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<p>What do all of you think?</p>
<p>Honestly, the video seems ridiculous. High school is nothing like prison…</p>
<p>Open campus makes it better.</p>
<p>o.O</p>
<p>A bit exaggerated, ey?</p>
<p>Wow, that is incredibly exaggerated. Prison = 3 squares and a cot, you never get out, you’re surrounded by bars, you don’t get regular contact with family. We have tens of MILLIONS of kids in school, and yet we have very few instances of violence (relatively) etc in schools and they are mostly from overcrowded, inner city schools that take it in from their home life rather than from the schools.</p>
<p>Over-medicating is a problem, but that isn’t the school’s fault. Schools are not allowed to medicate a child, only a parent is. There IS such thing as ADD, but not all children treated for it have it. Many just come from parents who would rather dope their kids up than have to actually deal with them. PARENTS are doing this, not teachers. </p>
<p>This is one of the more ridiculous, poorly put together videos I have ever seen.</p>
<p>I think the videomaker is making generic assumptions about all schools, while in reality he is focused on a very small subset of schools, namely the inner-city American schools. For example, my school looks in no way like that; we have order without police officers, and students, for the most part, do not feel like they are in a prison at all.</p>
<p>You guys must go to great schools…</p>
<p>The reality is that in too many parts of the US, school IS simply a place to keep the teens enclosed. In my high school, the school was literally locked in during hours, with a permanent sheriff on campus. Some kids there were simply serving time until they turned 18, when they would no longer be a burden on society. And the food… I would have been happier eating prison food.</p>
<p>Full open campus. Kids can come and go as they please and be wherever they want in the school. It’s great.</p>
<p>I feel this video is exaggerated too. Although my school (open campus) has gates just to keep the strangers out, one gate is always opened to allow the students to go to the library. And during lunch, some of the seniors were able to leave campus to go to McDonalds.</p>
<p>I had a closed-campus high school with police. Whoever thinks that high school is “oh-so hard” and a “prison” that is used to keep students until they are 16, I have news for you- grow up. Life is hard, deal with it. High school is a hell of a lot easier than anything else you’ll encounter in your life. Try going to a REAL prison and then try being a drama queen and claim that high school is like a prison- I promise, you’ll change that whiny attitude real quick. </p>
<p>By the way, you only HAVE to go to school until you’re 16. Plus, you could ALWAYS bring food from home if you didn’t like the food- prisoners don’t have that option.</p>