Yes. We treat our imprisoned criminals FAR better than we treat public school students.
(NO sarcasm)
Hm?...How do compulsory attendance government schools resemble prisons? Let me count the ways!
*Prisoners and children are compelled by law to be confined.
* Prisoners and children are marched about in single or double file.
*If either the child or prisoner resists their imprisonment, both lose privileges and are sometimes given more severe imprisonment. The prisoner would get solitary confinement. The child is sent to “reform school” ( kiddie-prison) and there, he too, can be put in solitary confinement.
*Children, like prisoners, are marched about to the sounds of bells.
* Like prisoners, the state controls with whom the child will associate. ( First Amendment Rights to free association be damned!)
*Like prisoners the government orders children to shut up, controls their ability to publish, and freely express their religion. ( First Amendment issues here. )
* Meal times, free periods, and exercise periods are controlled by the government for both the child and the prisoner.
* Have you noticed how schools resemble prisons. Do the exercise yards of prisons and schools have a similar appearance?
* There are lockdowns, strip searches, riot control measures.
* School cliques strongly resemble prison protection gangs.
* School buses and prison work buses are identical except for color.
* Children at school bus stops resemble prison road gang workers.
In one important way prisoners have it better than children. Prisoners are not subjected to non-stop indoctrination in the government religion of atheistic Secular Humanism.