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Yes your children should know the basic things they should do for themselves

The job of schools is to graduate students to become responsible adults and good citizens.

obedient citizens is the main goal

In 2010, obedient citizens would have been the goal. Today, it's more like mollified citizens: people so preoccupied by a myriad of distraction all they can think about is Right Now (not even a few minutes from now).

Yeah, it is worse now