The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[OccultHawk]

American teenagers are about three times as likely to kill themselves as Mexican teenagers.

I can’t prove a causal relationship but I believe the inherently abusive nature of compulsory education is the top reason American kids off themselves.

[Anteater]

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[jwb]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

American teenagers are about three times as likely to kill themselves as Mexican teenagers.

I can’t prove a causal relationship but I believe the inherently abusive nature of compulsory education is the top reason American kids off themselves.

In the US, it's compulsory for your 10 year old to go to school.

In Latin America, it's compulsory for your 10 year old to join MS13 or whatever other gang controls your neighborhood.

Talk about white privilege. Literally whining about living in a country that sends their kids to school.

[The Batlord]

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[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by jwb

In the US, it's compulsory for your 10 year old to go to school.

In Latin America, it's compulsory for your 10 year old to join MS13 or whatever other gang controls your neighborhood.

Talk about white privilege. Literally whining about living in a country that sends their kids to school.

Our education system left you drug addicted, homeless, and still inclined to defend it. This is a perfect example of how deeply brainwashed Americans are.

[WWWP]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Our education system left you drug addicted, homeless, and still inclined to defend it. This is a perfect example of how deeply brainwashed Americans are.

personal attacks will not be tolerated

this is the only warning i am giving

[jwb]

Originally Posted by WWWP

personal attacks will not be tolerated

this is the only warning i am giving

Please Don't. I can handle this.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Our education system left you drug addicted, homeless, and still inclined to defend it. This is a perfect example of how deeply brainwashed Americans are.

the school system left me homeless and drug addicted, huh?

Funny how you deduced that without knowing the first thing about what schools I went to, what my up bringing was like, etc. Probably the same kind of research you put into your thesis that American kids are killing themselves more than Mexicans cause they have to go to school.

Bottom line is I actually grew up in a poor, gang ridden neighborhood where they finally set up a bunch of magnet programs to help the youth yet so few of the neighborhood kids wanted to participate that they started having to bus kids in from the suburbs to fill the magnet programs. Kids in the hood were typically there for social reasons and to deal drugs and **** like that.

I was one of the many kids who were actually districted to this school who didn't care about the magnet programs. I skated my way through school, went on to work late end jobs and supplement my income by dealing drugs and engaging in other petty crime.

Eventually I decided to go back to college and for a while I made it work, but eventually I fell off and for a factory job and started using and drinking too excess, wherebyi finally spiralled out of control and wound up homeless.

None of it had to do with my school. I had plenty of opportunities I never ceased. And many more than I would have if I grew up a lower class kid in Mexico. I know people growing up who specifically fled that life.

[OccultHawk]

I learned they cause huge problems by forcing kids to keep bad company and nothing is taught.

They do tons of harm and almost nothing good. Plenty of otherwise emotionally adjusted kids come out of it utterly destroyed. I know that.

[jwb]

You're just willingly ignoring the positives. A lot of kids are taught quite a bit in school.

But let's just cut through the bull**** and ask what your alternative is?