[hanamizu]

If you don’t want to be in class, fine!

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In the last 20 years or so, the drop-out age has been raised; that is, you cannot legally drop out of school in many places until you are 17 or 18. One of the main functions of public schools today is to ‘keep them off of the streets’.

So to some extent, high school is prison and the staff and the inmates treat it like one. You have to feel sorry for the kids who want to learn who find themselves in such a school.

[Grampa Dave]

You are correct in this reality!

One of the main functions of public schools today is to ‘keep them off of the streets’.

So to some extent, high school is a prison, and the staff and the inmates treat it like one. You have to feel sorry for the kids who want to learn, who find themselves in such a school.