Brendan
Guerilla Urbanist
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2007
- Messages
- 911
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- ENFJ
Deviated from: Pelosi calls for birth control to stimulate the conomy (eugenics?)
What do you feel are the origins of the aforementioned apathy?
But you opened the door.[...]I'm am for birth control, mostly because I think people are stupid and can't control their impulses long enough to think about the consequences, but is it really going to make that much of a difference...? now, this is where quite a few of you are going to get upset... Given the various "low income" schools I'm acquainted with, I do not think that adding a child to the picture would end the educational aspirations for most of those teenagers.. because most of them could care less about school in the first place. Sure, a child would not help, but to blame a pregnancy for destroying their futures... please. When the average in an algebra class is 30% because students are turning in their tests blank, not doing their homework, showing up to class two days a week, giving the teacher false phone numbers in the hopes that their parents can't be reached (when they are reached, it's not like much of a difference is made, anyway).. saying things in class like "I don't need math or school, I can just sell drugs"... the problem lies with those kids and the values and self discipline they lack (let's not deviate into a debate over the origins of that apathy)[...].
What do you feel are the origins of the aforementioned apathy?