True Left

"what we knew all along about the Western school system"

Yes, it is crucial to emphasize that compulsory schooling is uniquely Western. All civilizations had schools, but no other civilization had compulsory schooling. This means all of us who have ever been forced to go to school are direct, personal victims of Western initiated violence, inflicted upon us daily for almost our entire childhood. This is what we need more people to become Woke to. It is when we are conscious of this that we better appreciate just how much more initiated violence Western colonialism caused by making compulsory schooling a worldwide phenomenon.

Awareness of compulsory schooling as initiated violence also places the popular rightist talking point of "non-white" students vandalizing classrooms etc. in a completely different light: they are doing Ahimsa!

Attitude towards compulsory schooling is also one of the biggest divides between False Leftists (who defend it as a "human right" and as necessary for progress) and True Leftists (who condemn it as torture), which proves False Leftists are Westerners. As True Leftists, we must be careful to argue against compulsory schooling NOT (as the Salon article does) on the grounds that other learning methods are more efficient:

the more scientists have learned about how children naturally learn, the more we have come to realize that children learn most deeply and fully, and with greatest enthusiasm, in conditions that are almost opposite to those of school.

which is surrendering to False Left values (and also leaves us cornered if it turns out this is untrue). Instead we must argue that even if compulsory schooling is more efficient, without which modernity would collapse, we would rather modernity collapse ASAP than this constant violence initiated against children continue for even a day longer. Moreoever, to even be searching for more efficient methods of learning is a mistake in the first place, as it leads to:

https://tofasakademi.com/neuralink-how-the-human-brain-will-download-directly-from-a-computer/

Neural Lace is a brain-computer interface technology that could allow human brains to compete with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Currently, Elon Musk [<<< IT'S ALWAYS HIM!!!] is funding research toward the development of Neural Lace technology, this is the emerging technology that could link human brains with computers without the need of a physical connection.

This would be possible by implanting tiny electrodes into the brain. The result would be the enhancement of memory and cognitive powers by effectively merging humans and Artificial Intelligence.

Elon Musk, who runs several successful companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, has outlined his fears in several opportunities saying that the rapid advancement in Artificial Intelligence means that humans will either have to merge with Artificial Intelligence at some point in the future or become irrelevant. When he is asked about why he founded Neuralink he responds saying that the “existential risk is too high not to.”

Musk's attitude is identical to that of Westernized "non-whites" during the colonial era: "The rapid advancement in Western countries means we have to adopt Western schooling quickly or become irrelevant." No, the correct reaction in each case is not to join the evil, but to destroy it.

If there is a father of modern schools, it is the Pietist clergyman August Hermann Francke, who developed a system of compulsory schooling in Prussia, in the late 17th century, which was subsequently copied and elaborated upon throughout Europe and America.

Francke is without doubt one of the most evil people in history, but compulsory schooling can be traced further back to two people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_of_Sparta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_ben_Gamla

Post-Renaissance Western school is basically a hybrid of the agoge and the yeshiva.

"I actually remember my very first day of kindergarten quite vividly, which is a memory that most people would probably lose to time, or at the very least would melt away into the general memory of kindergarten as a whole. I completely broke down and started bawling, begging my mom not to take me."

I have the same memory. NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.

"she still refuses to talk about how it all played out to this day"

You have a duty to confront her about it.