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2:23 PM · Jul 10, 2019Twitter Web App

Like, a group of boys was ganging up on me and saying really aggressive sexual things while I tried to paint and because I didn’t feel bad and told them to fuck off, it was considered even.

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There was another kid, a friend of mine, who made the perfect victim. Like me he'd try to defend himself, but he couldn't throw a punch for shit. Teachers poured a lot of energy into conversations about this poor fellow.

With me, they chose to concoct an implausible smear campaign against a 6 year old kid, where I was cast as this constantly angry brat who'd start fights over nothing. (As opposed to, e.g., being wrestled to the ground and fed dirty snow by six other kids before retaliating.)

My parents buying into this story and enforcing various punishments suggested by the teachers is a key reason why I had suppressed rage issues for two and a half decades. And a key motivator for making threads like this:

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There is something incredibly perverse about the way we have taken so much autonomy from our kids, and this is also part of it. We put them in day prison under authoritarians "for their own good," and now you'll even get sued for letting your kids run around unsupervised!

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I've since processed most if not all of this, and have fairly normal anger patterns now, but still I don't trust schools or teachers. Did the teachers do their jobs and deal with the bullying after I stopped sending bruised bullies home? Of course not.

The whole point of branding kids as "problematic" is to offload the responsibility they have for taking care of kids *who spend more time at school than with their parents*, back on the kids and their parents.

When parents "medicate" their kids for ADHD on their teachers' recommendation, I really want to slap them. Take responsibility for your kids! Better yet, avoid school if you have any choice at all (assuming your kids don't actually want to go).