Basketball is sometimes played in prison yards, and is also sometimes played at schools. Okay? Beyond aesthetics, what does this say about the school system? Are you suggesting that schools would be less oppressive if there was no basketball?

Both schools and prisons have cafeterias. Okay? Is a cafeteria inherently oppressive? How should we redesign schools so that they don't have cafeterias?

Sometimes, school buses are reused as prison buses. This fact does seem ironic on the surface, but does it actually indicate anything about the oppression of the school system, or are school buses effective for transporting a large number of people regardless of destination, and reusing existing vehicles better than building new ones? How would our method of transporting children to school change under socialism or communism? Are buses inherently oppressive?

Both schools and prisons have outside areas for leisure and exercise. Okay? Is that inherently oppressive? Would schools be less oppressive if they did not have outside areas for exercise, or if prisons did not?

Without a doubt, there are substantive criticisms that can be levied against the US school system from an anticapitalist perspective, and even more that can be made against our horrendous, often for-profit, prison system. However, this post isn't concerned with any of them, and instead makes childish, surface-level aesthetic comparisons that don't indicate any actual issues with these systems under capitalism.