‘ having no more importance than if the students had said they liked the taste of strawberries?
Columbia was the most important and successful student protest ever, and showed schooling is not in a hermetically sealed bubble but reflects social mores and values.
So yes bad schools use fear as a weapon , but so does the legal system , the universities and the state in general. Well any social studies student knows that . The schools are a mirror to society, and that should be no surprise as the primary locus of socialization for the upcoming generation. the issue cant be reduced to individuals its about state process, power and ideology