Paleo Retiree writes:
Which is the prison, which is the school?
Shouldn’t the architecture be giving us more of a hint than it is? And why do we sentence children to spend many years of long days in buildings that might as well be prisons?
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Answer: the first pic is of a random mid-American school, taken from Google Maps. The second pic is of Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina.
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Reminds me of a line from Buffy: when asked how was school, Dawn replies, “a big, square building filled with boredom and despair.” Sums it up rather well.
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Jeez, the sky itself has fallen ill from having to stare on that dreary school day-in and day-out.
In case anyone else needs a little cheering up, check out this photo-thon of Denver public schools from the Jazz Age. Raise your kids out in the mountain west, and spare them the mind-mushifying monotony of school life in New Scandinavia.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=197209
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Look at how isolated that school is, too. It’s not enough to lock the poor kids indoors all day long — it has to be in some desolate wasteland too. Otherwise they might get distracted by signs of life and activity outside. Is there a neighborhood, park, pool, shopping center, or anything at all nearby?
Parents will gripe that it takes them longer to drive out to the middle of nowhere for drop-off and pick-up, but that’s a small price to pay in order to seal their child in a cocoon away from Outside Influences. Then when their kids emerge in a still-larval state, they complain about the schools failing to properly incubate their children — instead of, y’know, letting your kids grow up by themselves like you did.
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