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In a community I'm in here on LJ, some poor innocent touched a subject that I just feel too strongly about.  A mother was asking advice for a child she had pulled from school and was going to homeschool.  She had several reasons, but one of the main one was all the bullying this child was the target of.   Several people told this mother that the child really needed to go back, because bullying happened everywhere, and continued into adulthood and the child in question just need to learn to take it or stand up to it.  That pulling a child out of school "just because kids are mean makes no sense"  Next thing I know, I'm ranting:

But since it is how I feel, I thought I should also have a record of it here, so maybe i won't have to inflict it again.
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Random Rant of the day

I'm not quite sure what's going on with this generation and the cell phone thing, but it's like they're afraid to be left alone with their own thoughts for even the length of a bus ride, or a car ride, or the walk from the engineering building to the math building, for crying out loud. Or my (sarcasm here)absolute favorite -- the length of time it takes to pee in a public toilet stall!!

An they have the ring tones up so loud even I can hear them, across a noisy restaurant.  And they all SHOUT private stuff into them.  I am frequently horrified at the things I am forced to listen to in the checkout.

Okay, now it's out of my system, maybe i won't have to say it to some young person who will roll his or her eyes at the backwards little old lady, always going on about "in my day..."

Because, generally, I love the whole idea of cell phones and their convenience.  I feel really excited to have lived from a time where not everyone I knew even had a phone in their house, to where everyone has a phone in their pocket. 

It's the whole lack of privacy and solitude I regret.

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