What word can best describe the contemporary and practically global ritual of two hypothetically sane and rational individuals, commonly known as "parents", blithely submitting to a state's demand to hand over their child, usually to total strangers, for so-called "compulsory public education"; Strangeness or Insanity perhaps? Further baffling matters would be to understand that these parents should be able to identify and thus sympathize with the experience, for they themselves hashed their own way through they very-same system not so long ago.
What word can best describe the contemporary and practically global ritual of two hypothetically sane and rational individuals, commonly known as "parents", blithely submitting to a state's demand to hand over their child, usually to total strangers, for so-called "compulsory public education"; Strangeness or Insanity perhaps? Further baffling matters would be to understand that these parents should be able to identify and thus sympathize with the experience, for they themselves hashed their own way through they very-same system not so long ago.