You can tell you've never been to school before... [It's not disparaging. It's just an observation. He's reluctant to say it, but...]

At school they make you just keep doing things over and over until they work out right. So it's possible that even if we 'hurt our cases' over and over... it'll not stop until everyone here learns their lesson.

But that's just a theory. It could just be a game they're playing, even.