Govern-cement School is far more dangerous than you might even imagine.
John Taylor Gatto is a good place to start. Voted several years as the best teacher in New York. He quit being a school teacher because he could not take the hypocrisy any more.
Most people who bring up this school-adhd-drugging thing usually speak of boredom. I would really like this to stop. Because it isn't boredom. Being boring is the least of the accusations to be leveled at govern-cement schools.
Govern-cement schools are indoctrination camps.
They are used to break down young minds into pathways where they will never find a way out and can never question authority in any meaningful way.
And the way you tell if someone is becoming indoctrinated is not to test them logically, it is to get them to repeat something stupid.
Those that blindly follow and repeat the idiocy are deemed to pass.
Those that reject the idiocy are put back in class until they repeat the idiocy.
It isn't boredom, things have gotten so bad in govern-cement schools that children are literally rebelling. Their minds are saying enough.
While all that you say is true,
if you subtract the modern twist of giving drugs, this problem is an old one. Even Einstein and other great minds experienced it -- and hated school -- and said that it was a wonder they learned anything or that their creativity wasn't completely killed off from being in school.
The creative type of child, is usually the one who gets bored the easiest, and the one that the school system makes feel dumb or inadequate. The school system has surely taken away the drive of a LOT of people who could have greatly contributed new wonders and solutions to the world --- but who fell prey to their devices.
The teenagers who drop out of school, are the bravest ones who refused to assimilate. But society usually scorns them and looks at them as failures. Quite a few of the most successful business people are high-school drop-outs.