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originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: seasonal
Lightweights.
We had an actual Slave Day at my high school where the seniors, to help raise money, would be auctioned off to the under classmen to be their literal slaves for a day. Drive them to school? Check. Carry their stuff? Check. Fetch their lunch? Check. 'Entertain' your female slave owner if requested? Double check.
Kids these days are such wimps.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: seasonal
Lightweights.
We had an actual Slave Day at my high school where the seniors, to help raise money, would be auctioned off to the under classmen to be their literal slaves for a day. Drive them to school? Check. Carry their stuff? Check. Fetch their lunch? Check. 'Entertain' your female slave owner if requested? Double check.
Kids these days are such wimps.
originally posted by: Aazadan
Yes. I'm fine with it. They're not being abused, they're under supervision, and they get to understand a bit of the experience.
originally posted by: Morningglory
WTH is this John Wayne Gacy High or what?
Maybe instead of lining kids up/taping their wrists teachers should show instructional videos on how to escape zip ties/duct tape. You know just in case someone kidnaps them to supply the present day sex slave industry. That's far more likely to impact kids today than black slavery of old. Just saying.
I can't think of a good reason for allowing anyone to bind my wrists. Can't think of a single one and unless you're my husband don't even try. I certainly wouldn't give anyone permission to do that to my child. It's not something that should ever be normalized and by giving my approval, it could send a dangerous or confusing message.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Aazadan
The same thing you are.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: diggindirt
The story said that there was a permission slip, but do we really believe this to be true. Who would sign this? In fact who wouldn't at least call and ream the principal's butt?
Something does not pass the smell test.
originally posted by: intrepid
a reply to: Aazadan
Are you a teacher? This sounds like the elitist BS that I dealt with with my kids when they were younger. It was wrong then and it's wrong now. The only difference here is that you can hide behind internet anonymity.
originally posted by: Grambler
But overall, allowing parents and individuals control over there own life is the best possible system, as anything else has extreme negative possibilities.
So even if a person may make a bad choice for themselves, it beats the alternative.
originally posted by: tribal
a reply to: Aazadan
my my....you are really off the rails my friend. If you think a scientist detached from familial bonds knows better than a parent who has created, nurtured, birthed and raised another human being 24 hours a day for years you might look into getting some common sense of your own.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
Public schools can't handle redneck children anymore.
You might be a redneck if...
A policeman asks for your ID, and you answer, "About what?"
Your neighbor spits grass when he talks.
In the delivery room, your husband says, "That's worse than skinning a deer!"
You refer to your cousin as "my girlfriend".
You wake up the day after your wedding to find your sister next to you.
Your lips move while reading a stop sign.
originally posted by: tribal
Who is most qualified to make "optimal" decisions for us if not us?
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: odzeandennz
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: Aazadan
What's the problem with this?
I'm seriously not understanding the outrage here.
You're OK with binding 13/14 year olds who have done nothing wrong, then?
SMH
The problem with this is, frankly, you and anyone who thinks like you on this sort of topic.
you're ok with preserving and idolize as heroes the statues of the people who wanted to keep these conditions alive and civil
erasing history and all that bullocks
Yes, yes I am. Inanimate objects commemorating history is not the same as tying a 13 year old's hands and walking them through a play acting session of a slave ship experience. As is usually the case, your perspective is sorely lacking.