What’s the difference between school and prison? « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub

What’s the difference between school and prison? « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub: "What’s the difference between school and prison? Give up? Yeah, often the students give up, too. If you don’t know the answer, your school may resemble a prison. Gary Stager’s post with jarring comparison."



This is a great article! Schools eliminating recess to instruct children in drills. Don't they realize that the more freedom they take away, the worse children will behave? I think they do realize it and do it so they can punish kids.

The kids were right, school is a prison - Network World

The kids were right, school is a prison - Network World

The school board in Sutter, Calif., and the superintendents of the Brittan Elementary School seem to want to prove that generations of students were correct when they felt that school officials cared more about confining students to classrooms than educating them. At this point the school board is well on its way to achieving that goal...



From 2005. I wonder how bad it's gotten since then.

Spotsy High a Prison

Spotsy High a Prison

How can we speak of democracy or freedom when from the very beginning of life we mold the child to undergo tyranny, to obey a dictator? … How can we expect them, when school-life is finished, to accept and use the rights of freedom? — Maria Montessori, Education for a New World...



This article was written four years ago, but it's very relevant today. Schools are prisons.