Posts by Jason Campbell7

Henry Moore2 said:Oh, sure. And why stop there? Let's just have 14-year-old girls walking through high school hallways dressed like total trash. Real classy stuff right there.

Look, those are extreme outliers—maybe 0.001% of kids—and using them as an excuse to ban shorts or anything else is honestly ridiculous. Take Japan, for example. Even there, where teen sexuality is a massive social issue and practically a trend, uniforms don't stop anything. If anything, some guys find the uniform look way more appealing than just seeing skin. Thankfully, we're worlds away from that kind of thing here in the States (both literally and figuratively).
Uniforms, if you ask me, only make sense in boarding schools—the kind we don't really have here. You know, places where parents intentionally pay a premium to hand over their child's upbringing to an institution. If that institution runs on strict discipline and the parents are totally on board with that style of parenting (regardless of the potential downsides), then fine, a uniform fits. In those cases, it's mandatory and baked into the tuition, so parents don't even have to worry about food, discipline, clothing, or basically any other need except during school breaks. But doing it this way? It’s just pointless.

Henry Moore2 said:It’s the same thing that probably drove me crazy back then. We had way more freedom; you could basically show up in whatever. I remember people walking into school wearing low-cut tops, black thongs peeking out under white pants, or just super short skirts and stuff like that.

Look, I’ll take freedom over being stifled any day. Even if the people in charge turn out to be total trash—and let's face it, they always seem to suck regardless of who's running things—at least we can breathe.

Jose Mendoza5 said:Nowhere else in the country does the school day kick off this early. It’s honestly heartbreaking that my child is attending a school where even wearing shorts is against the rules, all while there isn't a single air conditioner in sight. They come home absolutely exhausted, looking like they’ve spent the entire day doing manual labor out in the sun. I am certainly not suggesting we coddle children, but surely some basic environmental standards for learning need to be met. If the heat is this intense, installing AC in the classrooms is a necessity. If that proves too costly, then perhaps delaying the start of the school year by a week or two would be more sensible.
Regarding classroom technology, it seems everything remains stagnant. It's just chalk and boards. Though, if I'm being honest, I personally feel that might actually be the most effective method—that direct, interactive engagement between student and teacher. However, if we want to attract high-quality educators who truly care about their vocation, we ought to compensate them with a decent salary.
One can only imagine what those people are enduring right now, stuck in uncooled classrooms while the thermometer hits 104 degrees.
Can such teaching truly be considered high quality? Does it even make sense at this point?
It feels like Primorac is just waiting for someone to suffer a heatstroke before realizing he’s overreached, much like his handling of the state standardized tests, which students managed to completely dismantle in a single day!

What kind of school has a garbage principal who won't let kids dress how they want? Back in the old days, we showed up to school however we felt, but now they're trying to apply these "modern" pedagogical trends fueled by some sort of hypocritical moralizing... it's gross.

Anonymous said:I agree that foreign language films should be dubbed, subtitled, or just plain translated.
Since there’s zero need to do that with American English and standard American, the logical conclusion is that they’re actually just one and the same language!

Linguistically? Sure. But politically? They aren't anything like how people view Dutch and Flemish—though over there, they haven't even bothered with subtitles yet. We really ought to work on that. Here’s the blueprint: establish a Belgian territory in the south of the Netherlands (think a Catholic minority clashing with a Lutheran majority), then manufacture a war that feels like a spontaneous explosion of ancient hatreds. Then, have the Dutch secretly sell oil to those hated Flemish folks throughout the entire conflict. Throw in a few storms and a couple hundred thousand Catholic refugees fleeing the Netherlands to head into Belgium—where, naturally, they get settled in the French-speaking south. Eventually, those folks lose their minds and start pushing for secession from the Flemish (basically, call it Mexico 2)...
And there you go. Plenty of material for new movies... and a perfect excuse for why we need subtitles... 🤣 🤣 🤣

Susan Walker68 said:That’s a solid suggestion. 🙂

Thanks for the support, 😘

Just one more thing to add: since the translation is in English, our kids end up learning about one of those legendary pieces of American literature,

but by listening to the original, they actually pick up an extra foreign language—something you won't find in any standard school curriculum or local language institute. 🤣

Ја бих их титловао на хрватски, али ћирилицом, па да младе генерације бесплатно науче једно ос писама својих предака које је школство занемарило... 😬 😬 😬

These examples just go to show that some parents really haven't earned the right to have kids in the first place.

The real issue is how society pushes this hypocritical, cookie-cutter ideal—you know, the whole white picket fence, suburban dream with the perfect spouse and kids and a golden retriever. Most people feel pressured to settle down and follow that exact script, leading straight to parenthood. It doesn't matter if they aren't actually ready when the time comes, or if they never quite figure it out. Nobody seems to care about the readiness part.
Then, inevitably, everything falls apart—the marriages, the parenting struggles, the constant drama with the kids—and we all sit around wondering why.

I remember this neighbor of mine back in rural Montana; even when she was just a teenager, whenever her mother tried to push her toward what a "proper daughter" should be doing, she’d just shut it down during their arguments by saying, "I didn't sign up for this."
Honestly, it’s the simplest way to say everything, and frankly, it’s the only response those kinds of parents deserve.