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Well that’s not very smart IMHO. To me they look like human shields. Shame on me as I was blaming Hamas for using residential compounds for military ops but it looks like everyone does it. I wouldn’t send my kid to a school on military base especially in times of imminent war. I label that gross negligence and even provocation.

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The problem is that the soldier parents want their kids to live with them on the base. The alternative is they have their kids live in an orphanage somewhere else until they decide to retire, or soldiers just aren't allowed to have kids at all. Neither is very realistic, so there are schools on bases.

Orphanage ? What about a school 2 miles away from the military installation or in Iran's given case why don't they move their sh** at the edge of the city like the shopping malls do? It may be a bit inconvenient, I get that it's inconvenient but it's far from the orphanage story. Not to mention in case of war...should the kids be kept close to a military base? Military installations within residential areas just beg for civilian casualties. Is as simple as that. If you see a military base near you move out or ask them to move out.

Usually they serve military families, but at least in the United States those kids probably aren't any safer from getting killed in an off-base school given how common school shootings are now.

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