Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone

Although I'm not there 100%, I agree with it more than 50%...

The last sentence I agree with 400%...

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I voted "unsure"..sometimes we do overprotect our children but so much depends on the area we live in. We live in the country,my kids roamed country roads and forests at a very young age.Crime does exist out here but it's a fraction of the rate in the big cities.

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I prefer to think of it as more of control of the thinking process of our young.

I'm 62 and when I went to school we had nothing in classes like they do today.
Darn near everyone who finishes high school should be more equiped and much smarter than me. Yet of the ones who don't drop out many can't even keep a check book balanced. And I have 5 total. That would create a brain shortage in them.
Yet the truth is about 45 to 55% drop out when they reach the age set where they can choose to do so. Just think about that one thing. Where is it a right to be stupid in America. How and why is it a right of a 16+ year old to say I quit school? Who gains in the long run? (Please keep in mind the whole picture) And study after study shows ones mind isn't well set till about 24. So why at 16+ can a person decide to waste their life?
No child left behind my ash!!!

The large picture covers allowing more high tech trained people in our country being decide now, crime and drugs along with gangs. Because a drop out want to belong to something! Welfare and S/S fraud and ID theft. I can go on if you like but I leave room for others to say the truth.

Depends. I worked at Harvard for a short while doing menial tasks... many students didn't know how to do basic banking... but were absolute geniuses in anything school related... Being smart and having common sense are two VERY different things.

I think I have to call BS on this unless you have some stats to back it up. Even in the inner cities this seems like a VERY high number.

The better question is, where is it a right to be highly educated? We have the right to "Pursuit of Happiness"... ignorance is bliss

I am pretty sure they cannot just drop out at 16. Either they have to be emancipated, then drop out, or have guardians ok.

To me this just shows that education is wasted on youth. How many "uneducated" people wish they could have gone back to school full time at 24 or 25... I do... but at 17-18 school was the last thing on my mind

I actually am having a little trouble follwing this last part.

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We underprotect our kids as far as I'm concerned.

Your problem is that you never understood the point in the first place. And your very ignorant of the qoutes you take! This was in grade and then junior high school. thanks college boy you have added a lot of nothing because you spoke down not seeing what was being related..
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As far as the poll question is concerned I would have to say no.Look at the push to pass Jessica's law or some form of it.If society did over protect our children we wouldn't be trying to get these laws passed because there would be no need to get them pushed.

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Maybe it's parent's responsibility to protect their own children. You want to keep your children safe, you better keep an eye on them, because laws only stop predators after they have done something. Your kid might be the first.

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Of course its a parents responsibility to protect their own children.However some of the child predators are resourceful.These people have political groups,how-to websites and even websites that appear to be children's websites to try to convince children that there is nothing wrong with adult and child sexual relations.


They are even encouraging each other to join teaching professions,most likely to brainwash tolerance and acceptance of pedophiles.

Warriors For Innocence-Hunting pedophiles on the web
They have groups.

Pro-pedophile activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They even have political groups


BBC NEWS | Europe | Dutch will allow paedophile group
They have symbols


They have internet radio,pro-pedophile propaganda booklets to distribute to children and charities to send children to camps so pedophiles can visit them.



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/te...gy/21pedo.html
They also have tactics







So your saying if we only punished murderers with a slap on the wrist then the murder rate wouldn't skyrocket? A lot of times the punishments act as a deterrent.People break the law because they think they won't get caught and or they are not worried about the consequences.

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"There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”—Theodore Roosevelt