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5 Ways Public Schools Prepare Us For Prison Life

 
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It didn’t occur to me that the six-foot fence around the perimeter was meant to keep me in. That is, until the day I decided to leave.

Fed up with being kicked around the schoolyard, I decided to do what any intelligent human being would do: go home. I soon learned this wasn’t a viable option for a sixth grader.

Looking back, it’s not real clear who was surprised the most by the situation — the school authorities at my assumption that I would actually leave, or me, at the revelation I had no choice in the matter. Apparently there were laws. Huh, who knew?

The view of the playground fence from the jungle gym was never quite the same.

****

Parents strive to prepare their children for school. We teach them to recite the alphabet, to count, and learn their colors. Is that preparation really enough to survive the next twelve years of compulsory education?

In spite of its intended purpose, after you boil away the Friday-night lights, dances, and hook-ups, all you have left is a state-run institution, excreting the same social sludge as its cousin the prison system.

When you stop and think about how similar they are, you have to wonder: is the system designed to ready children for society, or to provide the mental skills for prison life?


Why is everyone always bashing Texas? She makes some good points. The idea is to think outside the box. Not be another flap that just helps keep the box shut.

What did you learn in the locker room shower?

Mandatory gym showers usually begin around 7th grade. The time in human development when boys and girls have no self-awareness or inhibitions — no wait, that’s a toddler.

Can you think of a better way to teach herd behavior than to strip naked an entire class of adolescents and corral them into open shower stalls? Sweat is not the only thing washed down those drains.

However, it is a good way to prepare kids for the other lessons you’ll need for prison life.

Lesson #5. Intimidation and Violence Make You Important.


The school system is a natural breeding ground for a parasitic social order and the playground is the perfect Petri dish to cultivate the dark side of human behavior.

Kids quickly learn to either dominate or stay off the radar. Both are highly useful skills when entering the prison yard.


Refining your social skills...

After mastering the necessary social skills to rise to the top, the leaders hold “the keys to the car.”

Lesson #4 Powerful Cliques Rule.


Schools and prisons alike are artificial environments. Both institutions (however important the reason) hold their inhabitants captive for at least eight hours a day. For children, that’s the majority of their young lives.

It doesn’t take a psychologist, only an observer, to understand that the natural needs of family, along with the companionship and protection it provides, are still a paramount necessity — and nature finds a way. However distorted it becomes.

Keep reading: [link to pjmedia.com]
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lol normal life is awkward, dangerous, ruled by strength etc. this is all normal. never has it been different.
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I've never attended a school with a fence, nor do any schools here have fences around them.

This truly sounds like it's how to rationalize being a good little slave versus prison.
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You can add private schools to the list.
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you're fucking insane.

please kill yourself cunt.
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Says the one who is telling someone to kill themselves. bushfing
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stfu you cheap slut.

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LOL! How did I KNOW that it was an Aussie spewing that garbage. You guys are just the absoulte LOWEST maggots on earth.
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talk to the hand bitch
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I am a fifities model and I was naughty in school. I tossed chalk board erasures out the third story class window.
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I started using Dian Fossey's writings on ape social behavior to deal with my fellow humans when I was in sixth grade. It worked. I ended up accepted by the cool clique while still staying under the radar. It was pretty funny...

What was really funny is when my guidance counselor started suspecting I was either into or distributing drugs based on my sudden rise in the social ladder, and I told him what I was doing.

He was extremely pissed off, telling me that I couldn't treat humans like apes then threatened to tell the cool clique what I was doing. So I used Dian Fossey's writings on how to deal with ape aggression on him and he stopped.
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haha you legend
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It didn’t occur to me that the six-foot fence around the perimeter was meant to keep me in. That is, until the day I decided to leave.

Fed up with being kicked around the schoolyard, I decided to do what any intelligent human being would do: go home. I soon learned this wasn’t a viable option for a sixth grader.

Looking back, it’s not real clear who was surprised the most by the situation — the school authorities at my assumption that I would actually leave, or me, at the revelation I had no choice in the matter. Apparently there were laws. Huh, who knew?

The view of the playground fence from the jungle gym was never quite the same.

****

Parents strive to prepare their children for school. We teach them to recite the alphabet, to count, and learn their colors. Is that preparation really enough to survive the next twelve years of compulsory education?

