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Schools are banning best friends to protect students' feelings
Business Insider ^ | 9.19.17 | Chris Weller

Posted on 09/20/2017 7:38:40 PM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl

Members of the royal family aren't often told what they can and can't do. But just a few days into his first year of school, 4-year-old Prince George already faces a mandate: No best friends allowed.

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: chat; leftismoncampus; psychology
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Um...what?
1 posted on 09/20/2017 7:38:40 PM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl
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Next they will be assigning best friends.


2 posted on 09/20/2017 7:40:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Oh, and no American Flag T-shirts on Cinqo de Mayo:

Yeah, it did go to the Supreme Court, who said, yeah, you can send kids home if they do it.


3 posted on 09/20/2017 7:47:42 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

No tether ball, dodge ball, either.

Some schools don’t have outdoors recess, either.

Oh, no chewing your pastry into the shape of a gun, either.

And no touching.


4 posted on 09/20/2017 7:48:36 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

More of the endless meddling by leftists to remold people as they see fit. Damn human history, genetics, or what path an individual student might want to follow of their own free will.


5 posted on 09/20/2017 7:48:55 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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Next they will be assigning best friends.

Eventually the OneWorld government will assign everyone a same-sex marital partner, and all children will be the turkey baster kind.

6 posted on 09/20/2017 7:51:29 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl
This is horrifying. I can't think of a better way to make sure that shy kids become even more withdrawn and develop full-blown social anxiety disorders.

And although anti-best-friend policies may help kids in the short-term, research suggests the strong connections found among best friends could be vital for mental health in a world where adolescents are lonelier than ever.

I'll bet not a single study has established that such policies are even helpful in the short-term. Preventing kids from having friends is the exact opposite of what they need. Who are these kids supposed to turn to when they just need someone to talk to and be themselves around? A huge group of people they don't know isn't going to cut it.

7 posted on 09/20/2017 7:54:31 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Communists must have equality in all things. Can’t get too close to anyone if the state should decide there is a problem, you know.


8 posted on 09/20/2017 7:55:00 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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They are far from finished attacking our culture from every angle.

Same-sex friendships are essential for the development of other-sex relationships at a slightly later time. This is why these people want them destroyed.

Anything that cements us together has to be destroyed so that THEY can then be the cement.


9 posted on 09/20/2017 8:01:51 PM PDT by firebrand
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Students are going to be ordered to have diverse groups of friends who believe what The State believes.


10 posted on 09/20/2017 8:02:38 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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My friends & I would tether ball for hours. What a blast that was!


11 posted on 09/20/2017 8:03:41 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: gaijin

Students are also being dangerously medicated.


12 posted on 09/20/2017 8:04:37 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

My daughter said, “Lord save our souls. The snowflakes have won.”


13 posted on 09/20/2017 8:12:42 PM PDT by beaversmom
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Paging Harrison Bergeron.....


14 posted on 09/20/2017 8:13:18 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl
You are here.


15 posted on 09/20/2017 8:16:02 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: generally; All

This is UK, unless the Clinton’s are the “Royal Family” of which it speaks.


16 posted on 09/20/2017 8:18:12 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

We will tell you what to think, when to think it and who you can think it with.
It’s for your own good!


17 posted on 09/20/2017 8:43:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: beaversmom

They’re daft as a brush.


18 posted on 09/20/2017 8:49:52 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Not much depth in intelligence and soul, for sure.


19 posted on 09/20/2017 9:07:45 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: gaijin

Is that a joke are did they really do that? When?


20 posted on 09/20/2017 9:40:24 PM PDT by easternsky
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