Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
What I'd like to know is why schools and classrooms are party venues at all.

I agree. It is a relief to me here that in middle school the whole enterprise goes away, and school is school.

HK, you've written very powerfully here, and I agree with what you say. Any chance you can repost somewhere where lots of teachers and school admins will re-read? People NEED this perspective in order to understand.