— Modern schools look like prisons.
— Once inside children are treated in many ways like prisoners. They are ordered by the state when to speak or shut up. Their press and free assembly are highly regulated. They can not fully express their religious belief as they wish. They are labeled and numbered and some are now forced to carry GPS traceable chips. They are told when they can exercise, eat, and rest. They are marched about to the sound of bells. Their exercise yards look like prison yards. Guards and drug sniffing dogs patrol the halls, Metal detectors are common. They are subject to searches.
In some ways prisoners have it better. Prisoners are not likely to mowed down by a gun toting lunatic. They have their own toilet so they don't have to use a commode that someone else has peed on. No one is likely to monitor if they eat their vegetables or not. And...They are not subjected to the non-stop godless proselytizing of the government established religion of humanism.
At least criminals have committed a crime. The only “crime” children have committed is the audacity to be born.
Question: Isn't it ***rational** to rebel against being treated like a prisoner when one is completely innocent of any crime?
while I agree public schools now are more prison like than when I went to school, but what you are mentioning about when and where to eat (lunch time and cafeteria), being marched around by school bells (this was probably normal protocol even back in the 50s?) which was all normal to me and I was a child of the 70s. You’re acting like this is all a new phenominon, when the public schools have been like this at least for the past 40 years.