You joke, but the public school system was purpose-built to condition kids to working in factories. Even down to the 45 minute classes and the sound of the old school bells, which are built to mimic factory bells.

Nowadays, public schooling doesn't prepare you for any job. Not even Taco Bell.

The Progressives built the system so that if you said "This feels like High School" they would assume you meant it felt like a factory. Now it means that it feels like something so fundamentally broken that it's like a shitty prison.