Two more articles in that series on class, this time featuring education...

They won't both fit here, so hold on a sec.

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Here's the second article.

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Taken from asperger

I can safely say I'm disgusted.

Sure, you teach the kid to do something "because I said so". And as soon as you're not around to boss them - or they're old enough to move out, they won't do it anymore. Alternatively, you end up with a kid like me, who will never do something for that reason, because "that's not a reason". Sure, you punish your kid... and then you forget about them? Prisoners in jails aren't expected to stay there indefinitely because, well, we forgot when you were supposed to get out.

I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but I have this strange idea that when you treat your kids with less respect than criminals get, you're just setting yourself up for problems.

Me as a Child...

Heh. Oh, this'll be fun.

( Cut for TEH TRAUMA!! )

This is all rather disjointed. I'm sorry.

Sequel to the earlier post.

kibbles mentioned that it sounded like I went through a rough time growing up. Well, yes and no. Fact is, I typed that last post because I was upset (at kibbles, actually, though she didn't deserve it), so I was typing until I stopped being upset.

So to even it up a bit, I'm posting a few more things about my childhood, which aren't quite so negative. Well, I hope not, anyway. I'm still not in a great mood, so I'm still typing without thinking, so who knows what'll happen?

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The other one was better. I thought too much while posting this. On the other hand, I trust this shows that my life wasn't terrible, horrible, no good, very bad (one of my favorite picture books).

I've never really thought of myself as patriotic.

Probably all goes back to how I was raised. My father was a communist. He felt that MLK's methods weren't aggressive enough, or something. Or so says my mom.

*shrugs*

I don't want to believe this news story. I don't want to believe any of it. I don't want to believe in that damn Iraq memo, and I don't want to believe that elections can be rigged, and I don't want to believe that people can fight to remove the civil rights of others. I don't want to believe that this story won't make big press in American media.

So maybe I'm more patriotic than I thought. Fortunately for me, I do believe all this, even though I don't want to. And all I want is for things to go to the way they should be, with as much honesty and openness as possible.

Heh. That's not going to happen, either. I need to get out of this world. Does anybody know if the Martians accept dual citizenship?