[mr_toad]

> What is it about schools that are different from other gatherings?

They leave large groups of children unsupervised for up to an hour at a time.

It should be obvious to any parent or anyone who’s had much to do with children what’s going to happen.

[Nasrudith]

Plus the forced into the same location dynamics - guess where we also see that? Prison. If you defined the school system behavior using prison system behavior it is hard to find anything present in schools not essentially present in prison. Graduation/release, lipservice of "development of skills" when they really worry about socialization the most.... Seriously could someone find anything that proves school isn't a subset of prison in its behaviors instead of just how people treat it?