• NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What? It’s only two years off finishing senior school and going off to college/sixth form.

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      1 year ago

      This is about the U.S. based on the article and you are talking about how school works in a completely different country. In the U.S., middle school is a step between elementary and high school for kids age 12-14 who are too mature for elementary school but not mature enough to be treated with real responsibility yet.

      Expecting a child, and they are children, to go out and earn a living at 14 is ridiculous. Especially when it will be a horrible entry-level low-skill miserable job that will just make them unhappy.

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        1 year ago

        Bollox, I was working from about 13 to put some dough in my pocket as my parents weren’t exactly rich. Didn’t do me any harm.

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          I was abandoned by my parents, didn’t do me any harm. Guess child abandonment should be legal according to your logic.

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              1 year ago

              No child abandonment is illegal. Surrendering your child is legal if done a certain amount of time after birth. Thanks for admitting you know nothing about these laws though.