Schools are museums. Only, you are required to attend and it is more like a live in museum - where you must live exactly as people did in the past. In most schools, you cannot bring anything of the future into schools - iPods, cell phones, laptops, etc. As far as I know, schools are supposed to focus on preparing students for the future, not be a full out history lesson. Well, how does the confiscation of the future help to prepare students for a work place where they are guaranteed to be digitally connected?
This is not to mention the invisible firewalls created around schools. Every conceivable modern site - from GMail to YouTube to Facebook - is blocked in schools. Yet, these sites are being used to shape business and, dare I say it, politics. I would urge our next president to investigate why schools are held in a vacuum from the rest of the world. After all, the federal government requires this immense firewall if schools want to receive any federal funding.
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