[To respond to not the literal content of your comment, in case it’s relevant: I think some teachers are intrinsically bad, some are intrinsically great, and many are unfortunately compelled or think they’re compelled to try to solve an impossible problem and do the best they can. Blame just really shouldn’t be the point, and if you’re worried someone will blame someone based on a description, then you may have a dispute with the blamer, not the describer.]
criticism of schools unrealistic
Well, it’s worth distinguishing (1) whether/what harms are being done, and (2) under what circumstances the harms can be avoided. I don’t know precisely what you mean by “criticism of schools”. I don’t think you mean, it’s unrealistic—fantastical, unbelievable—that schools do these harms. I take you to mean, it’s unrealistic not to do these harms to kids. I don’t want to blur between “there’s no way to avoid this” and “this isn’t happening” (largely because it’s just not true that there’s no way to avoid it), or between “this is happening” and “we must do certain things, and blame/punish certain people” (because the implication just doesn’t hold, and the implication is sometimes used to couple the belief with the plan more than it has to be, and then push against the belief because the supposedly implied plan would be bad; as in “if school were harmful, I’d have to take my family and go live in the woods and be cut off from society; that would be bad for my family; therefore school is not harmful”).
To allow teachers to not harm their kids, parents might have to be willing to firmly disclaim for their kids anything like “expectations from society/government that they will be ready pass this exam at end of the year”. It may be unrealistic that parents would do that; I’d like to know why, but more acutely I’d like to see parents who are willing to do that organize.
[To respond to not the literal content of your comment, in case it’s relevant: I think some teachers are intrinsically bad, some are intrinsically great, and many are unfortunately compelled or think they’re compelled to try to solve an impossible problem and do the best they can. Blame just really shouldn’t be the point, and if you’re worried someone will blame someone based on a description, then you may have a dispute with the blamer, not the describer.]
Well, it’s worth distinguishing (1) whether/what harms are being done, and (2) under what circumstances the harms can be avoided. I don’t know precisely what you mean by “criticism of schools”. I don’t think you mean, it’s unrealistic—fantastical, unbelievable—that schools do these harms. I take you to mean, it’s unrealistic not to do these harms to kids. I don’t want to blur between “there’s no way to avoid this” and “this isn’t happening” (largely because it’s just not true that there’s no way to avoid it), or between “this is happening” and “we must do certain things, and blame/punish certain people” (because the implication just doesn’t hold, and the implication is sometimes used to couple the belief with the plan more than it has to be, and then push against the belief because the supposedly implied plan would be bad; as in “if school were harmful, I’d have to take my family and go live in the woods and be cut off from society; that would be bad for my family; therefore school is not harmful”).
To allow teachers to not harm their kids, parents might have to be willing to firmly disclaim for their kids anything like “expectations from society/government that they will be ready pass this exam at end of the year”. It may be unrealistic that parents would do that; I’d like to know why, but more acutely I’d like to see parents who are willing to do that organize.