The Similarities Between Schools and Prisons

Schools and Prisons:two federal funded places where people/kids are put into.

Schools are made to help teach the children of tommorow. Prisons are meant to serve as punishment for people who step outside the law and are sent there to serve there time and at least come out better citizens.

The food at time varies,there is violence at some terms,and the staff quality can be good or terrible.

Is the OP currently a student?

or have a point?

I just graduated from high school and let me tell you it was a long road to go.

I was just making a fun thread that people can discuss.

Although, Prisons have windows.

My school had windows all over the pl-

I see what you did there, Deboss.

Also: Welcome to the rest of your life, enjoy the ride.

edited 1st Aug '11 12:23:48 PM by pvtnum11

Juvie had better food then our school caf.

Our food was pretty good. We even had a little Taco Bell (limited menu selection) in our cafeteria.

Elementary was so-so, but I wasn't picky enough to care, Middle School was decent, High School was even better.

Although once I obtained a car, we would run out to town to grab some fast food - good chance to get out and unwind for ninety minutes.

Schools really arent very much like prisons. What they closely resemble, though are factories, ones that produce paperwork. Come to think of it, what they most resemble are offices. Coincidence?

The only real valid comparisons between schools and prisons are their respective effects on the people in them, and even then, in the former's case, it's much more toned down than the latter, also

Schools also give you a mostly-unfiltered view of the people around you, and does so in a way in which you're in close proximity to those people pretty much all day. Jobs require resumes and applications, and not anyone can get into a prison.

After primary school, most any other social activity you do has some sort of filter on it, in one way or another.

Most modern schools don't have much in the way of windows. Because the architects are dumb.

Actually, I read a short article the other day about somebody floating the idea of prison vouchers- giving those sentenced to incarceration a choice in where to spend their confinement. It was kinda a self-admitted surreal proposal.

But windows are only for aesthetic value, Deboss!

edited 1st Aug '11 1:08:48 PM by Tangent128

Meh, both of the schools I've been going to (Grade and High) had windows, and there were no cafeterias. Thus, no comparison at all for me.

Tell that to the architect of my school, where two of the walls of the cafeteria are windows.

I have no idea where this "schools have no windows" stuff is coming from. Maybe it's a coastal thing? Or maybe it's just where I live in the Mid-west. I am yet to see a school that is short on windows.

edited 1st Aug '11 1:21:09 PM by chihuahua0

Whether students or ex-cons, nobody can get a job when they get released/graduate.

Know what schools allow that prisons dont?

The ability to go home

Come to think of it...probably not.

@12 The area I live in has a lot of schools that were built within the last decade. Every room bordering an external wall in them have large windows, and the only classes that tend to take place in windowless rooms are Band/Music classes.

The only rooms that had no windows in my school were rooms that were completely inside the building and nowhere near the wall, and that was only the science rooms and a few English rooms. Otherwise, there were windows everywhere.

edited 1st Aug '11 3:34:58 PM by GIG

There's another difference. One has received steadily more funding over time and the other correspondingly less.

I think it was an architectural phase they were going through.

• People come to learn how to be gangsters, smuggle alcohol and drugs, and make improvised weapons
• Strong steel bar fence around the whole perimeter that is heavily guarded (the one in my hometown also has at least one cop at all times)
• Everyone gathers to see the fights
• Metal detectors for everyone who goes in and out, no exceptions (this is at a school only a few miles away from where I live)
• Doing absolutely nothing to reform anyone who doesn't think they should be there
• People at the place respect a hardass no-nonsense administrator a lot more than they respect a wishy-washy person who doesn't acknowledge that anything bad happens
• The condition of being in authority has interesting effects on the brains of many of the workers
• There are clearly upper-class facilities and lower-class facilities, with the upper-class ones being more likely to lead to a future of wealth, not to mention disproportionate racial compositions between the two types
• Completing a stay at a facility is a sign of credibility with specific groups of people
• People form into crews and cliques in order to improve their chances in a fight
• Sometimes you meet some old-timers who are stuck there (Seriously, the high school I went to was also used as an adult training school. During the daytime.)
• While people are there, they are often trying to find ways to get some booty. In fact, booty is an important currency. (Luckily or unluckily, the school I went to was so crowded that there were no secure places to do it, so they made sure to do it after school)
• The more people who are in the facilities, the lower the property values of the surrounding areas.

edited 1st Aug '11 4:50:20 PM by ssfsx17

My school didn't have metal detectors. Presumably it was too upscale.

Mine had none of that. We were a rural mountain school and the yearly attendance of students in total rarely got over 300.