Message from @tereško
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It's like smoking. If mom and dad smoke, odds are the kid will smoke too. If mom and dad are non-smokers, but the kid's friends all have parents who smoke, then that kid's probably still gonna become a smoker.
So, if you rape a child after 10 it won't affect them?
You can still fuck them up, but the point is damage can't be fixed.
Not entirely.
I really think you’re putting too much faith in our ability to educate people.
It’s much more scattergun than that.
Personalities don’t change much, sure, but ambitions do.
Beyond “this kid should probably go into *some kind* of trade.” And “This kid has the brains to go into *some kind* of stem field.” I doubt that tracking them towards a specific career has much point.
Once you fuck up a kid, it's hard to bring them back from that.
The younger they are, the easier it is to fuck them up. When they're older, they're a little more resilient. Still breakable, still vulnerable, but nowhere near as much.
A kid who grows up with strong ethics and a passion for knowledge, isn't going to just change his mind at the drop of a hat, because his mom started using meth when he entered the 6th grade.
A kindergartner might.
6th grade is still young.
A kid's mind is like concrete.
While young, super malleable. As they age, it becomes harder and harder to change them.
Eventually you can't change them without breaking them.
Yeah, but the hardening gets done as they mature physically. That doesn’t finish for a few more years.
Still super risky, trying to change a kid at that age, and it has a low success rate.
Not as low as doing it at the high school level, but I wouldn't hold my breath on the kid turning their life around.
You're better off being super-mom/super-dad until the kid's old enough for school, then send them off to the most exclusive/exclusionary place you can find, and keep them in those kinds of places until they're ready for college. By that point they're already in a different world, and pretty much destined to end up on top.
Public school wouldn't be so bad if all the parents were good, but let's not kid ourselves. Most parents are the sort of person who should've never had kids to begin with. They don't read to their kids every night. They don't get that kids are basically little people, who lack any of the social programming that adults have been engrained with, and that you need to understand that you're starting from scratch. The kid's also going to mimick fucking everything you do, so don't even think about letting that kid see you smoke.
From an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense that kids would basically become their parents, modeling their personalities and value systems on whatever the fuck mom and dad do. Historically, that's worked for us.
When you're a crackhead on welfare, the last thing society needs is a kid emulating that bullshit.
@tereško - If you truly care about the lower classes, then here's an idea:
Mandatory parenting classes, so that fewer people fuck up their kids.
"lower classes" ... sigh
Sheltering a kid like that just fucks them even more for when they actually enter adult life
Just beat kids tbh
would it come from ... emm ... dunno, "liberal arts" professors in universities?
Jack was beaten as a child, that's why he's gay
@tereško - I was one of those "lower class" students. Did well academically, because my mother gave a shit and emphasized education. Still ended up with a fuckload of problems, not entirely her fault, but in part due to the school I was in.
He was beaten by his sister
Wait
His sister is younger, that wouldn't make sense
Lmao
>"lower classes"... Sigh
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In my experience, peer effects vastly outweigh class size when it comes to academic performance. Teacher quality is also a huge fucking deal.
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Imagine being such a fucking prissy cunt
Do It
>middle and upper class
Dude, I'm fucking poor. I'm around poor people all the time. I know what they're like. I also know what the middle and upper class are like. The cultures are not the same. At all.
>then ***working*** class because muh feelz