Every time I hear about "school shootings," I wonder why the focus on completely on the shooting, with nothing on the school.

Modern schools are essentially prisons. Architecturally, they even look like prisons. The wards march to the ringing of a bell, pass through security checkpoints, answer unquestioningly to authority.

Is it any surprise that prison style violence is the result, when the "losers" of this system have no other outlet?

(My thoughts on this got a little unwieldy so I turned them into a post over here, with a citation to this one. Thanks for the inspiration.)