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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
The majority of public schools in the states don't have funding for 10 year old computers or to fix their AC - nobody's funding prison-schools.
I would also assume that the schools you're speaking of in East Asia with the tight security are for the top 1% and that the majority of students attend schools with very, very poor infrastructure.
Unequal societies. Just gate off the whole community and get it over with, not just the school. Everywhere is going to resemble South Africa and Brazil.
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Development of the region is certainly a factor, but then I assume most of the US isn't being compared to rural areas of developing countries in terms of infrastructure. In developed regions lots of public schools are like this. In many contexts it would be having no walls that is the exception to the norm, not just something for the 1%.
It's just different norms, not prison schools.
I agree that education funding is definitely an issue in the US. Similarly to the gun issue, it comes down to the fact that if there's insufficient political will to change then nothing changes. Maybe there will eventually be political will to change gun laws. Hopefully there will be.