Hey Harold,

You ever read Seymour Sarason? From The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform:

"The classroom, and the school and school system generally, are not comprehensible unless you flush out the power relationships that inform and control the behavior of everyone in these settings. Ignore those relationships, leave unexamined their rationale, and the existing "system" will defeat efforts at reform...The first step, recognition of the problem, is the most difficult, especially in regard to schools, because we all have been socialized most effectively to accept the power relationships characteristic of our schools as right, natural, and proper, outcomes to the contrary nonwithstanding (7)."

Those relationships support the status quo. The idea of making schools more democratic, self-organized spaces puts the very institution at risk.