"Protester Burnout"

Back in the mid to late 90's when I started learning about the seedy side of our education system, I learned that education systems rely on "protester burnout" as a matter of fact. I spent a lot of time and money trying to learn what others already knew. This is one of the many books I read:

Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: You, Your Child, and "Special" Education: A Guide to Making the System Work

This book helped me conceptualize many of the systemic issues that I had struggled with. The writer even knew that school systems label "problem people" as "isolated incidents", by the thousands. School systems have well defined strategies to deal with "trouble makers".

One major advantage of school systems is that they share their institutional learning. Parents and teachers come and they go and they do not provide a continued, strategic effort to change the system. As if they could.

I always think that a local school system is simply an extension of the state and the federal government. There appears to be an indoctrination process that occurs which leads to forgotten campaign platforms and instead leans more to job preservation and an "us vs. them" mindset.

Another thing I learned over the years that it is very, very difficult for either the school system employees or the parents to see the seedy side of the system until they are caught in it.

And then it is real as it gets.