If going to a wedding is such a burden for someone, then they should decline.

I am from Boston and I only know one person who has ever had this. She called it a “Jack and Jill”. It is NOT common on the east coast, and it felt incredibly tacky. One of the bridesmaids also berated my husband into buying a shit ton of raffle tickets because “he is a doctor”, when actually he was a medical student…

It’s never about the “most attractive offer”. :(

“the earlier young adults learn to take resposibility for their actions and their behaviur”

Mostly only for poor black kids...

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It seemed so disproportionate. I’m glad actual teachers feel the same.

The other thing is if you have a kid in this environment where you micromanage every aspect of their life, what happens when they graduate high school and either go to college or get a job? There is no one making sure that they go to class or do their work. I feel like you need to set the foundation when they are…

Straight up detention.

Ugh. This is awful. I’m so sorry.

That is how it read to me. It felt very counterintuitive because the attrition rate at a lot of these schools must be very high. I think back to Michael Brown’s mom and one of the things that she said right after he was murdered was that she had to work to hard to get her black son to graduate from high school. I…

Isn’t this usually how it goes though? No one in my generation is named Debbie bc it’s everyone’s mom, but my kids will prob be like “Deborah is a beautiful name and it was my grandma’s name. I loved her so much!” Wash and repeat.

I... what in the hell? This thread is ridiculous.

Agreed. I also went to a prep school with a dress code. Often we were told not to wear something again. Multiple reprimands got a (weekday) after school detention. More significant offenses (not dress code) got Saturday detention.

Nice choice.

I’m in Chicago and one of my teacher friends was telling me about some of the rules that some of the schools have in place. Apparently, at one of the schools on the southside if the kid does not write the date on their homework, they get detention. Could not wrap my mind around that one. It’s supposed to teach them to…

I figured this as well.

I figured it was not viral, and was inflammation from the pesticides.