School threats: your opinion?

**Frownland** · 12-15-2015, 06:10 PM

You didn't have finals in high school?

The Batlord · 12-15-2015, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You didn't have finals in high school?

He's from New Jersey.

simplephysics · 12-15-2015, 06:58 PM

Meanwhile my college has had three armed robberies in the past 12 hours and they sure as hell didn't cancel any finals. The campus emergency alert call system has been blowing up my phone all day.

DwnWthVwls · 12-15-2015, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You didn't have finals in high school?

Yeh I had finals. In like May/June when school was almost over...

Just checked the calendar in my home town and Semester 2 doesn't end until Jan 26, which is around the time midterms would be. Idk, how different schedules are in Cali but you're no where near midterms or finals around here.

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Originally Posted by mordwyr

Yes. People never socialized before the advent of public schools.

No, before public schools kids socialized at work. Education aside you get a lot of life experience going to school.. You're subjected to culture, people with different points of view, bullying, etc. Not sending your child to school for at least a couple of years is a huge disservice, especially if they plan on going to college. And yes I understand there are plenty of extracurricular activities they can do to get similar experiences but it's just not the same.

Chula Vista · 12-15-2015, 10:46 PM

Have to agree. School is not just knowledge education it's also social education. Eventually those kids become adults and have to deal with the real world. Closeting them during the school years might get them better grades but it's going to make the transition to the real world harder IMO.

Unless, of course, you don't get pimples and you hang out on a forum populated with elder degenerates.

Not to mention that school affords the chances of having innocent teenage exploratory sex much more likely.

*fondly remembering Kathy, Donna, and Michelle*

The Batlord · 12-15-2015, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Have to agree. School is not just knowledge education it's also social education. Eventually those kids become adults and have to deal with the real world. Closeting them during the school years might get them better grades but it's going to make the transition to the real world harder IMO.

Unless, of course, you don't get pimples and you hang out on a forum populated with elder degenerates.

Not to mention that school affords the chances of having innocent teenage exploratory sex much more likely.

*fondly remembering Kathy, Donna, and Michelle*

Chula Vista · 12-15-2015, 11:23 PM

To be fair, I'm fondly remembering myself as 15-16 too.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Have to agree. School is not just knowledge education it's also social education. Eventually those kids become adults and have to deal with the real world. Closeting them during the school years might get them better grades but it's going to make the transition to the real world harder IMO. Unless, of course, you don't get pimples and you hang out on a forum populated with elder degenerates. Not to mention that school affords the chances of having innocent teenage exploratory sex much more likely. fondly remembering Kathy, Donna, and Michelle __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	To be fair, I'm fondly remembering myself as 15-16 too. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”