The Psychoeducational Middle School

The introduction of a therapeutic element in the absence of any explicit acknowledgment of the social and material context in which tensions arise intensifies repression rather than relieving it.

“The old competition is dead, even if the old liberal alibis for it are now incarnate as fetishes. But new kinds of competition, making new kinds of people, have arisen.”

C. Wright Mills, The Competitive Personality

Students at the Psychoeducational Middle School wake before dawn to beat the 7:15am bell, and stay late into the evening for tutoring or enri…