Poll: I would have preferred to compress my K-12 education into this many years.

Re:Poll: I would have preferred to compress my K-12 educatio... by slig on Friday June 19, 2009 @11:53AM (#665348)

3) You have to have a place to leave your kids during the day while you work.

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Re:Poll: I would have preferred to compress my K-12 educatio... by asciilifeform on Friday June 19, 2009 @02:28PM (#665645)

The idea that a 14+ year-old human is a "child" is a ludicrous modern delusion. Less than a hundred years ago, they sailed the seas, fought in wars, etc.

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Re:Poll: I would have preferred to compress my K-12 educatio... by branden on Friday June 19, 2009 @02:54PM (#665686)

Those are some pretty crappy things to make kids do. I'm glad we stopped.

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Re:Poll: I would have preferred to compress my K-12 educatio... by asciilifeform on Friday June 19, 2009 @03:14PM (#665712)

> to make kids do

And now most people (including you) also deny that the "kids" possess free will. I argue that this act is far more cruel than hiring someone to sail. And once again you take our society's ludicrous definition of "kid" as a given, as though it were an obvious law of nature that we turn from livestock into human beings instantly at age 18.

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