Schools are basicly mini dictatorships or banana republic's, both in the way they are organised, and run. Most have uniforms, which are expensive and poor quality. And which don't allow you to dress appropriately for the seasons. Things like only allowing shorts in the middle of winter. They have their own sets of arbitrary rules, that they can change or add to at any time.

A good example of all of this was my former high school. One particularly cold winter, a 400Amp main fuse blew. Due to too much heating load from the prefab classrooms that only had electric heaters. The solution - no more electric heaters, you can freeze. But the offices that housed the admin staff had their electric heaters going, despite that building also having radiator central heating. They were too lazy to do an electricity audit, to get rid of electric heaters in buildings that had central heating. And to check for any other obvious power wasters. That would have allowed the prefab classrooms to be able to continue to use their electric heaters. It made me think of the ruling classes in a dictatorship living in luxury. While the commoners suffer and live with day to day struggles.  

The other issue is that there are laws that say that you must attend school. So any analogies comparing schools to say supermarkets, a workplace ect. Are not valid.