• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      … and Canadian

      I think the same people who designed prisons were the same people who designed modern high schools … both in the US and in Canada

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        Im pretty sure one of my history teachers in high school taught us this… same general ideas directing prisoners around.

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        I had a friend who complained about the high windows that you can’t even see out of in his high school, and he swore up and down that the building used to be a prison. I tried looking it up now to see the history, but I can’t find anything lol. Wouldn’t be surprised though if they actually were former prisons and the school just didn’t want the stigma associated with them.