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Originally Posted by opendoor
Ideally people would be able to realize when accepting minor risk has big upsides (in the case of allowing children to be independent) and when it does not, but sometimes nuance is lost on society.
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Agreed. There's a point at which anxiety becomes pathological. We can imagine the catastrophic downside to a 10 year old taking the bus alone (run over, abduction), but we have much more difficulty imagining - and society doesn't help us imagine - the downsides of lack of freedom and exposure to risk (dependency, brittleness, passivity).
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Related: Notley's Bill 1 has forced 16,000 kids in Calgary onto public transit and double those parents' transportation costs. This a consequence of a bill that Notley uses to brag about making things cheaper for parents.
http://www.calgarysun.com/2017/09/05...-school-begins |
I'm with the government on this. When did we start expecting the government to pick up the tab for shuttling kids all over the city to alternative schools? When I went to a different junior high than my designated school, my family had to pay for transit out of our own pocket. I don't recall anyone complaining. Nobody forced me to go to a different school.
Local school = subsidized transport.
Alternative school = user pay.
Seems fair to me.
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I think when we were kids, if we got lost on the bus or riding our bikes somewhere, we'd know how to ask somehow for directions. But we were used to talking to people, neighbors, grannies, other kids etc.. Kids today, they don't talk to anybody.
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That too. Our parents assumed we'd figure stuff out on our own, and if we didn't an adult would help. Now, kids are raised to never had any social contact with adults in public.