In spite of its intended purpose, after you boil away the Friday-night lights, dances, and hook-ups, all you have left is a state-run institution, excreting the same social sludge as its cousin the prison system.

When you stop and think about how similar they are, you have to wonder: is the system designed to ready children for society, or to provide the mental skills for prison life?

What did you learn in the locker room shower?

Mandatory gym showers usually begin around 7th grade. The time in human development when boys and girls have no self-awareness or inhibitions — no wait, that’s a toddler.

Can you think of a better way to teach herd behavior than to strip naked an entire class of adolescents and corral them into open shower stalls? Sweat is not the only thing washed down those drains.

However, it is a good way to prepare kids for the other lessons you’ll need for prison life.

Lesson #5. Intimidation and Violence Make You Important.


The school system is a natural breeding ground for a parasitic social order and the playground is the perfect Petri dish to cultivate the dark side of human behavior.

Kids quickly learn to either dominate or stay off the radar. Both are highly useful skills when entering the prison yard.


Refining your social skills...

After mastering the necessary social skills to rise to the top, the leaders hold “the keys to the car.”

Lesson #4 Powerful Cliques Rule.


Schools and prisons alike are artificial environments. Both institutions (however important the reason) hold their inhabitants captive for at least eight hours a day. For children, that’s the majority of their young lives.

It doesn’t take a psychologist, only an observer, to understand that the natural needs of family, along with the companionship and protection it provides, are still a paramount necessity — and nature finds a way. However distorted it becomes.

Keep reading: [link to pjmedia.com]
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OMG! i'm in love...

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I love how this thread has disintegrated. You can really tell who went to public school judging by the insults.
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I love how this thread has disintegrated. You can really tell who went to public school judging by the insults.
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you would have to be a real selfish arsehole not to send your kids to a school. kids need to be with other kids, how the hell else do you you think they learn about relationships and the real world?
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I love how this thread has disintegrated. You can really tell who went to public school judging by the insults.
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you would have to be a real selfish arsehole not to send your kids to a school. kids need to be with other kids, how the hell else do you you think they learn about relationships and the real world?
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I dunno. Maybe by going out and having relationships in the real world?

This mentality that schooling is essential for the mental and emotional development of the youth is completely unfounded. Humanity has gone for thousands of years in thousands of places with no "public" education systems and will continue to do so for the next thousand years.

And you know what? All those kids are going to be fine.
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I love how this thread has disintegrated. You can really tell who went to public school judging by the insults.
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you would have to be a real selfish arsehole not to send your kids to a school. kids need to be with other kids, how the hell else do you you think they learn about relationships and the real world?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16640891


I dunno. Maybe by going out and having relationships in the real world?

This mentality that schooling is essential for the mental and emotional development of the youth is completely unfounded. Humanity has gone for thousands of years in thousands of places with no "public" education systems and will continue to do so for the next thousand years.

And you know what? All those kids are going to be fine.
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this aint the friggin 1700's buddy.

step into the real world.
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I love how this thread has disintegrated. You can really tell who went to public school judging by the insults.
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you would have to be a real selfish arsehole not to send your kids to a school. kids need to be with other kids, how the hell else do you you think they learn about relationships and the real world?
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Are you saying that homeschooled kids do not learn about relationships and the "real" world?

lmao
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...and next time your homeschooled darling feels loney cuz he has no friends, tie a bit of meat to his neck...maybey the dog with play with him.
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Yep sounds about right. And the climate of fear of saying anything 'wrong" to the teachers , administrators, or thugs therein.
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I'm with you, Sister! Even my son understands this! He is 5!
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I remember when I was 12, this was the song that I clung too, because I knew, even at that age, that we like animals being herded.


I also remember saying to my friends during recess that the school looked an awful lot like a prison...


Be damned if I wasnt right.
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I'm with you, Sister! Even my son understands this! He is 5!
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I remember when I was 12, this was the song that I clung too, because I knew, even at that age, that we like animals being herded.


I also remember saying to my friends during recess that the school looked an awful lot like a prison...


Be damned if I wasnt right.



