[wintertime]

1) Brick and mortal schools are institutions. Children who attend these brick and mortar schools are, therefore, **institutionalized** for their education.

The rest is a strawman of your creation. Perhaps you can explain what **you** mean about Pol pot and Moa style boarding schools.

[Jay Redhawk]

So your answer is that we should institutionalize children with bad parents? I thought public schools, known to you as institutions, were terrbile, terrible places. So now you want to take these poor kids, who through no fault of their own were born to bad parents, and forcibly send them to these horrible places. Isn't that sorta like kicking a cat after its already dead? Shame on you for supported these awful institutions.