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"This class isn't a Democracy, it's a Dictatorship. &qu
Yeah, real quote from my grumpy-as-hell History teacher. And to beat down our rights, she said I was disturbing the class when I was saying "Rights are like muscles, if you don't exercise them, they'll disappear." And then she said that she had the right to silence us.
Re: "This class isn't a Democracy, it's a Dictatorship.
Newtown Wrote:Yeah, real quote from my grumpy-as-hell History teacher. And to beat down our rights, she said I was disturbing the class when I was saying "Rights are like muscles, if you don't exercise them, they'll disappear." And then she said that she had the right to silence us.
She's just having a power trip. If you really want to push the issue, stage a walkout of her class the next time she acts out. One quarter of my Child Development class walked out one day in my senior year, after a student was kicked out. It shook her up. After that she lightened up.
Ayliana Wrote:She's just having a power trip. If you really want to push the issue, stage a walkout of her class the next time she acts out. One quarter of my Child Development class walked out one day in my senior year, after a student was kicked out. It shook her up. After that she lightened up.
Too bad i'll most likely get suspended. Any other ideas?
Most teachers support the dictatorship mentality because they're impotent in their own lives, so feel the need to make their captive audience miserable.
Newtown Wrote:Too bad i'll most likely get suspended. Any other ideas?
So what if you get suspended? I must've been suspended for at least ten days between my junior and senior year. And thats not including the days I just said to myself "You know, I just don't feel like going today."
Newtown Wrote:Too bad i'll most likely get suspended. Any other ideas?
So what if you get suspended? I must've been suspended for at least ten days between my junior and senior year. And thats not including the days I just said to myself "You know, I just don't feel like going today."
Well I just don't want to get killed by my dad...don't call me a wuss.
Re: "This class isn't a Democracy, it's a Dictatorship.
Your DJ Parents Wrote:And then she said that she had the right to silence us.
Ohhhh, the Constitution disagrees. I think I'm going to print out a copy and keep it in my pocket. Next time a teacher tells me to shut up I'll point to that nice little amendment at the very beginning providing me freedom of speech. Then I'll ask when they were granted authority to override the laws of their founding fathers. :]
and they'll say either "when i became a teacher," "you're not really a person so it doesn't count," or "sit down and shut up or i'll give you detention."
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
11-13-2007 09:58 AM
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RE: "This class isn't a Democracy, it's a Dictatorship. &qu
(11-13-2007 09:58 AM)Rebelnerd Wrote: and they'll say either "when i became a teacher," "you're not really a person so it doesn't count," or "sit down and shut up or i'll give you detention."
And then I'll run out of the building,screaming some "incomprehensible gibberish" about the 14th amendment.
Hidden stuff:
"CONSENSUAL incest is not wrong. (Abuse victims: being abused by a relative does not make it wrong for others to have consensual incest, any more than rape by a stranger makes all sex wrong. Sex and assault/molestation are two different things.) An aversion became common in humans that aided in population growth as one disease couldn't wipe out the human race. That's not a problem anymore.
Consensual incest is very common. You know people who have been involved, whether you know it or not.
There is no rational reason for keeping laws or taboos against consensual
incest that is consistently applied to other relationships. Personal disgust or religion is only a reason why one person would not want to personally engage in what I call consanguinamory, not why someone else shouldn't do it. An adult should be free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with ANY consenting adults. Youthful experimentation between close relatives close in age is not uncommon, and there are more people than you'd think out there who are in lifelong healthy, happy relationships with a close relative. It isn't for everyone, but we're not all going to want to have each others' love lives, now are we? If someone thinks YOUR love life is disgusting, should you be thrown in prison?
Some people try to justify their prejudice against consanguineous sex and
marriage by being part-time eugenicists and saying that such relationships inevitably lead to “mutant” or “deformed” babies. This argument can be refuted on several fronts. 1. Some consanguineous relationships involve only people of the same gender. 2. Not all mixed-gender relationships birth biological children. 3. Most births to consanguineous parents do not produce children with significant birth defects or other genetic problems; while births to other parents do sometimes have birth defects. 4. We don’t prevent other people from marrying or deny them their reproductive rights based on increased odds of passing along a genetic problem or inherited disease. It is true that in general, children born to consanguineous parents have an increased chance of these problems than those born to nonconsanguineous parents, but the odds are still minimal. Unless someone is willing to deny reproductive rights and medical privacy to others and force everyone to take genetic tests and bar carriers and the congenitally disabled and women over 35 from having children, then equal protection principles prevent this from being a justification to bar this freedom of association and freedom to marry.
Some say "Your sibling should not be your lover." That is not a reason. It begs the question. Many people have many relationships that have more than one aspect. Some women say their sister is their best friend. Why can’t their sister be a wife, too?
Some say “There is a power differential.” This applies least of all to siblings or cousins who are close in age, but even where the power differential exists, it is not a justification for denying this freedom to sex or to marry. There is a power differential in just about any relationship, sometimes an enormous power differential. To question if consent is truly possible in these cases is insulting and demeaning.
Some say “There are so many people outside of your family." There are plenty of people within one’s own race, too, but that is no reason to ban interracial marriage. So, this isn't a good reason either. Let consenting adults love each other the way they want!"-Keith Pullman
01-27-2017 12:24 PM
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"This class isn't a Democracy, it's a Dictatorship. &qu
A lot of teachers do this, along with some parents
My English teacher is great tho, today he told us that despite how it is in fact a teacher-student sort of thing, he always tries to be humble and recognizes that we are equals as we are all human
well would you look at the time its time to gay
01-27-2017 03:24 PM
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"This class isn't a Democracy, it's a Dictatorship. &qu
I've heard of some schools that already do that.
"I’M BEGGING YOU, PRINCE ZUKO! It’s time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big question: who are you and what do YOU want?"
" While it is always best to believe in one’s self, a little help from others can be a great blessing"
-Uncle Iroh(Avatar: the Last Airbender)
"This class isn't a Democracy, it's a Dictatorship. &qu
No kidding, they actually do out in New York and other cities. Right before I graduated it was seriously proposed at my high school. I wonder if they actually implemented it.