How would we view a legitimately good school?

Imagine for a moment that a school flawlessly met the individual needs of every student. How would we view that school? Unfortunately, the modern world would never be supportive of such a concept.


We are highly conditioned in regards to what we believe schooling must be. We have almost all spent significant portions of our lives in the schools. Look at pretty much every portrayal of the schools. This includes classic works, recent entertainment, good teachers, bad teachers, public elementary schools, private high schools, state-run colleges, past settings, present settings, portrayals of the future, and so much more. The process remains fairly consistent throughout all of these things.

We are so deeply entrenched in the traditional schooling model that we think that's the way things have to be. Meeting student needs would be a drastic deviation from this model. Because of this, we will always be reluctant to embrace a school that legitimately cares about their students' educations.

The bottom line is that you are unlikely to ever find a school that actually does a good job with its students. Such a school does not fall in line with our expectations. As I have said before, a good school will never outperform a traditional school at being a traditional school. If you are among the small minority of the population that has bothered to look past the propaganda, you will see why maximizing performance as a traditional school is undesirable. Unfortunately, most people fall for the how-it-has-to-be arguments.