I have been out of school for a few decades, but my "school" experiences, my childrens "school" experiences, and my wife's "school" experiences (she is a high level public school administrator) renforce my view that many public schools are run like minimum security prisons. Children are warehoused while their parents work or whatever, under the guise of "education". The education, for the most part, is not designed to enhance and nuture the abilities and talents unique to each one of us. These are institutions, run by government bureaucrats, who are either in the waning years or a political career, or trying to jumpstart a a new political career. The status quo is what is desired and expect from everyone, including the students. Taking a view that could be considered disruptive can be hazardous to your future. Lay low, survive, and quitely proceed down your own chosen path and become the best at what ever it is you have chosen that you can be. You do not need the approval of these robots of the machine to be successful. There are those institutions and teachers who are the exception, however, and if you are or belong to one of these, you and/or your students are very lucky indeed.