In John Taylor Grotto's Against School, he argues that the public schooling system cripples children. He makes arguments that the public schooling system suppresses children from learning at their maximum potential. He offers home schooling as an effective alternative to the public schooling system, stating that the freedom the students are given in home schooling will motivate them to learn more capably and learn things that will actually serve a purpose to them later in life. While Grotto argues that home schooling is the best way for a child to receive a good education, there are various reasons why public schools provide optimal education.
             Grotto claims that a big issue of why public schools are so detrimental to a student's learning is because school structure promotes boredom. He states that going to class six times a day, five days a week, and nine months a year for twelve years is a structure that bored kids and didn't train them to learn material constantly, but instead taught them not to think at all. Also the fact that the students were not interested in learning the "stupid" material but were more interested in getting good grades caused the teachers to lose interest in teaching which is the reason boredom exists everywhere in classrooms. It is true that both kids and teachers get bored, but boredom is an inevitability that comes with everything. Even some adults in everyday life are bored at work. Boredom is something that everyone will be forced to go through. The adults are bored but they are the ones who construct our buildings, drill oil for our cars, manage our water and power supplies, and do other things that are necessary for people to manage their lives everyday. Kids cannot escape the grasp of boredom not even when they grow up and find their niche in society. The majority of students will be bored but they will have a driving force to help them overcome this boredom and le...