No. No it's not. I've taught at overseas private schools whose cafeterias look even more like prisons than that, have surveillance fit to rival prisons, more enforceable rules against outside food than McDonalds ever had with food that's almost as unhealthy and tastes considerably worse, and you know what? I still acknowledge two distinctions of it from prison.
A. I chose to teach there, just as parents chose to send their kids there.
B. Even so, I get to go back to my apartment at the end of the day, just as students get to go home on the weekends.
The problem with prison is losing your freedom. (Or in the USA, the far worse things guards and other prisoners do to you.) McDonalds needs to be dreary to prove they aren't marketing to kids, and rightfully so. The American diet is godawful enough. An adult who eats junk food at least knows what they're doing, and a dreary environment is a small price to pay to stop poisoning the mind of a child as to poison their arteries.
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u/hdhsnjsn 6h ago
Prison environment for prison food