Americans are the biggest bullshitters i've ever encounted.

seriously cruisecruise
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...and next time your homeschooled darling feels loney cuz he has no friends, tie a bit of meat to his neck...maybey the dog with play with him.
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This^^^ Is why you shouldnt send your child to public school, also.
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I'm with you, Sister! Even my son understands this! He is 5!
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I remember when I was 12, this was the song that I clung too, because I knew, even at that age, that we like animals being herded.


I also remember saying to my friends during recess that the school looked an awful lot like a prison...


Be damned if I wasnt right.

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Americans are the biggest bullshitters i've ever encounted.

seriously cruisecruise


No, being honest with you. I didnt know the artist or even the name of the song, I had just heard the lyrics on the radio.

"All in all, your just another brick in the wall", was the only part that I knew, but it stuck with me.
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dude, wtf is up with the red crayon? this isn't a kindergarten moran
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I started using Dian Fossey's writings on ape social behavior to deal with my fellow humans when I was in sixth grade. It worked. I ended up accepted by the cool clique while still staying under the radar. It was pretty funny...

What was really funny is when my guidance counselor started suspecting I was either into or distributing drugs based on my sudden rise in the social ladder, and I told him what I was doing.

He was extremely pissed off, telling me that I couldn't treat humans like apes then threatened to tell the cool clique what I was doing. So I used Dian Fossey's writings on how to deal with ape aggression on him and he stopped.
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Well you seem to treat women like sex objects so it seems you were not as enlightened as you thought. I know your type. You tasted "cool" but it didnt last and you can't handle that and live in your pathetic past which is long gone and you know you are nothing now. Boo hoo hoo.
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I love how this thread has disintegrated. You can really tell who went to public school judging by the insults.
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you would have to be a real selfish arsehole not to send your kids to a school. kids need to be with other kids, how the hell else do you you think they learn about relationships and the real world?
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You are too dumb and not worthy of a response.
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I love how this thread has disintegrated. You can really tell who went to public school judging by the insults.
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you would have to be a real selfish arsehole not to send your kids to a school. kids need to be with other kids, how the hell else do you you think they learn about relationships and the real world?
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You are too dumb and not worthy of a response.
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that's why you just replied to me.

putin

good lawd
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dude, wtf is up with the red crayon? this isn't a kindergarten moran
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Its so dipshits, such as yourself, notice what is said.


I know thats a bit deep for you, but there you have it.
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dude, wtf is up with the red crayon? this isn't a kindergarten moran
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Its so dipshits, such as yourself, notice what is said.


I know thats a bit deep for you, but there you have it.

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riveting stuff
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...and next time your homeschooled darling feels loney cuz he has no friends, tie a bit of meat to his neck...maybey the dog with play with him.
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You are an IDIOT! I homeschool my 2 daughters and the neighbor boy who is public-schooled is knocking on our door every freaking day after school looking for my daughters because he is so enthralled with them, as are ANY of the neighborhood kids they play with. My oldest can go and make friends with anyone and it has nothing to do with public or homeschooling, moron, and my youngest will not thrive in public school even though she is very bright and deep, and I am prepared to do whatever it takes to offer her the best world I can possibly offer her, and I am sick of people like you turning this beautiful commitment to our children into some form of child abuse, if only your parents had cared this much about you maybe you wouldn't be such a rotten soul!
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May 21, 2012 - 12:02 pm


It didn’t occur to me that the six-foot fence around the perimeter was meant to keep me in. That is, until the day I decided to leave.

Fed up with being kicked around the schoolyard, I decided to do what any intelligent human being would do: go home. I soon learned this wasn’t a viable option for a sixth grader.

Looking back, it’s not real clear who was surprised the most by the situation — the school authorities at my assumption that I would actually leave, or me, at the revelation I had no choice in the matter. Apparently there were laws. Huh, who knew?

The view of the playground fence from the jungle gym was never quite the same.

****

Parents strive to prepare their children for school. We teach them to recite the alphabet, to count, and learn their colors. Is that preparation really enough to survive the next twelve years of compulsory education?

In spite of its intended purpose, after you boil away the Friday-night lights, dances, and hook-ups, all you have left is a state-run institution, excreting the same social sludge as its cousin the prison system.

When you stop and think about how similar they are, you have to wonder: is the system designed to ready children for society, or to provide the mental skills for prison life?

