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Originally Posted by Thor
I couldn't disagree more.
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You couldn't disagree more that he should be fired, or that he showed a lack of judgement? Or both? You're okay with the writing of suicide notes as grade school assignments?
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Originally Posted by Thor
French kids are not coddled like American kids, so a 14 yr old can handle a mature assignment, where as if this happened in the US it would be followed by mass outrage, lawsuits and lots of faux outrage.
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Don't mistake "kids are not coddled" with "all mature topics are fine at all age groups." Just because Europeans may be exposed to more "mature" topics than other children at similar ages, it doesn't necessarily mean they should be exposed to all mature topics at any arbitrarily chosen age. And I don't know what to make of "if this happened in the US." It doesn't seem this "outrage" would differ much between France and the States, considering this assignment was given
in France, and is causing outrage
in France.
Personally, when a child is just forming a personal social image of themselves, and at an age when most mental illnesses begin to manifest themselves, I'd rather they not be made to write their own suicide notes. What happened to a list of things you don't like about yourself, and a list of things you do? Chances are these kids are going to be depressed enough when they're older (the suicide rate in "mature" France is 40% higher than it is in the United States), what's the hurry to make them dwell on their own self-inflicted deaths now?