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I didn't enjoy reading this book. We homeschool with a mostly "unschooling" or interest-driven methodology slant so I would have expected this book to be affirming. Instead I found it unsettling. The way the arguments and opinions were presented made it feel like a series of loosely justified, angry rants. I felt I was reading propaganda from a divisive and militant speaker intent on proving a massive and deliberate conspiracy. The state of schools today (I think) is more likely linked to apathy and top-heavy centralized management of the organization. That was formed less from some manic desire to rubber stamp children and more out of a realization that the unequality in substance and resources from one school to another boiled down to cruelty drawn along socioeconomic and racial lines. We continue to smooth away the curriculum into easier to teach and quick to understand lumps because it's easier to measure. If you take out coverage of topics that could create controversy, there's less complaint from those masses that participate. Industrialized schooling is not borne from a calculated elitist conspiracy but the mundane ease of generalized application to a large population.