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> I don't know what you get out of riding a hobby horse about punishing kids. It seems quite suspect, tbh. I'm a parent, a tax payer, and just a member of a so
by _mlbt 1y ago
> I don't know what you get out of riding a hobby horse about punishing kids. It seems quite suspect, tbh.
I'm a parent, a tax payer, and just a member of a society that I would like to remain civilized and ordered.
Kids that think it is okay to damage public property for something as silly as a social media challenge have the serious potential to become adults that think it's okay to damage other people's property if they don't face consequences for their actions. Also, children that see other children doing things like this without consequences become emboldened to mimic this behavior.
- potato3732842 1y agoJFC, they're 12 or whatever. Just make them finish out the year doing paper work with no chromebook (or some other long term inconvenience that teaches them that if you break things they go away and it sucks not having them) and call it good. I'm far more worried about kids thinking it's ok to use the jackboot to solve petty problems that arise out of dumb trends or thinking that it's ok for government institutions to threaten people with unreasonable consequences for things.
- hnta051425 1y ago[flagged]
- mindslight 1y ago[flagged]