HNs readership grew up in times when where cellphone usage was limited in schools by nature and also by policy (using them in class certainly was never allowed or tolerated). Jailbreaking my phone had nothing at all to do with school and was never something that could be prevented by school policy.

It also feels like you have extremely out-of-the-norm takes on schooling in general. Most people do not want to end compulsory education and don't see the wider benefit in doing so. I primarily see downsides to it, in fact.

> Teachers should have zero power to “discipline” except to expel students from their classroom.

This sounds like dogma based on bias instead of anything factual. Why shouldn't teachers be able to discipline students?

> Teachers are not the arbiters of truth on how effective you are at producing for society, but we sure treat them like it.

No, we have given teachers a purpose and a responsibility, and we generally give them the room and autonomy and authority to carry that out in the best interests of our children.

This might not be universal, but this is not an issue with schooling fundamentally, but with the specifics of schooling in a particular place and time. I hear plenty of nightmare-ish things about schools in the US, but that doesn't mean schools as a concept are flawed. Plenty of other places manage to have decent schools that actually serve their purpose quite well.

> I forgot that HN actually loves to lick boots!

You're barking up the wrong tree here. Just because we disagree with your bizarre conclusions and unsubstantiated statements of facts has nothing to do with anybody being a bootlicker.