You can't drop out of jail.
You can't be home-jailed.
At the end of it, you get a degree.
You can't be home-jailed.
At the end of it, you get a degree.
House arrest
Prison education is pretty common
Granted, not everyone can leave jail. But take a boarding school and a minimum security prison and you're getting pretty close to the same thing.
So your analogies don't exactly work. I would suggest reading the work of John Taylor Gatto, A.S. Neil, Francisco Ferrer, and Paulo Freire, though, if you're interested in critiques of education systems and their alternatives.