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Do kids in your school care about their rights?
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Do kids in your school care about their rights?
Or even know what they are? I know this might be a stupid question but from what I've seen at my school I know a lot of them do, but I just saw a tv episode where the school has installed a new search policy for kids' lockers and bags and this one student is protesting but none of the others care. They're only angry about the mandatory uniform policy that also got installed.
So is this stereotyping correct? Do teenagers really not care? Or is that show full of shit?
Go to work. Send your kids to school. Follow fashion. Act normal. Walk on the pavement. Watch TV. Save for your old age. Obey the law. Repeat after me: "I am free."
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RE: Do kids in your school care about their rights?
As long as it happens to them they care. Otherwise nope. Got my locker searched last year, got pissed, and got in trouble for posting on facebook about how i thought it was unfair.
Nemo me impune nocet.
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RE: Do kids in your school care about their rights?
Most teenagers (and children) just accept it as that is the way things are. They know nothing else. Thankfully with the advent of the internet they can read opposing views. Like here on SS!
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RE: Do kids in your school care about their rights?
(11-24-2011 01:36 PM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote: Most teenagers (and children) just accept it as that is the way things are. They know nothing else. Thankfully with the advent of the internet they can read opposing views. Like here on SS!
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RE: Do kids in your school care about their rights?
(11-24-2011 02:58 PM)gore goroth Wrote: (11-24-2011 01:36 PM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote: Most teenagers (and children) just accept it as that is the way things are. They know nothing else. Thankfully with the advent of the internet they can read opposing views. Like here on SS!
SS: A bunch of society-hating cynics/misanthropes/furries. The last beacon of ed-freedom on planet earth.
I only fill the society hating description, well more like society disliking.
SS is still better than, oh say, the NEA website.
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RE: Do kids in your school care about their rights?
I would guess that well under 1% of the students at the school where I teach have any idea what the 4th Amendment is.
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RE: Do kids in your school care about their rights?
Most people assume that the status quo is good and right, and if it doesn't feel good or right to them, they come up with some rationalization and then spout that whenever anyone else questions the situation.
If they aren't quite that mature, they don't think about it at all, except that the teachers are in charge, equivalent to their parents, and all you can do is throw a fit and hope they give in; you can't use logic or anything.
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RE: Do kids in your school care about their rights?
My school is just full of little angels who will rat you out for breaking the smallest law and just accept they are inferior to others and worship the school... sucks.
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RE: Do kids in your school care about their rights?
If I knew my school was going to search our lockers I'd get everyone to load their lockers up with swastikas for the shits and gigs.
(01-10-2012 02:15 PM)Maelstrom Wrote: Efs, your nihilism is beautiful.
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