Check out picture #6 in this photo essay of the dedication of a renovated high school in Indiana:
Charlestown High School Dedication | Louisville Indiana | The Courier-Journal.
Medium security prison, or $40 Million public school renovation? Can you tell the difference?
Actually… is there a difference?
Another excellent reason that government schooled kids just love learning in public schools is because they are so well designed for their intended purpose.
Wouldn’t you agree?
Skipping School 
Wow. I thought it *was* a prison when I first saw the picture!
There’s an area I used to drive through on a daily basis. Within the space of a few miles, I had to first pass a middle school, and then a juvenile prison and then an adult prison.
My kids were usually with me on these trips. When each of my kids has been 5 or so, each one asked “Is this a school or a prison?” about the juvenile prison and the school, both. They couldn’t tell them apart just by looking! Once they could read, they knew which was which.
How depressing…thanks for sharing.
Linda
I have to tell you that my husband just looked at this and laughed and said “It’s a joke! That had to have come from The Onion!” So I clicked the link to take him to the original article and showed him the picture there…