Public school is a normie factory and you know it
Public school is a system designed to manufacture normies, and it’s not a necessity. Here’s why most people can’t see past it. For now, at least…
Public school isn’t sacred, and it’s not even necessary. It’s a taxpayer-funded conditioning system designed to manufacture normies—people who obey, conform, and defend the very system that trained them to be incapable of questioning it.
Here’s why most people can’t see past it. At least for now…
Schooling ≠ Education
Most people assume that education only happens in a classroom, with a government-certified adult standing at the front, and some state bureaucrat pre-approving the curriculum. They’ve never been shown anything else, so they can’t even imagine alternatives like:
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Homeschooling
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Unschooling
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Microschools
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Private learning pods
Even when those models outperform government schools in results, cost, and emotional well-being, the average person resists. Not because the argument isn’t solid, but because it breaks their mental template.
They were taught this is the only way, and that’s the whole point.
They’ll claim public school is how we keep order
Forget the lie that public school is about knowledge. It’s about obedience. When you and me were in public school, they told us to:
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Sit in rows.
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Raise your hand.
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Obey the bell.
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Submit to authority.
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Don’t speak unless spoken to.
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Memorize. Regurgitate. Repeat.
It’s behavioral training, not education. Conditioning for life inside a machine. The goal’s to create compliant taxpayers, not sovereign thinkers.
Most normies don’t see this. They see “order.” But it’s the same kind of order you get in a factory or any day job. They’re, in a dehumanizing way, conditioning you to be predictable and efficient in their eyes.
Because society supposedly wouldn’t function
You’ve heard the lines before:
- “If we didn’t have public school, how would we function?”
- “If you don’t support public education, you hate kids.”
- “We need it for the good of society.”
This is collectivist dogma dressed up as concern, and it’s always used as a bludgeon to stop the conversation before it even begins.
Ditching public school doesn’t mean chaos. It just means giving people back the freedom to choose how they want to learn and who they trust to teach their kids.
But in the mind of the normie, deviating from the government’s default model means you’re a threat to the tribe. You’re dangerous, selfish, anti-child, and you’re “stealing from the collective.”
The “fair share” scam
Even if your child doesn’t attend public school, you still have to fund it. That’s the racket.
The excuse? “Everyone has to pay their fair share.” But what they mean is: You must fund the system whether you use it or not.
Let’s be honest:
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Coercion funds government schools.
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They operate as near monopolies, boxing out better options.
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They’re borderline immune to competition, feedback, and accountability.
This isn’t education. It’s institutionalized theft with a chalkboard and a flag.
Public School manufactures minds that defend it
Here’s the kicker: The people most loyal to the public school system are the ones it programmed.
The same way a tax-funded system convinces people taxation isn’t theft, they convince people that public school isn’t indoctrination.
It’s a closed loop.
So when someone dares to suggest a decentralized model built on parental autonomy, voluntary exchange, and market incentives, the response isn’t logic. It’s a nervous system meltdown: Blah blah warlords blah blah illiteracy blah blah who will teach the poor kids?
That’s not a counterargument. That’s trauma from a lifetime of institutional programming rejecting anything unfamiliar.
Education may be a battleground of Human Governance 3.0
If we want to move toward a voluntary, post-state future, it won’t start in D.C. or at the voting booth. Always remember, you can’t reform a cancer. You can only remove it.
That said, it starts with education. And it starts outside the system.
That means:
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Microschools
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Homeschooling pods
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Self-directed online academies
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Tutor co-ops
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Parallel, permissionless institutions
We don’t need a king, and we don’t need a failed state-run school system.
The first people who said the former were mocked. They were called radicals and branded dangerous.
But history doesn’t remember them that way. Neither will the future remember us that way.
Want to see an educational alternative in action?
My libertarian young adult academy fantasy series, Arcane Elemental Academy, is what you’re looking for. At Arcane, there are 32 a whopping competing private schools that offer tailored approaches to each kid’s personality and learning style.
That’s something you’ll never get in a public school, or even a mainstream private school teaching the same curriculum as its government counterpart.
And in Arcane Elemental Academy’s prequel, Arcane Awakenings, Yote Diamondback supports traditional learning until an incident occurs that makes her see things a little differently.
When a teacher refuses to stick to the government-approved curriculum at the regulated private school—the public school with a price tag type—Yote attends, trouble brews.
Yote starts second-guessing everything she’s been taught to believe, and it foreshadows her eventual trek north to the Arcane Elemental Academy.
