I recently finished reading The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis, the fourth book in The Chronicles of Narnia. One of my favorite parts of the book is the description of the school that Eustace and Jill attend called the Experiment House. "It was...what used to be called a 'mixed' school, and some said that it was not nearly so mixed as the minds of the people who ran it." The school was run by an insane liberal woman called the Head. No doubt believing in the basic goodness of man, she believed in talking to bullies rather than punishing them. Naturally, a gang of bullies terrorized the school. Of course, "Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House."
In the end, with a little help from Aslan, the Head is exposed as a lunatic and removed from the school. But "After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they made her an Inspector to interfere with the other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after."
Sometimes it seems that every government school has turned into the Experimant House.
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