I think thats a very cynical view point which reduces to a platitude an extremely complex issue especially when your evidence primarily appears to concern a smattering of cases among a system which serves millions of children a year.

Technology is very esoteric and almost brand new in a sense. It's been as little as two decades since the advent of schools even having computers.

The fact there are misunderstandings, growing pains, and abuse associated with the system that results should be a foregone conclusion.

The answer isn't to give up on the school system or assume bad intentions by administrators, curriculum developers, or legislators. The only thing that can come of that is an even more broken school system.

In my day we called unschooling homeschooling. And it's a lot of work. It's a fix for those families that can afford to do it.

However the families most harmed by public school policies are precisely the people who can't afford to unschool or homeschool which is perhaps the saddest part of all of this.

[edit]: spelling

From a survey of adults who had been "unschooled" (homeschooling without a curriculm):

> Almost all of the respondents, in various ways, wrote about the freedom and independence that unschooling gave them and the time it gave them to discover and pursue their own interests. Seventy percent of them also said, in one way or another, that the experience enabled them to develop as highly self-motivated, self-directed individuals. Many also wrote about the learning opportunities that would not have been available if they had been in school, about their relatively seamless transition to adult life, and about the healthier (age-mixed) social life they experienced out of school contrasted with what they would have experienced in school.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201406/su...

The nice thing about private school is that the student and parents are customers.