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"You are not my boss and you can't tell me what to do"
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 644711" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>I just shake my head.</p><p></p><p>OK, so I'm from Canada, land of a fairly liberal social safety net including publicly funded health care. We are given a rough time by our American friends and co-workers because we live in a "nanny state". </p><p></p><p><em>And I know of NO part of Canada where parents are expected to force their kids to be in school past the age of 16 or 17 (varies a little bit). Once they reach that age... they can quit, nothing we can do, and <strong>nothing expected of us either</strong></em>.</p><p></p><p>This is one of my pet peeves. Staying in school is actually deadly for some kids - not the bullying, not the drugs, just the whole atmosphere, the peer pressure, the irrelevant materials, the big-headed teachers with no heart (no, not all of them of course but enough to make it bad). The education industry is out of control.</p><p></p><p>(off soap box now)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 644711, member: 11791"] I just shake my head. OK, so I'm from Canada, land of a fairly liberal social safety net including publicly funded health care. We are given a rough time by our American friends and co-workers because we live in a "nanny state". [I]And I know of NO part of Canada where parents are expected to force their kids to be in school past the age of 16 or 17 (varies a little bit). Once they reach that age... they can quit, nothing we can do, and [B]nothing expected of us either[/B][/I]. This is one of my pet peeves. Staying in school is actually deadly for some kids - not the bullying, not the drugs, just the whole atmosphere, the peer pressure, the irrelevant materials, the big-headed teachers with no heart (no, not all of them of course but enough to make it bad). The education industry is out of control. (off soap box now) [/QUOTE]
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