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Category: Blogging • Lovely Sciblings
Posted on: July 16, 2009 9:09 PM, by Isis the Scientist
Statement of Fact: Mark Chu-Carroll is a brilliant guy and I have a lot of respect for his opinion.
Another Statement of Fact: This post he's written about why he is not attending his high school reunion is both brilliant and heartbreaking. It makes me want to give him a hug.
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I agree with you completely on this one. And the piece is entirely different from what I expected on seeing the title. Yeah, brilliant and heartbreaking...
Posted by: sbh | July 17, 2009 9:22 AM
Damn.
I agree that the whole post is brilliantly written in "blogcontext."
But if this is really true and he's really serious about this specifically, then:
1) I'm afraid.
2) I can't condone this line of reasoning and action, as a parent myself.
3) I hope he's arming his kid with the mental faculties for dealing with these type of situations and not just the physical ones.
4) I am SO glad a) I am a girl and b) my high school was not like this (as far as I know)
Posted by: Callinectes | July 17, 2009 2:04 PM
I had no idea things like this really happened until I got to college. My parents, great wise people, determined early that I was just not suited to any of the local public schools and sent me to a girl's school, even if it did add an hour to our daily commutes. After that school I went to a school where we refered to ourselves as "freaks". We went to school because we were into learning, being uber-nerds/geeks.
While neither school was perfect (middle-school girls are *evil*!) there was *never* any suggestion of physical violence. I had thought this was a girl thing, but was later informed that girls fight even meaner than boys.
So why do people always say nasty things about single-sex uniformed schools? Because it ends up worse for the boys? I wish there were some way to fix schools, but sometimes I think that would require fixing children to not be, you know, without fully developed brains. You have to learn, but I wish the learning process wasn't so hard on some people.
(I'm planning on going to my 10th, but I think I could be at least civil to all those people, and there are people I'd like to see.)
Posted by: JustaTech | July 17, 2009 5:25 PM