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He claims that schools are not places for children to learn, develop, and flourish. Rather, he argues that schools are designed to suppress children; to dehumanize them and restrict them from growing up and becoming adults. Some of Gatto's criticism is fair.
"Is the backpack in the hall her's" is the correct way to complete the sentence, since we are dealing with a possessive singular noun, which requires the apostrophe to go inside the "s".
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a thing designed to catch people attentions