"These sorts of schools were modeled after prisons (and actually were designed by the same people designing prisons)." TFA says this is mostly legend more than

"These sorts of schools were modeled after prisons (and actually were designed by the same people designing prisons)." TFA says this is mostly legend more than fact. "Before the prison/factory campus came into existence, we did have beautiful schools. And they're still standing." This is survivor bias and tends to include expensive private schools and higher education. Most of those designs have similar "negative" features that the article describes as many of them are gothic, built in a time when glass was limited in size or expense, etc. "If you model it like a prison, then think about what this communicates and internalizes." Have the kids spent time in a prision? If the kids don't have a baseline for a what a prison is like, then this conjecture about what it communicates is moot as the fundamental exchange of the idea isn’t present. People reiterating that they are built like prisons are more detrimental than the design itself.