• NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Anytime “Killing in the Name” comes up, I have to tell the story of the time I was bringing my oldest to his second week of kindergarten and he requested this song, which was his favorite at the time.

    I realized I may have created a problem for his teachers when he started shouting along with Zack “FUCK YOU, I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!” We had have a little talk about not using adult words at school and how his kindergarten teacher really wasn’t the problem with the system.

    His second grade teacher, though… My son’s anti-authoritarian steak streak served him well, there.

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      7 months ago

      When I was in grade 2 my bullies would always make noise in class and our teacher forced the whole class to write lines because of it. I felt this was a deep injustice on two fronts and decided to resist, refusing to write anything.

      This kicked off a series of events that lead to me being brought in front of school board officials who made me sign a document stating I wouldn’t cause any more problems for the school. I merrily signed it and then once again refused to accept punishment for something I didn’t do, and they tried to kick me out.

      For some reason the school board was surprised to learn that 8 year olds cannot form a legal contract.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      My kids too, except it was Lonely Island’s “Threw it on the ground”.

      It was one of the rare occasions I broke my “Don’t laugh when they do bad things” and it encouraged my child to do it as much as possible.