Few may agree with your view here including me, until I open my mind to schools that teach a faith, any faith, then, while not agreeing admit there are exceptions

Many parents will send a child to school being a much easier option, than taking on a broader element of education themselves involving children they have created.

One must realise though, schools can be and are very restrictive. If I was forced to sit in a corner at home all day as a child and do very little (and say the media found out), a social worker may be brought in and demand action.

With schools if one is left behind, if a person is left falling apart, a person is not developing or that person is constantly labelled a failure by a teacher (say through a report card), if a parent did the same things, would this be considered positive? No!

Why do schools get this exclusive benefit?

A variety of educational elements can come from elsewhere, whether it be from nature, environment, outside tutoring and study, self discovery, from parents themselves, grandparents, outside organisations and local communities.

I had a number of these benefits myself, through piano lessons, something I could not get at school and only though the benefit of one of my grandparents donating a piano to my parents. My parents also paid for the piano lessons and I now enjoy playing piano every day.

Self discovery was also something I found, through a hole in the education system I was put through, something I can't get a grade for, but something I will always be very appreciative of.

Schools must be a place of peace and tranquility, a place free from abuse and all types of force, particularly if one is forced to attend.

There is certainly a form of child abuse taking place in schools, but it emanates from Marxist teachers’ unions and leftist teachers in the form of political brainwashing and interference in matters upbringing best left to parents - sexuality being just one; all at the expense of basic education.

Dumbing down of curriculum to cover the incompetence of teachers is another abuse. One idiot principal in the public sector system telling anyone silly enough to listen to such an oaf that kids should be praised and talked up for getting C grades - the lowest of passes.

The claim that there “are no real benefits that come from exams” is absurd. If students cannot reproduce, under pressure what they have learned, they will have no hope of dealing with the pressures of finding work and performing satisfactorily for an employer. Employers are continuously lamenting the ignorance of job seekers.

The fact that so many kids cannot read, write and complete simply calculations - requiring remedial teaching when they have led been to believe that they are capable of tertiary education - is a national scandal in Australia. Child abuse is probably an accurate description of public education.

Is school a form of child abuse?

It can be - it all depends on the teacher.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with
inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they do
accomplish this impossible task. Every teacher deserves
effective tools and skills. Not cut-backs to education.

A teacher is the decisive element in the classroom. It
is the teacher's personal approach that creates the climate.
It is their daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher
they possess tremendous power to make a child's life
miserable or joyous. A teacher can be a tool of torture or
an instrument of inspiration. They can humiliate and
hurt or heal. In all situations it is the teacher's response
that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated
and a child humanised or de-humanised.

Many teaching problems will be solved in the next few decades.
There will be new learning environments and new means of
instruction. One function, however, will always remain with
the teacher - to create the emotional climate for learning.
No machine, sophisticated as it may be, can do this job.

Children are confronted with one indisputable problem...their parents, ....and the parents of the other children....let's see ...one and one makes two....make that two indisputable problems.

*...Schools must be a place of peace and tranquility, a place free from abuse and all types of force, particularly if one is forced to attend...*

At what point did you develop that misconception?

And second question, can you play Beethovens piano sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2 (three movements) ?