'You Can Hear a Pin Drop': The Rise of Super Strict Schools in England

As with many things, the devil is in the details here. This can work very well, for some students, for a limited time.

It can also sound all-too-appealing to plutocrats who dream of slavishly-obedient workers, attract creeps who crave control over children, and hide horrific and systematic child sex abuse. And England has a centuries-long history on all of those.