High school: the years of a child's life whenever you are expected to behave as adults in a adult world, but you are treated as anything but an adult. Kist brings up this important point in the last chapter of his book about the current public school system that calls for attention.
Yeah, teenagers make some pretty dumb decisions. That doesn't mean that public schools need to monitor their students so heavily. I think it's absolutely ridiculous that we expect high school students to act like adults, yet they have to ask permission to use the bathroom. It is not difficult to spot whenever a student abuses class time to go hang out in the restroom or skip class- simply paying attention to who leaves and for how long can be evidence enough for that. Having to ask to use the restroom is simply an atrocious policy in my opinion.
I think to allow students to grow into responsible adults, the institution needs to loosen the shackles and release the students from the cave to see the sun and feel the grass- cause hell, at this point I think it's safe to say that by the time most students graduate high school they don't even know what reality is and in that sense we have failed as a society.
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