Posted on 07/28/2006 7:37:04 AM PDT by tang0r
5. Both assume one solution for every individual. US justice policy incorrectly assumes that incarceration will solve many social problems, such as drugs, prostitution, gambling, etc. The US Department of Education assumes that federal and/or state government standards should apply to every student. Both are incorrect assumptions. Nonviolent and white-collar offenders should be rehabilitated; parents and kids should have choice and options in education. One size does not fit all.
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Don't forget the architecture. All the new schools I have seen recently look like upscale prisons...lots of cement, tiny windows, security at the (only 2 can be seen) doors. Very friendly look, not.
A few years ago we drove past my old high school with my children. I had mentioned a few of the things my children would see on that side of town. About ten miles north is a prison. But, when my children saw my old high school they thought that was the prison.
Children can be home-schooled. Does this have an analog in "house arrest"?
Here in Houston, they haven't built schools with windows in at least 30 years. It's an easy way to tell when the school in question was built . . . if it has windows, it's from the mid-'70s or earlier.
They're all huge brick or cement blocks. No windows at all. Some have doors chained shut, which has to be a fire hazard.
Reason #11:
A very active dating scene.
....the kids don't get much more recess either then a convict.......
You should see the Sprint Telcom campus on the Kansas side of the state line west of Kansas City. Now that has the prison look! Whoever bought into that design truely missed the mark.
LOL
That's because the surrounded it with the parking garages. I remember when it opened the joke was that they built the clock tower so Esry could go up there in his free time and pick off employees, sort of an additional head-count reduction scheme.
....though when someone says they're going to "cut a class" it means something entirely different in prison.
Only if you make your kids wear an electronic ankle bracelet.
Pray for vouchers. The only way to end the oppression of the government indoctrination camps. At least then, the kids have a chance by (1) not becoming frothing leftists, (2) actually learning something.
Government schools are just getting worse - and that speaks volumes.
Yep!
Compulsory schooling is child slavery. Children are forced at the point of a gun (ultimately) to wake up at 6:30am report in to the government processing institution precisely on time (or be punished) do the work that they are told to do for 6-8 hours then return home with more work to be done in prepation for the next day.
This is slavery by any other name. We see this as just as legal and ordinary as citizens saw slavery in the 17th century.
Homeschoolers are exceptions that have the equivalent of a 'free man" document that says they do not have the government as their slave master but they must still do the work or go to jail.
Parents who "revolt" against the institution are encouraged to homeschool in order to keep the revolution from catching fire.
Given the overwhelming usurpation by the state of the institutions of civil society over the last century, why would anyone wonder why the schools are like prisons?
What else could they be like?
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