In the summer of 2009, an outdoor music festival suddenly became a psychology experiment.
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Month: December 2018
When People Stop Caring About Youth Rights
I think children face legal discrimination that is more severe and unfair than what women faced in the 1800’s.
As you can imagine, I rarely find anyone who agrees with me, but it wasn’t always that way. When I was a teenager and aired that idea among my classmates, I got genuine support.
Teachers Are Underworked and Overpaid
Teachers love whining. Everyone knows it, but no one likes to say it because they’ll get whined at if a teacher happens to be listening. Most teachers can’t go a day without making some sarcastic remark about how difficult and unfair their job is.
A Lesson In Disappointment
Jet didn’t have to ask his parents’ permission, for his father lived many miles away, and his mother was driving a bus downtown. Victor never asked anyone’s permission, for his parents were dead, and his foster home enforced few rules. When Ava asked her mother whether she could go, the question was relayed to her father, who glanced only briefly from his pile of papers. “It sounds like a good lesson in disappointment,” he said.