And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says,
does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are
maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest
possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are
heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are
pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to
heels with official rubber-stamps.
-- H.L. Mencken
The following is a memo from the superintendent of the Mylar school district.
"A recent six-month study, in which breakfast was made available at school for 100 schoolchildren ages five to twelve, found that children on the breakfast plan were less likely than other children to be absent from or late for school....