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The School Survival Movement: Abolish Compulsory Schooling
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The Abolish Compulsory Schooling Movement

I have been discussing with Soul and I will be re-stickying this again. I believe she stickied it a while back but either another Forum Assistant is un-stickying it or there's a bug that was explained earlier that's causing it.

I'll elaborate more on using School Survival's name in terms of sponsorship, progress, and marketability so I'm on the fence in changing the title to what it once was. From what Soul and I were discussing I want to clear up some confusion and elaborate on maybe a couple of other things.

(10-10-2014 05:32 AM)brainiac3397 Wrote:  Id have preferred those remained since they were not entirely provacative. It was flammable opinions I was after, not opinions that were sharp and somewhat stingy.
Indirectly (or directly? o.O) they still had to do with what was nonconstructive and derailment so that's why I split those posts as well.

Seven crappy hours of our lives.
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2014 05:38 AM by GamerGurl.)
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