Ever think about how strange it is that — on a purely aesthetic level — schools for children are such dismal, ugly spaces? It'd be impossible to repurpose a typical school for any other business purpose at anywhere near the local market rate; people feel icky just standing in one
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This is what a school could look like, and is in fact what one school does look like because the children themselves collaborated on the design & construction processpic.twitter.com/ppyIt4EANu
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This occurs due to the fact that a bureaucratic blob designed all these buildings. I happen to know that many school districts also routinely get ripped off royally on construction and maintenance. Replace public schools with home and neighborhood schools, start college earlier
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Mine was a castle, if you need ideas :-)pic.twitter.com/XUniASJSfa
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My (admittedly upper middle class surburban) public schools didn't look like that. New schools are probably almost all way prettier than those are.
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Perhaps schools look like prisons because, like in prisons, the people spending time there didn't choose to and aren't the customers. And perhaps, like prisons, the facilities are there more for keeping the inmates out of the general population than teaching them new skills.
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