It tries to regulate your information access (what you are allowed to know and not know and when). They like to dictate your body (like where you need to be and when you go to the bathroom). Scoring systems are manipulative and exploitative and actually not constructive to learning. The edu system is more about conditioning kids for capitalism more than anything else.
Academia tries to act as fact bearers and they like to keep a monopoly on stuff like research. They are professional gate keeper credentialists. Some thought policing vibes I get from some people. Seems like all the radical thinkers were sadly cleared out and what’s left is dominated by boot licking liberals and reactionaries.
I’m Californian.
I rebelled against it violently all the way back to kinder garden. By the time I was in 7th grade I was partially homeschooled (didn’t do much if any work). Then I moved to a private school in a lab where I also didn’t have to do work I didn’t want to do. Got hellish after that and I took CHISPE when I was 16.
It’s a shit show and it’s irresponsible we are sending kids into what is now not any proper or safe or humane education system. It’s worse for some who aren’t so normative and stuff like that than others.
Anyways it’s all extremely outdated.