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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has been going on for a while.  An 8th grader made a MySpace page for my mom ( his teacher) about 15 years ago and said all sorts of horrible things about her.  Kid wasn’t punished but had to take down the page.  You all need to catch up.[/quote]

Which, of course, caused your mom such permanent damage that forced her to live in van down by the river.[/quote]

DP. Like I said a few pages ago, you can almost always see where the kids get it. The kids who do stuff like this very rarely have good parents.[/quote]

It's a lot more nuance than that. Parents and children are operating under an environment where everyone is under assault from wealth and powerful tech companies world wide. It's akin to letting companies pour megatons of heroin into the aquifers and lakes and pipes, and then blaming parents for not properly filtering the water their kids come in contact with. [/quote]

I’m a teacher and a parent. I respect your point, but this environment doesn’t excuse parents from parenting. I’ve been carefully teaching my own children and my students how to navigate these influences.

I’m afraid that, for many, the nuance you address is out of sight. Some parents simply don’t care what their kids are doing or what their kids are exposed to. I’ve met these parents at conferences. They don’t even know the teenager they birthed, and it’s sad. [/quote]

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