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Poor baby. I'm glad she was taken care of. 🙏
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I finally blew my stack over the “trans sports issue.” I’m sorry.
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This is exactly what happened at almost every media institution in America. And none of these red guard woke children have ever been held to account since. RIP Kevin, one of the best of the OG bloggers.
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A friend who saw me (and my fancy boots) across a crowded room the other night admitted that his first thought was 'oh dear, poor Lucy's hurt her foot, she must have been in a skiing accident.'
The school parent portals send out emails and text messages with every missed assignment. The schools are sending out the negative report, nudging parents to correct their kids behavior.
That triggers some helicoptering.
Growth comes through opposition and failure. It is very difficult to let one's child get hurt but it is necessary.
Haidt claims that the reduction in family size plays a role. With 10 kids, you might have a few screw ups, but some will do good.
Yeah, the framing of this post is ridiculous. I have to sign a sheet every single week affirming I looked at my child's grades for that week online (since they no longer send home graded papers).
Parents using that information to argue with and berate the schools and teachers is a separate issue (though even that I have more sympathy to than this post gives it - maybe the schools are great in suburban New York, but in bum-eff Louisiana where I live the education has been ... inconsistent, to put it kindly. I don't argue with grades, but I have had to intervene to get my kids remedial instruction or other support where they just weren't getting and never would from the school and kept failing in the meantime).