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0 pointsadamsea5y ago0 comments

I certainly agree that so much about school is problematic and could be improved, but ...

> Schools are functionally no different from part-time prisons.

A prison by definition cannot be part-time ; ). Plus, it's a totally unfair comparison. Schools are intended for everyone. Prisons are intended for a specific subset of people deemed to have broken a law.

Schools are for children. Prisons are for adults.

And so on.

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icebraining5y ago· 1 in thread

> A prison by definition cannot be part-time

Sure it can. Check out "weekenders" and "work release" programs, for example.

adamseaOP5y ago

Good point. To me the whole schools / prisons thing just seems dramatic and not well thought out.

“X is like prison”.

Work is like prison. Childhood is like prison. Society is like prison.

Is everything like prison?

If we live in The Matrix yes but we don’t?

a13692099935y ago

> Prisons are intended for a specific subset of people

> Schools are for children. [a specific subset of people]

Bills of attainder[0] may be illegal and unconstitutional, but they're still a thing that happens as long as noone who matters cares.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder

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