they're trying to cope with the traumatic realization that the world they've been born into is hell-bent on turning them into you.