Even a bubble won't help Ben

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Post #129,181

by broomberg

12/5/03 6:56:55 PM

Even a bubble won't help Ben

But I wouldn't mind trying.

He's old enough to have passed the moment of not being responsible for the decision. Sara, on the other hand, still lives in the fantasy of childhood world.

If I error on any side of restrictions on kids in favor of safety, I don't mind. If it is in an area where I do NOT have control, that they MUST be in, then I want it as safe a possible.

All that talk about parental responsibility is worthless when your kids spend more hours away from you than with you. I've done the best I can by living in an area known for good schools and biting the bullet on taxes for them. But even these schools have a percentage of druggies that I'd like to see GONE.

Am I delving into Marlowe territory for such a stance? Maybe.

I'm willing to accept it.

Post #129,187

by Ashton

12/5/03 8:00:37 PM

Sympathies

As one with no dog in this fight, no need to next turn over an offspring to this 'thing' that substitutes for school just now - I'd be just another sanctimonious twit, if I pretended that the course is clear.

No doubt you see the trade-offs, maybe even as "short term"? - and later we can fix the ugly side. But you know how such plans go, too.

Afraid we'd be on opposite sides of the barricade re "All Search All the Time", as I recall how (a few, small) betrayals by Big people affected my experience of what 'trust' might mean, as a tad. And in the present Neoconman enviro - I don't think any even 'small' further loss of individual rights is.. too small to fight against.

Ashton

Catholic school to test ALL kids for drugs - (lincoln) - (24) - Dec. 4, 2003, 09:40:44 PM EST

I'd like to see it mandatory for all schools - (broomberg) - (19) - Dec. 4, 2003, 10:50:14 PM EST

Let's make it mandatory in order to get a license - (Silverlock) - (8) - Dec. 4, 2003, 11:27:31 PM EST

Hmm...I detect.. - (bepatient) - (7) - Dec. 5, 2003, 10:26:53 AM EST

Do you have privacy at a school? - (Simon_Jester) - (6) - Dec. 5, 2003, 12:02:18 PM EST

Correct, do you have privacy at work? - (orion) - Dec. 5, 2003, 12:13:13 PM EST

Just because.. - (bepatient) - (4) - Dec. 5, 2003, 01:10:23 PM EST

Property rights - (jake123) - (3) - Dec. 5, 2003, 01:12:32 PM EST

They are foundational. - (bepatient) - (2) - Dec. 5, 2003, 01:15:38 PM EST

One place where your (and ours, for that matter) legal - (jake123) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2003, 01:26:10 PM EST

Amen to that. -NT - (bepatient) - Dec. 5, 2003, 01:34:52 PM EST

Crock o Spit - (boxley) - (9) - Dec. 5, 2003, 08:56:12 AM EST

Hehe - (broomberg) - (7) - Dec. 5, 2003, 10:40:54 AM EST

Rationalize what it Really Is, all you want - - (Ashton) - (6) - Dec. 5, 2003, 05:54:03 PM EST

Even a bubble won't help Ben - (broomberg) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2003, 06:56:55 PM EST

Sympathies - (Ashton) - Dec. 5, 2003, 08:00:37 PM EST

I only had a dollar to live on till next sunday - (boxley) - (3) - Dec. 5, 2003, 10:07:17 PM EST

Huh? - (broomberg) - (2) - Dec. 5, 2003, 10:36:31 PM EST

Snowblind, by Steppenwolf - (jake123) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2003, 11:41:35 PM EST

Acutally Hoyt Axton song - (deSitter) - Dec. 6, 2003, 08:36:05 AM EST

Being drug free - (orion) - Dec. 5, 2003, 12:17:14 PM EST

So much for trust - (orion) - (1) - Dec. 4, 2003, 11:14:03 PM EST

One nit - (lincoln) - Dec. 5, 2003, 10:38:25 PM EST

Employers now testing all new employees - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Dec. 5, 2003, 01:49:14 PM EST

Still waiting.. for Kurt V. to tell us What We Are, now. -NT - (Ashton) - Dec. 5, 2003, 08:01:56 PM EST

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