What did you learn in the locker room shower?

Mandatory gym showers usually begin around 7th grade. The time in human development when boys and girls have no self-awareness or inhibitions — no wait, that’s a toddler.

Can you think of a better way to teach herd behavior than to strip naked an entire class of adolescents and corral them into open shower stalls? Sweat is not the only thing washed down those drains.

However, it is a good way to prepare kids for the other lessons you’ll need for prison life.

Lesson #5. Intimidation and Violence Make You Important.


The school system is a natural breeding ground for a parasitic social order and the playground is the perfect Petri dish to cultivate the dark side of human behavior.

Kids quickly learn to either dominate or stay off the radar. Both are highly useful skills when entering the prison yard.


Refining your social skills...

After mastering the necessary social skills to rise to the top, the leaders hold “the keys to the car.”

Lesson #4 Powerful Cliques Rule.


Schools and prisons alike are artificial environments. Both institutions (however important the reason) hold their inhabitants captive for at least eight hours a day. For children, that’s the majority of their young lives.

It doesn’t take a psychologist, only an observer, to understand that the natural needs of family, along with the companionship and protection it provides, are still a paramount necessity — and nature finds a way. However distorted it becomes.

Keep reading: [link to pjmedia.com]
 Quoting: TXGal4Truth

It's all part of the indoctrination process isn't it... Never really thought of that aspect of the social engineering we go through ...interesting. Schools are like prisons these days, for a child looking out of the classroom window seeing all of the whats like prison security must have a profound effect on the childs psyche deep down... what criminaly insane bastards we live under!...

You are gorgeous by the way!

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Numbers 5,4, and 1 make me wonder. And Ive always thought that schools resembled prisons, with being forced to be trapped in a building doing school work all day and god forbid seeing the sun, 7 hours a day, 5 days a week for almost a year every year.
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Lack of sun can cause a deficiency of Vitamin D...you can take all the suppliments in the world and drink fortified milk but they only provide the PRE-currsor for Vit. D, you must have sun on your skin to produce it....sun screne anyone...

Plus they control the foods...breakfast now as well...like the prisons and the military...government produced foods...

Take a look at your local law enforcement buildings especially newly built and the prisons, then look at the design of you newer schools...the 'decorations'...and look at your new 'boys and girls club' buildings...

stripes created by different colored bricks/blocks...like stripe on the old prison outfits...no longer on the inmate, but now on the building...

Visited Boys and girls club cus my step-son was enrolled...creepy as all get out...run by kids, no safety, the 'guards' stand around the 'yard' and do little to interact with the 'inmates'....unless a fight breaks out...

I have taught afterschool programs, this was nothing close to the program I worked for...it was scary...

BTW, my kids were instructed to sneak away if the school ever tried to herd them on a bus to take them to a second location...otherwise known as an evacuation.

My kids may have thought I was a little out-there back then but when we talk now, I don't look so silly.

Many of the people in these institutions are well meaning and love the kids, if only they realised how they were being used.

bye for now.
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...and next time your homeschooled darling feels loney cuz he has no friends, tie a bit of meat to his neck...maybey the dog with play with him.
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You are an IDIOT! I homeschool my 2 daughters and the neighbor boy who is public-schooled is knocking on our door every freaking day after school looking for my daughters because he is so enthralled with them, as are ANY of the neighborhood kids they play with. My oldest can go and make friends with anyone and it has nothing to do with public or homeschooling, moron, and my youngest will not thrive in public school even though she is very bright and deep, and I am prepared to do whatever it takes to offer her the best world I can possibly offer her, and I am sick of people like you turning this beautiful commitment to our children into some form of child abuse, if only your parents had cared this much about you maybe you wouldn't be such a rotten soul!
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you're a selfish tard....and your little darlings more than likely lack social skills.

there is no reason to homeschool unless your kid is disabled. home schooling your brat results in less ciriculum, less interaction with others of the same age and over dependancy of parents...


selfish arsehole.
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My second grade teacher was a clapper. She kept us on the edge of our seats at all times. Clap! Clap! I hated that teacher so much it gave me stomach aches.
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Prepare? It already is, probation officers working at the high schools, calling cops on the grade schoolers for every little thing , the whole neighborhood is on probation.





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