[Emu]

What is it with people and thinking that kids are utterly retarded robots? Well, I guess that is the fault of the school, but besides that, kids really do think about what they're learning. I imagine the kids who are intelligent and dedicated enough to enroll in the IB at all probably have the critical reasoning facilities to see the faults in some of the things that are being taught.

And about the forced marriage thing: Try asking an Indian woman if she feels oppressed because of it. My sociology teacher was a woman who immigrated from India, and she said that very few people argue with forced marriage over there because it just works for the society, because they don't marry for the same reasons we in the West do. We marry for love (which was an utterly foreign concept to her), they marry for economic stability.