Schools Ban Having Best Friends

According to leftist dogma, we are not just equal (i.e., in our rights and basic value as human beings), but equivalent. Each of us is an interchangeable component of the collective. Consequently, the progressives who dominate education are trying to eradicate best friends:

Members of the royal family aren’t often told what they can and can’t do. But just a few days into his first year of school, 4-year-old Prince George already faces a mandate: No best friends allowed.

Thomas’s Battersea, the school George attends, bans kids from having best friends, Marie Claire reports. Instead, teachers encourage all students to form bonds with one another to avoid creating feelings of exclusions among those without best friends.

Egalitarian ideology decrees that if everyone doesn’t have something, no one should have it.

The trend of banning best friends has been growing for several years, and it’s spread beyond European borders to American schools as well.

Some psychologists and parents argue kids become more well-adjusted when they have larger friend groups and can avoid negative feelings associated with feeling left out.

Critics, however, say the approach robs kids of the chance to form valuable coping skills. By grappling with mild social exclusion when they’re young, kids will emerge as more capable, resilient adults, these advocates argue.

Also, having fewer but closer friends in adolescence has been associated with better mental health in adulthood.

But as a 1960s radical might say, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. Here the issue is not what is best for kids. The issue is social engineers imposing their will so as to construct utopia, instead of just letting people develop naturally.

On a tip from Steve2.