By way of contrast, our big schools offer them procedures, tedious and complex, to support their enthusiasms or redress their grievances. If you can fit it in today before three o' clock, try to find out what the problem is between Johnny and Sammy, who alleges he will be his victim. We'll need a written report in case something serious happens. No doubt such procedures are organizationally necessary in a big school. However, they are existentially hollow.
Schools are too big.
School districts are too big. For the children, the costs of this bigness are many, and the benefits, few. If, however, we adults, in our collective wisdom, decide that the benefits for us of school district consolidation outweigh the costs to our children, we needn't fear that some form of organization or another will not answer their needs. One of the most benign examples I can think of is MTV, or in general, the whole pop entertainment industry. Then there is always the drug and gang culture.