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Her Majesty

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Why does school feel like prison? Perhaps because everyone is dressed in uniform inmate cloths? Need to give a headcount every hour? Don't even have the liberty to use the restroom at their own convenience?  Few of these inmates are provided with differentiating blazers for cramming propaganda infused syllabi enough to fall into an arbitrarily imposed quantitative criteria. In the setting of a supposed classroom, a tyrant exercises their arbitrary prerogative over the bodily functions of lowly miniscule creatures. Seniority justifies abnormal behaviours of hurling abuses and baseless allegations towards younger individuals. If they dare to retaliate, they are deemed a clear case of insubordination. The miniscule creature's futile effort to safeguard whatever little sense of dignity they have acquired are labelled instances of indiscipline. While some experienced players in this regard shrug it off, others are scarred for life post public humiliation.  The tyrant at this point ...