I've been thinking a lot about the
Horace Mann Facebook Scandal. The NYMag article intro says the following:
When students created Facebook pages that viciously attacked a teacher, and when their wealthy parents on the school’s board defended them, Horace Mann was forced to confront a series of questions: Is a Facebook page private, like a diary
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I love the idea of ethics classes running through a child's entire education. That is awesome.
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They have had a HUGE role in making me who I am today.
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If I ever had children, and could afford New York private schools, I would totally send my kids there.
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But we'll apply... and apply for financial aid too :)
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Okay, in what freaking UNIVERSE am I, as a parent, supposed to be okay with my kid using racism and sexism as a stress-buster?
Stress is an excuse for not getting your homework done or losing your temper when challenged on an intellectual point or perhaps skipping school to go to the zoo. Stress is not an excuse for oppression.
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I grew up in Fort Worth, TX. And was around for the whole Legion of Doom thing back in the mid-80's. You may have heard about it. It got huge write-ups in places like Rolling Stone. Vigilante group at a local high school who set pipe bombs in order to "control" what they saw as a drug-using, problem-causing population at the school, which mostly equated to the part of the school population that wasn't white. One of their most charming tricks was painting graffiti on the bike paths of the park behind my house that said, "Ethiopian n*****s must die." It scared the crap out of me ( ... )
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