School makes kids commit suicide. Whenever kids are in school, they commit suicide. When you cancel school (snow days, COVID, summer, holidays), they stop committing so much suicide. School is a suicide-generating institution. nber.org/papers/w30795
People who never read "Lord of the Flies" are like "BUT HOW!?!?!?"
and the rest of us are like
did you miss the part where Lord of the Flies is just an allegory for English boarding schools????
and the rest of us are like
did you miss the part where Lord of the Flies is just an allegory for English boarding schools????
i wonder what will happen to children when we warehouse them together in competitive environments with approximately 1 adult supervisor per 20 to 30 kids, and that supervisor is not selected on the basis of moral wisdom or love of the child but ability to confer facts
and also, we cluster the kids by age group, ensuring that hierarchies are purely determined by personality-based aggressiveness, without any age-related offsetting.
there's a graph. 
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