What a strange place a school is — a world within a world, a society within a society. Kids grow up in it asking themselves, "Is the real world like this?"
Yes and no. It is and it isn't.
In December, the weekly Aera published the results of an online survey asking parents and teachers, "Are schools, from the children's point of view, not free?" Yes, said 93.3 percent of 6,821 respondents.