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RE: Shit like this makes me angry.
April 28, 2011 at 5:45 pm
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2011 at 5:45 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
and now a video!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC0XCor6I...ture=feedu
It's actually worse than I thought it was.
My brain hurts.
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RE: Shit like this makes me angry.
April 28, 2011 at 5:49 pm
When I was in 6th grade my parents registered me as living elsewhere so I didn't have to go to the hellhole 6th grade center that I was supposed to. It was in the same city but across town & technically I did go to & from the registered address before & after school, but didn't live in the same district. Glad my parents did it, but now I wonder if that would have been considered conspiracy & fraud as well?
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RE: Shit like this makes me angry.
April 28, 2011 at 5:54 pm
I am confused... since when is public school not compulsory in america for all children? 0.o
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RE: Shit like this makes me angry.
April 28, 2011 at 8:10 pm
(April 28, 2011 at 5:54 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: I am confused... since when is public school not compulsory in america for all children? 0.o
It is as far as I know. She just wanted her child to go to a public school in a better funded community. Cases like hers speak volumes about how unequal our public schools are.
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RE: Shit like this makes me angry.
April 30, 2011 at 5:17 am
(April 28, 2011 at 5:54 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: I am confused... since when is public school not compulsory in america for all children? 0.o
In england the term 'public school' actually means private school.
Hence eton, oxford, cambridge etc are all public schools.
what you would term public schools are called comprehensives over here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent...d_Kingdom)
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