This is a linkpost for https://medium.com/@owenshen/the-ancient-god-who-rules-high-school-e0645b100ae6
high school isn't actually about learning but about daycare and sports and the convenience of organized groups
Beware false dichotomies. It can provide a different set of things to some stakeholders, without totally eliminating the value to others.
Agreed. I think that Hanlon's Razor also does an adequate job of explaining apparent suboptimalities. In general, it seems that most things just are, with no real effort on either side to make things bad or good, with our status quo merely being the aggregate results of lots of people attempting to do their thing.