i remember back when there was a move to pass "protective" labor laws for women, limiting how much weight they be allowed to carry etc, and how in the end these laws ended up being paternalistic, efforts by men to restrict women's access to "men's work". these so called protective measures you're writing about are similar in spirit and effect, it seems. oh how easy it is to argue about morality, in absolute terms. how hard to pursue the imperfect work of passing legislation that creates a path to a viable future...
Any conversation about the welfare of children that ignores their material needs in favor of abstract moral hazards should be treated as deeply unserious. And yet here we are with children drinking lead-laden water, living in insecure housing arrangements, starving at school, stressed out by unnecessary standardized testing based on pseudoscience and eugenics, and attempting to learn in dilapidated buildings with nonfunctioning HVAC systems, with nowhere near the same level of news coverage and political energy currently devoted to a few peoples weird hang-ups with queer identity.
Oh...BTW, the door knob on my classroom disintegrated the other day and the President of the school along with the Dean had to remove the whole door so my last period class could go home at the end of the day. Without a door one student asked what would happen if we had an "active shooter" and no door to keep them out. Dot, Dot, Dit ,Dit...damned if I know.
The bad actors may be a minority, but as Hillary, Rodham Clinton, and Kamala Harris proved they're a very powerful minority. Now, if we could just punish the two the same way they want to punish children, maybe we'd see some real reform once they had to live with it!
i remember back when there was a move to pass "protective" labor laws for women, limiting how much weight they be allowed to carry etc, and how in the end these laws ended up being paternalistic, efforts by men to restrict women's access to "men's work". these so called protective measures you're writing about are similar in spirit and effect, it seems. oh how easy it is to argue about morality, in absolute terms. how hard to pursue the imperfect work of passing legislation that creates a path to a viable future...
Any conversation about the welfare of children that ignores their material needs in favor of abstract moral hazards should be treated as deeply unserious. And yet here we are with children drinking lead-laden water, living in insecure housing arrangements, starving at school, stressed out by unnecessary standardized testing based on pseudoscience and eugenics, and attempting to learn in dilapidated buildings with nonfunctioning HVAC systems, with nowhere near the same level of news coverage and political energy currently devoted to a few peoples weird hang-ups with queer identity.
Oh...BTW, the door knob on my classroom disintegrated the other day and the President of the school along with the Dean had to remove the whole door so my last period class could go home at the end of the day. Without a door one student asked what would happen if we had an "active shooter" and no door to keep them out. Dot, Dot, Dit ,Dit...damned if I know.
The bad actors may be a minority, but as Hillary, Rodham Clinton, and Kamala Harris proved they're a very powerful minority. Now, if we could just punish the two the same way they want to punish children, maybe we'd see some real reform once they had to live with it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZuP-7UI0Xo