It's my life And I'll do what I wanna
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
Victor Hugo
"He who opens a school door, enters a prison."
Pasquin
Quick, is this a school or prison? Hard to tell, first glance. But there are ways to tell the difference, right?
Dude, that's so stupid. In prison, you're forced to stay there until the judge lets you out.
Just try escaping school before sixteen (Eighteen if Obama gets his way). A man with a uniform will come to your home and take you away.
But prison has guards and guns and stuff.
Have you been to an urban school? Security guards and metal detectors.
Schools are for learning.
Prisons are for rehabbing. Semantics.
That's stupid. If they were the same, they'd do the same things.
Like obsess about searching for drugs and weapons entering their facility? They don't do that at Disney World. Or anywhere else people aren't FORCED to go.
Quote all you want about how education leads to better outcomes, but turning government schools in to pre-prisons is not the way. Why is it perverse that prison owners are for tougher laws, meaning higher incarceration levels and profits, and not when government schools have the same incentives?
A teenager, with a mom struggling to pay bills and wipe snotty toddler noses, may choose family over a school day that involves two film strips, study hall, and review algebra. That's rational. Making him a criminal solves nothing.
The answer isn't to toughen the schools, it is to make school more pertinent. Remove the government monopoly on education and see enrollment go up without a swat team.
Victor Hugo
"He who opens a school door, enters a prison."
Pasquin
Quick, is this a school or prison? Hard to tell, first glance. But there are ways to tell the difference, right?
Dude, that's so stupid. In prison, you're forced to stay there until the judge lets you out.
Just try escaping school before sixteen (Eighteen if Obama gets his way). A man with a uniform will come to your home and take you away.
But prison has guards and guns and stuff.
Have you been to an urban school? Security guards and metal detectors.
Schools are for learning.
Prisons are for rehabbing. Semantics.
That's stupid. If they were the same, they'd do the same things.
Like obsess about searching for drugs and weapons entering their facility? They don't do that at Disney World. Or anywhere else people aren't FORCED to go.
Quote all you want about how education leads to better outcomes, but turning government schools in to pre-prisons is not the way. Why is it perverse that prison owners are for tougher laws, meaning higher incarceration levels and profits, and not when government schools have the same incentives?
A teenager, with a mom struggling to pay bills and wipe snotty toddler noses, may choose family over a school day that involves two film strips, study hall, and review algebra. That's rational. Making him a criminal solves nothing.
The answer isn't to toughen the schools, it is to make school more pertinent. Remove the government monopoly on education and see enrollment go up without a swat team.