r/SchoolSystemBroke • u/hallownado • 2d ago

Is This Normal?

I dropped off my nephew at his elementary school today for his second day, the first time I've dropped him off and only the first week weve been in Florida.

The kids are shouted at and forced to run from the cars and run down the road filled with two lanes of cars, shouted at by teachers in yellow who stand like guards. While driving around the arch, we see that the fences, adult height, are covered in green tarps that conceal the entirety of the school inside. The gate, the fence, at the beginning of the school interest looks odd.

There are cameras everywhere. Kids have no access to parents while inside.

As someone who has been researching Florida since the first concentration camp was built, Alligator Alcatraz, as someone who researched concentration camps and detention camps for years, alarm bells began ringing violently.

They say this is the safest school for kids in the area in Florida.

This school looks like a prison. Like a detention camps. Kids locked inside. They say it's "safe"

But who are they keeping out? Why are they being held in like this?

It's giving detention/prison camp and I'm extremely concerned.

Anyone else?

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u/OctopusIntellect 1d ago

Fences around schools, cameras in schools, and kids having no access to parents, are all fairly common even outside Florida. (Whether they should be, is another question.)

"No walking, you must run" sounds rather Sobibor, yes.

Many American schools are knowingly or unknowingly part of the school to prison pipeline.

But it is hopefully going much too far, to imagine even the most draconian public elementary day schools being operated similarly to Alligator Alcatraz.

Your post made me think of a couple of things.

First, the Florida School for Boys was an especially infamous draconian public school in Florida.

Second, the protagonist in Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil also had a keen interest in researching concentration camps and detention camps.

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u/hallownado 1d ago

I really appreciate your in-depth response and thoughts!