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1. 🎄 Rick 🎄 (praxisofevil@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 14:36:12 JST 🎄 Rick 🎄
   Interesting excerpts from a thread detailing a teacher's struggles with growing rates of illiteracy in students.
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   • Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 14:36:52 JST Kenny Blankenship

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     @PraxisOfEvil lmfao God bless America. God bless this shitty, decrepit, dissolving country
   • Corfiot (corfiot@pleroma.elementality.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:06 JST Corfiot

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     • Owl
     This is the #1 issue we should be discussing. We're all freaking out about the results of fucking up our kids and not about how we actually fuck them up early on.
     
     When you're a kid/teenager the future is this amorphous blob you can't think clearly about. People around you usually do not help: "you can do/be whatever you wish". This fucks up teens so bad (kids too). No, you can't be anything you want, there are things you're good at and things you're not good at. And there are things you just can't be good at no matter how hard you try, e.g. play the nba at 5' tall or be a space pilot with an IQ of 70. Or be a woman if you're a boy (I make a point not to forget to alienate that crowd in every post).
     
     We should really stop:
     a) prettying up the grades so we don't "hurt" kids (and parents)
     b) coddling laziness disguised as mental or physical illness
     c) rewarding participation without effort - downplaying success
     d) overloading them with activities - taking their childhood away
     e) burdening them with ADULT things (like politics and ideologies)
     f) making them feel ashamed for things they can't change (skin color, temperament, height, etc)
     g) ignoring their need to be accepted by their peers (not their parents), which is #1 in their brain well into ages 17-18
   • fishsticks (fishsticks@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:07 JST fishsticks

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     • Owl
     @Owl @PraxisOfEvil They are working on them. The thing is that they're making them worse to the point where they are developing dysfunctions that weren't there until they made them a reality.
   • :meru_B: b e a r d (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:07 JST :meru_B: b e a r d

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     • Owl

     @fishsticks @Owl @PraxisOfEvil teens want something to be wrong with them because they think it makes them quirky, and then it becomes an actual problem for them. i have seen so many fucking people get actually depressed because they made depression their aesthetic.

     my roommate's sister was actually upset that nothing was weird with her and so she was self-diagnosing herself with all sorts of shit, and even told him that she wished she had his physical deformity. that's pretty fucked up.

   • 🎄 Rick 🎄 (praxisofevil@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:08 JST 🎄 Rick 🎄

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     • Owl
     @Owl Everyone is self diagnosing mental illness, I remember being on forums when people started claiming they had aspergers in the mid 2000s, it's only grown exponentially worse
   • Owl (owl@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:08 JST Owl

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     It’s just people pathologizing their stupid quirks and dysfunctions so they don’t have to work on them and improve them.

     Much easier to just watch more Rick and Morty and play more fucking Switch.

   • Owl (owl@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:09 JST Owl

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     OH MAN I WONDER WHERE THEY LEARNED THAT FROM

     Maybe the generation before them had a nasty habit of pathologizing every little imperfection they had so they could get out of doing stuff too! Wow, that’s amazing! Those two things might just be related!

   • RetardedServantOfChrist✝️ (retardedservantofchrist@urchan.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:28 JST RetardedServantOfChrist✝️

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     • Corfiot
     • fishsticks
     • Owl
     Muh no child left behind lmao. The reality is, tons of people don’t need to be in school. They should be plowing a field or wrestling a goat or something. The idea that education is for everyone is retarded.
     
     The trend for me seems to be completely private quality education for those that can afford it and everyone else just being warehoused in a giant govt depot.
     
     You have to discriminate if you’re going to be productive at all.
   • FiveStarAce (fivestarace@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:35 JST FiveStarAce

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     • Hoss Delgado
     You will work until you can't anymore and then you will be given the choice: Take the funny pills (paid by Credit card OF COURSE) or die.
   • Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:35 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • FiveStarAce
     • :hacker_o::hacker_k::hacker_u::hacker_u: :sonnenrad:
     I will not take your antichrist pills, but I will accept a bogus ADHD diagnosis and an ample supply of pharma-grade speed on demand.
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   • Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:36 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Assisted suicide is coming to the US and it will be pushed as a panacea for everything from inceldom to unemployment.
   • 🎄 Rick 🎄 (praxisofevil@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:37 JST 🎄 Rick 🎄

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     It used to be that when someone had reading/writing deficiency in school they would go into the workforce as an unskilled laborer but if they were lucky they could secure a factory job and stay there until retirement. Judging from this thread though it seems a massive number of kids are either unwilling/unable to learn at the required rate and since the unskilled labor positions are being filled by immigrants it's going to be interesting when the idle portion of the US population explodes in the next decade.
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   • :hacker_o::hacker_k::hacker_u::hacker_u: :sonnenrad: (okuu@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:37 JST :hacker_o::hacker_k::hacker_u::hacker_u: :sonnenrad:

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     @PraxisOfEvil That raises an interesting question. What will happen to these people who not only can't get a job because they were all taken by immigrants, but are incapable of getting a job because of their low intelligence? Is that when the government copies Canada and starts rolling out assisted suicide?
   • Punished Ghost (lonewanderer@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:51:52 JST Punished Ghost

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     • FiveStarAce
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     • Hoss Delgado
     I was on that, I'd rather have the ADHD. Shoulda kept the Rx and got blowies from art hoes