Also because of the school-to-prison pipeline. And to acclimate kids to bow to authority.
The FEMA camps are hiding in plain sight. And a good chunk of the population will obediently walk into them.
I think about stuff like this if I ever have kids and the option to homeschool. Assign my kids "projects" that they get the whole day to prepare and present before dinner.
Homeschooling also presents great challenges regarding socialisation. A huge part of what you learn in school is about how to be part of a larger group of peers. It is also the place where friendships and the first romantic relationships develop. Kids needs to be around other kids.
Another reason is cost. Prisons and schools are built for utilitarian purposes and politicians concerned about not residing taxes are not investing money in good architecture and decoration for either.
In the free society of the future things will be different. Prisons will not exist in their current form and schools will be built to be beautiful local landmarks whose architecture creates inviting and inspiring spaces for learning and community.
You know you can actually research this subject, right? Point 3 is correct, the preceding ones generally aren’t.
actually Marxist research: Public schools only exist to "keep kids out of trouble" (trouble for bourgeoisie!) after child labor was made outdated. They're literally designed as prisons
I remember the first day of kindergarten there was a kid who was crying all day and they had to send him home. He knew what was coming.
I thought they were mimicking factories. Which I guess prisons are mimicking factories, too.
Neoliberalism is just Taylorist factory ideology in a glossy iphone case
Hmm.... I thought it was just that the construction companies that build schools are the same construction companies that build prisons. But what do I know? (Probably nothing. Almost certainly nothing.)
Yeah, I always just assumed that they were usually the same contractor. There are plenty of new deal era schools that are actually kinda cool looking. Seems like as neoliberalism picked up, they started just making them out of breeze blocks and linoleum. They're just made cheaply with the cheapest possible materials.
My freshman dorm was literally designed by a prison architect though, so who knows. And yes, it was all breeze blocks and linoleum. The concept was a single central staircase that connected 2 wings to a common room on each floor. Girls and guys were each assigned a wing and the RA was in the middle. Straight hallways on both sides made it impossible to not be seen and made it easy for cops to catch you.
The place was literally like a barrel of fish for the local cops. They'd just come down and sneak up the stairwell till they smelled weed, then just flush everyone out and chase them down the halls. I think about 300 kids in my freshman class were expelled for smoking joints. There were like 6 arrests/week.
And now that I've written that out, OP is 100% correct.
it might not even be intentional, just... collateral damage from the collective cultural pressures.
what the shit do you call shit that's not conscious enough to be a conspiracy, and not accidental or unpredictable enough to be called an accident? conspiracy of trends? catastrophe of trends and forces?
yeah but that also includes, like, poop and skies and liverwurst. want a more specific term.
Oh thanks! I didn't know what the fuck to choose for a username, so, well, here we are.
We used to joke that my high school looked like a prison all the time. Unlike many schools, it was gated and kept closed during the school day, which made it seem even more like it.
School shootings are an op to expand security protocols and run drills.
Is this honest to god a picture of an american school? Why is there razor wire? Like i've heard how shitty american schools are, but why razor wire? And why in a position to make it hard to get out rather than in? Why is there a fence at all?
I think it's a photoshop but a lot of schools erected fences (no razor wire) in response to school shootings.
I don't think that's the solution. That won't stop anyone dedicated. Didn't they also put cops in schools?
Doesn't matter if it's a solution or not. All that matters is if you can sell it. Entry control into US schools is a growth market. All new schools implement it and older schools are being remodelled to accommodate it.
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Really though, beyond the deep philosophical discussion of how institutions classify, manage, and control individuals, I think this connection has been overblown (certainly prior to the last 10-15 years). The vast majority of schools are not boarding schools, so right off the bat there's a massive difference in suitability for long-term occupancy. There's also nothing comparable to individual cells (so controlling more than a handful of unruly individuals is a major problem) and traditionally the security features of schools were often less than what you'd find at a private company of similar size. Sure, you have a fence and locks on the doors, but so does any business in the area, and you don't have guard towers, interior pill boxes designed for riots, wall-to-wall surveillance, guards in every room, etc.
Now this is changing (especially with respect to surveillance and guards), but I'm not convinced this should be on the all-time list of great ideas.
white chappy chaps: "haha this architecture looks sinister lol" I wonder why is there no critiques of racism on the socialist left?
mine were funny. driving down the road, you first see an elementary school, then you see a middle school, then you see a highschool, then you see a national guard barracks, then you see an army base
its their proposed life progression lmao
