then one day two girls got into a fight in the cafeteria and there were so many students watching the armed police who are permanently stationed on campus felt unsafe. administration rang the bell early and all the administrators, janitors, others were suddenly on radios and bullhorns announcing break was over, handing out detentions for anyone not quickly jumping up to their next class, and i remember seeing an additional police officer riding his motorcycle aggressively INDOORS through a hallway to push students through.

after that, it was announced that we had lost the privilege of "break" indefinitely and only had 4 minutes between classes.

a year later they put up barbed wire fencing around the entire school and added metal detectors.

the "fight" involved no weapons of any kind. it was simply the armed pigs seeing a number of young people in one area well exceeding the number of rounds they were carrying.

schools in the US are prisons. they take away "privileges" and lockdown more and more every year. for "safety".

[–] huf@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

meanwhile one of my favorite stories from high school in hungary was simply going home for "empty" periods (a friend and i could skip english class because we'd done the certificate for english). it was easy since i lived a few stops away by tram, and then we could maybe watch a family guy episode and go back. and it was better than hanging around school.

so one day the vice principal caught wind of this and decided to stand on ceremony, so when we tried to go back to school for our final class after the empty period, we were denied entrance by the doorkeeper type person. which struck me as absurd. teenagers wanting to go into a school for music class of all things (a subject that "didnt matter") and being denied.

anyway, one of the gym teachers came along, heard us out and let us in because she too saw that this was absurd.

after that, they instituted a policy of you cant go out during the day, because blah blah legally responsible for you blah.

so we naturally climbed out the back.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

schools in the US are prisons.

r/teachers gets really mad when you make this point lol

[–] CatoPosting@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It has proven to be very controversial anytime I bring up my opinion that teenagers are one of the most oppressed groups in amerikkka

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

The existence of the troubled teen industry should've erased any doubts about that.