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  • Kids are not your property.

    Legally, parents/guardians are responsible for them. If my kid breaks something in a store, do they arrest my kid if he's unwilling to pay?

    If your kid is trans or gay and they don’t feel safe coming out to you then that’s your fault.

    I agree.

    There are no decisions being made

    Deciding to intentionally withhold information from parents is a decision.

    Kids are going to be queer weather you like it or not.

    I agree.

    If you think you can “do something” about your kids being queer then that’s probably why they don’t want to tell you.

    I agree.

    What are you even arguing, dude? You're just saying some blanket statements.

  • Please try to understand something about the American criminal justice system before you comment on it.

    I wrote a comment starting that I'm not knowledgeable and asking for more opinions.

    You told me I don't understand it, need to read up more and that you have the answers. Then you have people correcting you and you need to edit and correct your comment.

    Seems like I have the right amount of confidence in my response, and you are way too over confident.

  • I'll keep asking the same question -

    If these were knife accidents, would you support banning knives?

    This sounds like parental neglect, and should be treated as such. The tool doesn't matter, it's the fact the parents neglected the safety of their kids.

  • People with money are and are likely going to be “more successful” regardless of where/if they go to school. They’re also likely to have more free time and resources to use after-school test improvement courses. It’s like saying “the children of billionaires are more likely to become at least be millionaires when they are adults.”

    Interesting, so people that have the ability to send their kids to different schools, like having a school choice, is having more input and the kids are provided better materials and resources than they are in public schools!

    There’s also a huge issue of private schools being for profit businesses, so looking good is important.

    first off, not all private schools are for profit. Secondly, that's the point, they need to do well, or they don't make money. That's like saying 'dammit, apple only makes money because they provide a service that billions of people pay for and enjoy!! grrrr, I wish we just had one standard government phone for everyone!"

    They will pass students who don’t deserve it.

    Really? You're saying the private schools are the issue with this? Public schools it's literally illegal to hold someone back.

    There was at least one charter school that had almost no attendance but an almost 100% pass rate, because it was more profitable to pass them regardless and not enforce attendance.

    And baltimore public schools produce illiterate kids. You think using one example to base your opinion off of all charter schools is okay? I'll do the same but can name hundreds of public schools.

    Profit should not be the measure of success for a school, so why would we ever want to make that the case?

    I didn't. I made test scores and success in life a metric for it. Right now, schools are more segregated since they were literally segregated.

    Your policy of forcing every kid to go to public school and requiring that parents will need to pay 40k to a private school to get a better education only hurts people. There are plenty of benchmarks we can require to ensure private schools take in students from different demographics. Right now a poor inner city kid is sent to a shitty inner city school, without an option to actually go to a good school. Give parents the option to do that.

    but look at how little money teachers make. Things need to change for sure, but that isn’t turning them into institutions for turning out money rather than good students.

    How public schools are run aren't making good students. I want to switch it up by offering the choice for schools.

  • People familiar with the matter told the outlet that Bannon hoped Kennedy could serve as a "useful chaos agent" in the election while also spreading "anti-vaccine sentiment around the country," according to CBS News' Robert Costa.

    That's the evidence?? Unnamed sources telling a reporter this? come on man.

  • There’s a gap between questioning and transitioning

    If Jimmy is now going by Cindy, that's a social cue of transitioning.

    Kids need people they feel safe talking to. Kids need to be able to ask questions about the world without feeling like they’ll be punished. You mentioned in other comments about programs to reduce abuse, but what about something as simple as:

    I agree they need people they feel safe talking to. Schools have counselors.

    It shouldn't be up to teachers to determine the morality of what the kids saying and whether they should share it with the parents or not.

    Well, little Timmy, you shouldn’t have told me that because I now need to legally tell your parents. Hope you’re ready to feel unloved just for asking a question, nerd.

    See? You have to be incredibly hyperbolic to even create a situation where it'd be bad for parents to discuss with parents about the children's behavior.

    If instead of a teacher, your kid starts going to church and has these secret meetings with pastors and priests, are you comfortable with that?

  • You trying to lump personal identity in with things that can lead to jail or teenage pregnancy is very telling.

    Yes, it's called 'behavior.'

    The government forces parents to send our kids to government institutions for 'education' and if we want to know what's going on they tell us to shut up? Nah, family, I don't buy into that philosophy.

    Should teachers also report when your child makes friends with a student of a different race or religion?

    Did you not parent teacher meetings where they talk about how you're doing in school and who you're hanging out with?

    You keep referring to teachers ‘making decisions about the child’ but nothing is being ‘decided’ by teachers here.

    The teachers are deciding to withhold information about how my kid behaves in a government forced institution. The teachers should be working with parents, not fighting against them.

    It’s the children who are deciding this for themselves because they’re also people with autonomy.

    How much autonomy? If they can decide for themselves, why shouldn't we remove the drinking age? Smoking age? military age? They're people with autonomy, right? If a kid gets caught drinking, their parents deal with it, not the kid.

  • Please explain how this is a “left” thing.

    The general views have been that republicans are for parents being able to use their school funding for alternatives. The left is against that. That's how it is a 'left' thing.

    , the left is the only advanced-thinking society we have.

    I feel like your bias. You can recognize and criticize your own party. I promise, you don't have to just agree with everything they do.

    If we left it to the right, we’d all be kneeling in a f*-k*g church somewhere.

    In this situation, no, some would just be at different schools. Whether it's charter schools, private or home schooling.

    I responded with several sources and points, showing that we've been spending more and more money, getting worse results and that private and homeschooling have shown to provide better equipped individuals to society. What do you think of these arguments?