[Jim Noble]

They have the right idea in the new high school they built in my area, with it's indoor olympic size swimming pool, and plasma TV screens in the hallways.

Some of the holding pens are really nice.

But they're not schools.

[Fresh Wind]

But they're not schools.

That's the same school system that gives kids Hardy Boys books as reading assignments. In my day, we were reading Shakespeare, Dickens, Melville, and others of their ilk (not that we wouldn't have prefered the Hardy Boys!)

[RobbyS]

You have it. They are "people's palaces" for teenagers.