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zzyzzx
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2011 Oct 20, 2:38am
zzyzzx
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2011 Oct 20, 2:38am
It's because parent's are way stupider than they used to be. Google something called "helicopter parents"
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Huntington Moneyworth III, Esq
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2011 Oct 20, 4:32am
Huntington Moneyworth III, Esq
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2011 Oct 20, 4:32am
Public schools serve to teach the underclass rabble how to be obedient. I feel the factory floor of a smelting plant serves this purpose best but I see the side benefit of turning children into obese and pliant consumers of garbage. Like fat little anchors, they keep the pissant parents in line and at their proper station in life serving men of stature and merit like me.
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I'm not sure if its because I wasn't paying as much attention when I was younger, or that schools were more consistent in quality or if it was the region I grew up in ( NC) where schools were generally decent, but after having lived on both coasts in major metro areas one thing seems very apparent and that would be that parents seem to obsess over schools.
Back in the day it seemed like parents in my neck of the woods sent us off to whatever school happened to be around. They just stuck all of us runts on a bus and off we went. Nobody seemed to make that big of a deal over it. It was just public school. "Somehow" most everyone I went to school with all made it out just fine and have gone on to mostly successful lives. I'm sure the school I went to was ok but probably not remarkable. It certainly wasn't the best. It was adequate.
Parents here seem to make schools into this crazy thing that has to be discussed, fretted over, measured, and graded all the time. People place their home purchases on whatever school happens to be nearby. They will pay sometimes 50% or more for the privilege of living near the "Best" schools. On and on and on.
Now granted I don't have nor plan on having kids. So I really don't have any sort of desire to care about schools. But I swear people here seem to be way over-obsessed with this subject. Anyone else concur? Just curious.