Point 1: Schools and Prision are one in the same

In Smart Kids, Bad Schools, Brian Crosby makes the point that schools and prisons are very similar. His point is that schools should be a more inviting environment for children, and if that happened, students would have more of a likelihood to succeed in school. He says that schools need to innovate to help students (i.e.: comfortable chairs, nicer desks, etc). Though I agree with this point, I think going about it would be difficult, and it wouldn't last. Keep in mind I'm speaking as a student, having been through the education system (or nearing the end of it, rather). I don't know where schools would get the money to get these 'innovations'. Nor do I think people would take care of these items. They'd probably end up like the desks and chairs we have now--in pretty horrible shape. Just from some of the people who attend our school, I think it's fair to say with some certainty that things would not be taken care of if we were given something nice.

Mr. Crosby also brings up that from childhood, students would be taught to take pride in their new schools, thus decreasing the chance of vandalism and whatnot to school's property. Again, not a bad idea, but what about high school and middle school students NOW who don't respect their school's property? What do we do about them? It's simple psychology, say that you can't do something and most often, someone will lash out and do it anyway. My point here is that if we took the middle and high school students and said "oh you can't mistreat the chairs/property/whatever", someone will do it anyway. I don't think you can have a complete education overhaul unless we take a year, maybe 2, off to do the things we need to do to create this new education system.