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So apparently school-survival is an Advocacy Organization.
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Quote:What this site is REALLY for is to make people's lives easier, surviving in school if they can't stand it.
That about sums it up 
Actually, maybe I should make that more clear. It just sort of grew and now you can pretty much say it's about a lot of things, some of which are totally inaccurate.
Quote:What responsibility does the school have to allow positions that are offensive to the majority of those paying to support the school financially to be promoted with their resources? Next we can expect Islamic terrorists to say they have a right to form a club promoting the art and science of suicide bombing? Would you go for that?
Sure, having a right to kill people and having a right to choose whether or not you want to be forced to go to school are absolutely in the same category! ... not. 
Quote:They've actually been looking for people who visit this site so they can confront us, so chances are I will tomorrow or sometime next week.
This site specifically? That's... interesting. Ooooh, my site is all infamous now. w00t. 
Yeah. I should make a huge link somewhere that states the actual original purpose of this site...
This is a support site for students who can't stand being forced to go to school. We are not advocating or encouraging you to drop out, rebel or do anything in particular. What you do is your decision and yours alone, we can just provide support and information. What works for one person won't necessarily work for everyone. That is all.
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I like it.
I highly suggest Mobb Deep's albums The Infamous and Hell on Earth, if you have not listened to it yet.
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I'd change it to "we are not encouraging dropping out... or not." - make it more clear that you as a person are capable of both options.
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How's this one?
This is a support site for students who can't stand being forced to go to school. We are not telling you to drop out, rebel or do anything in particular. What you do is your decision and yours alone, we can just provide support and information for whatever choice you may make. What works for one person won't necessarily work for everyone. The point is: the choice is yours to make. And if, for whatever reason, other people refuse to let you make that choice, you will always find someone here willing to listen to you.
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akdonn Wrote:What responsibility does the school have to allow positions that are offensive to the majority of those paying to support the school financially to be promoted with their resources?
Actually, I must say, school kinda falls into a special category. You see, school's unique in the way that's it's compulsory to a degree. NO OTHER ORGANIZATION IS. People have a choice if they want to say, buy and eat Cadbury chocolate. A good example is the HS I went to. You see, we had to have the internet for class. But no, it wasn't free there. We had to PAY FOR IT. And, even worse, we had to pay 15c per megabyte of dl. That's the same we pay the big ISPs for going over our bandwidth limit. And guess what? If we didn't pay for it, we'd fail class. Like it? Fork over cash or fail class. Wonderful choice we have there isn't? 
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SoulRiser Wrote:How's this one?
This is a support site for students who can't stand being forced to go to school. We are not telling you to drop out, rebel or do anything in particular. What you do is your decision and yours alone, we can just provide support and information for whatever choice you may make. What works for one person won't necessarily work for everyone. The point is: the choice is yours to make. And if, for whatever reason, other people refuse to let you make that choice, you will always find someone here willing to listen to you.
I really like that one.
On that note, you really do some great work on the site; thanks. 
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Oh, and shove it in the disclaimer.
And what Thunder said.
I highly suggest Mobb Deep's albums The Infamous and Hell on Earth, if you have not listened to it yet.
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Wow, now we have a "mission statement." That's special!
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darthmat Wrote:Oh, and shove it in the disclaimer.
I highly suggest Mobb Deep's albums The Infamous and Hell on Earth, if you have not listened to it yet.
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Oh, sorry for nagging. xD
I highly suggest Mobb Deep's albums The Infamous and Hell on Earth, if you have not listened to it yet.
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darthmat Wrote:Oh, sorry for nagging. xD
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That sucks man.
Had to move on. Account is dead.
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Re: So apparently school-survival is an Advocacy Organization.
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Alucard483 Wrote:I learned a neat trick to day and did a search on which topic to post it in that would suit it best, this appeare to be it (note: I have read nothing but the first post). I have the same shit at my schools. All the CPUs are linked to a monitor computer. the only way (or so i previously thought) to get around this was to uninstal it. However this year we signed a contract saying we would not do that, but we still do. Recently they started cracking down HARD on that shit. So I learned a way around it. However you can no longer use the internet, so download your shit before hand or keep it on a thumb drive. Go to run and type CMD. Then type ipconfig /release. This nills your IP. In effect you just sut down ALL activity going in our out of your computer without breaking rules like "I will not uninstal ____ program"
Eidolon Wrote:But wouldn't that stop you from getting on the site?
You have no IP!
And if you did this, would it just revert back to the way it was after the computer is rebooted?
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Re: So apparently school-survival is an Advocacy Organization.
yes it would prevent you from doing so, howeverthey can no longer stop you from doing OTHER stuff
Whilst some work diligently there are those who ask why. I am one of them
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Re: So apparently school-survival is an Advocacy Organization.
Bring a laptop to school and plug it in.
To death to me part
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Re: So apparently school-survival is an Advocacy Organization.
it's amazing how this site is unblocked at my school! 
If you are reading this, then you have no life
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