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16 Jan 2018, 4:02 pm

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In an ironic twist my daughter's best (and only) friend was separated because they thought both girls would benefit from mixing with other (NT) children.

Years later and both girls are friendless...
This is so sad :( Are they not able to meet up and be friends now?

Both girls have graduated from primary school last year and are going their separate ways. Hoping my daughter can make new friends in high school



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16 Jan 2018, 4:10 pm

And how are they going to enforce this exactly? Seems rather authoritarian, like one of those sci-fi stories with one of those 'perfect' societies with a dark side.


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16 Jan 2018, 4:12 pm

They put GPS trackers on the kid's fitbits which sends an alert to teachers if there is a proximity alert > 10 min duration (getting too friendly)



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16 Jan 2018, 4:13 pm

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Oh come on. SJW thought policing at its finest(sarcasm)
Yep, just when I thought they couldn't possibly surprise me anymore, they still manage to yet again.

How do they expect to be taken seriously? This along with so many other ideas of theirs, should be an April's fool joke.


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16 Jan 2018, 4:23 pm

I guess it's really not as hard to enforce as it may appear

Around 7-8 yrs of age kids start forming "best friends" so the teacher just has to observe the cliques and disband them
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16 Jan 2018, 6:13 pm

cyberdad wrote:
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In an ironic twist my daughter's best (and only) friend was separated because they thought both girls would benefit from mixing with other (NT) children.

Years later and both girls are friendless...
This is so sad :( Are they not able to meet up and be friends now?

Both girls have graduated from primary school last year and are going their separate ways. Hoping my daughter can make new friends in high school
Stupid school :( Best of luck to her.


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16 Jan 2018, 8:28 pm

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Oh come on. SJW thought policing at its finest(sarcasm)
Yep, just when I thought they couldn't possibly surprise me anymore, they still manage to yet again.

How do they expect to be taken seriously? This along with so many other ideas of theirs, should be an April's fool joke.

They shouldn't be, but they are, disgustingly often.



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16 Jan 2018, 9:13 pm

:roll: :roll:
This is stupid
How would they even enforce something like that?


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16 Jan 2018, 9:23 pm

It's a bunch of hogwash, if you ask me.

It makes zero sense. I don't see anything good coming out of this.

Extremely fascistic. And extremely dystopian.



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16 Jan 2018, 10:44 pm

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This is stupid
How would they even enforce something like that?

You obviously didn't read the GPS tracker theory



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17 Jan 2018, 1:52 am

Lots of luck with that. Kids, like anyone else, are going to be friends regardless of who says no.


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18 Jan 2018, 12:15 am

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I think political correctness has gone way too far.


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19 Jan 2018, 8:33 pm

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More social engineering from the lefty brigade.
You can't force kids to be friends they usually gravitate to whoever they click with and that person ends up being a friend for the rest of their life.



That's true as, I don't align myself with everyone nor does everyone come running to me to become my friend.


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19 Jan 2018, 8:51 pm

cyberdad wrote:
They put GPS trackers on the kid's fitbits which sends an alert to teachers if there is a proximity alert > 10 min duration (getting too friendly)


That. Or put one of those little "animal cams" that they put on wild animals for nature shows on the kid's body. And then observe the kids on TV consoles to monitor if they spend more than X percent of their time with certain individuals.



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19 Jan 2018, 8:58 pm

This is all beyond crazy!



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19 Jan 2018, 10:07 pm

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That. Or put one of those little "animal cams" that they put on wild animals for nature shows on the kid's body. And then observe the kids on TV consoles to monitor if they spend more than X percent of their time with certain individuals.

Do you mean like miniature GoPros? playgrounds of the future will have robotic drones monitoring the kiddies