Elementary school Quote by Richard Price

School is another word for jail

— Emopop

For digital natives, public schools are jails

— Bing Gordon

“I knew from experience that next to jail the place with the highest concentration of trifling bitches was elementary school.”

— Patricia Williams

“Did you know that seventy-five to eighty percent of juvenile offenders can’t read at grade level?” “Really?” This was news to me. “Your world…

— Carolee Dean

“I learned that the way governors projected the numbers of beds they'd need for prison facilities was by examining the reading scores of third…

— Wes Moore

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

— John Taylor Gatto

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

— Mark Twain

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

School is a jail. Classes are the cells, teachers are the security guards, and students are the prisoners.

— Sydney Rogers

Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

— Ja Rule

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

— David Brin

“Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention”

— Anonymous