Comment by immibis
5 hours ago
Fascism isn't a precise pattern-match to Mussolini's Italy, it's a vague region of concept space which contains Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and many others.
5 hours ago
Fascism isn't a precise pattern-match to Mussolini's Italy, it's a vague region of concept space which contains Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and many others.
Calling public school fascist is likely a exaggeration. But isn't good either.
Public schools are highly authoritarian. Students have low/no rights and are at the behest of administration.
Student's property is routinely confiscated/stolen due to some "rules".
School rules are capriciously applied, including nonsensical rules.
Schools claim parentis in loco, but take no responsibility to the 'Lord of the Flies' bullying situation either. Many times, bullies get away with it.
0 tolerance policies are 0 thought policies.
Students are compelled to attend school on threat of jail for them and parents. And somehow even as "substitute parents", they're not even required to feed them?!
Much of the contracting companies serving public schools also serve the prison industry, for largely the same reasons.
For a country that leans towards a democratic republic, the schools teach for first 12 years an authoritarian dictatorship. Doesnt seem healthy at all for a society.