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?

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          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.

          • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            There are a ton of better ways to teach kids. The school system overall actively drains any passion a kid could have for learning.

    • Opposition [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      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.