In recent times, one of the biggest defenses for “in-person” education is the belief that students need to be socially educated, otherwise they will be incapable of interacting in society.  What I mean by “socially educated” is in reference to the philosophy that one of the school’s purposes is to be a sercure environment that is a microcosm of the society outside the walls of the schools.  The bugging the minds of insightful educators is this… Has the school succeeded in slowly introducing society to its students?  Or, Has the school essentially become nothing less than a hyperextension of the society?  Meaning, all the issues existent in society are not only existent in the school, but they are magnified and/or hypersensitized?  While contemporary examples abound, lets turn to one from the past for insight, the racial integration of the public schools in the United States.

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