So imagine conservatives are out there telling each other:
First they gave women rights, and I did nothing.
Then they gave black people rights, and I did nothing.
Then Obama gave consenting adults the right to get married, and I did nothing.
Then Hillary gave trans people rights, and I did nothing.
Then QAnon told me I needed to act—and there was no one left to bully.
After trans people, who's next on the basic human right's agenda?
I’ve seen a lot of anarchists make good points about children needing more rights
Yeah kids need to know and have bodily autonomy. The US is the only country that hasn't signed on to the UN's rights of the child. And there's still probably a lot of pedos to kill.
Oh and alcohol tobacco and the :vote: should be younger. Age based prohibition is one of the biggest reasons behind America's shitty culture on substance abuse. And for voting, I was pretty sure at 16 that I had a better political grounding than any of the "adults" around and, now, while I'm definitely sure 16 year old me had a somewhat simplistic view of the world compared to current me, I also know they were a lot better at math than me so they may have been smarter because there have been like five untreated concussions since then, thanks, sport-pushing parents.
As long as kids are provided with a good political education I don't see any strong argument against letting sixteen year olds vote.
Traffic deaths went down when the drinking age went up. Maybe that's more a problem of car-dependent culture, but it's something to consider.
I guess the weird thing is having these things be set to a different age than adulthood, like the separation of drinking from other 'responsibilities' (not the right word but you know what I mean) is off, either your mature enough or not I guess is my mostly uninformed opinion.
Yeah, maybe move everything up to 25, supposed to be when the brain is actually fully developed, less impulsive. But that would hurt the prison and military industrial complex, gun sales, cig and booze sales, etc
can you elaborate?
Not OP but until they respond, I've seen it primarily revolve around how children basically have no rights and are at the will of their parents, regardless of how good/shitty the parent is. Children have zero bodily autonomy. A Christian Scientist parent can refuse a child's medical care or religious grounds with zero say from the child.
Additionally, children can be forced into conversion therapy, abused, put to work, etc and so much of it comes down to "my child, my decision".
That being said, I've also seen a lot of children not wanting to do their homework. Public school system is fucked up, but do your damn homework.
Apparently all the research shows that homework is counter-productive and doesn't really help kids with learning or retention. I'm told all the teachers and pedagogy groups are against it but there's so much institutional pressure to continue the practice that it just keeps chugging along.
Interesting.
I'm not entirely pro-homework, its more or less a sly at actual children.
Mathematics I think benefits from the repetition. I don't think fill-in-the-blanks history homework ever helped anyone.
Yeah, math takes practice. Personally I think gamification is the way to go for math practice. Kids won't do homework for shit but I bet if you offered fortnite bux and interesting math problems they'd go for it.
There are a ton of better ways to teach kids. The school system overall actively drains any passion a kid could have for learning.
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The purpose of public education is to socialize you and train you as a worker.
The education system will not teach you to think but to obey. You do not learn about nutrition, the philosophy of math, Euclidean geometry from a rigorous perspective. They claim that none of this is useful to most people, but these are the kinds of things that make you informed and able to think critically.
At this point, other commenters have elaborated better than I could have, haha.