Suspend your rationale thinking for a moment, and imagine that the place you all know best involving established authority - school - is suddenly without teachers, Ms. Nadeau, etc. for an extended period of time (think weeks). What would happen?
I think that it would be similiar to what happened in the book. In Lord of the Flies, all the schoolboys were celebrating the freedom that they now had. They could do what ever they wanted because the only authority that there really was, was from Ralph. After about a week though, the boy's idea of their perfect "society" was falling apart. Jack decided to have his own group, while Ralph tried to be rescued.
If all authority left Nokomis, I definitely think there would be celebration. I mean, who in school likes every teacher they have? I know there are a few I'm not fond of. All of the students would be glad; no homework, no work at all really. After a few weeks all of the kids would start realizing, that a) we still are stuck at school (the boys were stuck on an island in the book), b) there's no reason to celebrate anymore (like in the book), and c) we're lost without any authority (definitely in the book).
School would definitely be different, and I would have to say, for the worst. No matter how many kids say they hate this or that teacher, without their leadership and authority, we are being set up to fail. Just as in the book, Ralph and Jack weren't enough to keep the schoolboys calm in the book.
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