the war on kids

A documentary about the war on kids within the public school system.  (It's funny how when war is your main economic engine, everything at home becomes a war, too.)

From the War on Kids Press Kit, at their movie's website:

Blame for problems with schooling in America is often assigned to insufficient funding or the inherent failings of today’s kids.  In rare cases, parents, teachers, and administrators are also implicated.  However, all efforts to improve the quality of education are doomed to fail if the system itself is not examined and understood to be the most significant impediment.  After over six years in the making, THE WAR ON KIDS reveals that the problems with public education ultimately stem from the institution itself.  Astonishingly all efforts at reform consistently avoid even considering this to be a possibility and the future for children and American democracy are at stake.

In 95 minutes, THE WAR ON KIDS exposes the many ways the public school system has failed children and our future by robbing students of all freedoms due largely to irrational fears.  Children are subjected to endure prison-like security, arbitrary punishments, and pharmacological abuse through the forced prescription of dangerous drugs.  Even with these measures, schools not only fail to educate students, but the drive to teach has become secondary to the need to control children.