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Comment author: [deleted] 18 June 2015 09:32:40AM -1 points [-]

I was under the impression that US schools have far more surveillance. I mean my school experience was like that, but it was a poor school at the ass end of Europe, no campus police no security guards no cameras no staff nothing, just teachers and kids, and teachers usually spending the breaks in their lounge, drinking coffee, so nothing kids did to each other was noticed and punished, pretty much free reign. I sort of expected US schools to be under far more surveillance. Prisons, too. There are no privacy rights in prison, none at all. If a country can afford it, there is supposed to be camera in every corner?

Comment author: Lumifer 18 June 2015 03:40:27PM *  3 points [-]

US schools have far more surveillance

That depends. US schools are run by local (not even state) governments, usually towns, and there is huge diversity in what a school might look like.

Public schools in big cities (NYC, Philly, etc.) basically are prisons with wire fences, metal detectors, cameras everywhere, etc. I've seen a school with no windows -- it was designed this way so that there were no windows to break. But schools in e.g. rich suburbs are nice places, similar to college campuses.