| ▲ | koakuma-chan 5 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> We say some stupid things as kids, because they're just words and we're missing greater context at that age. I think the problem is that people send kids to public schools and just hope for the best. Imagine you have a brand new child, and you send it to school, and the child ends up saying something offensive, is this the child's fault? I think not. The child was trained on harmful data, it's not surprised the child exhibited undesirable behaviours. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jacquesm 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My kid went to public school in Canada. He learned English pretty quickly and one day got suspended from school for a week. When I asked what had happened he said the other kids asked him to pronounce f.u.c.k. and then, after he complied ran to the teacher to say that he'd used a 'bad word'. So, the principal, one Roman Peredun calls me up and says that my son used a bad word. I asked him what word. He wouldn't say it. So I asked how am I supposed to know how 'bad' my son is if you can't even repeat the word. He then spelled the word. I said, oh, 'fuck'. Yes, that's not in dutch however so he must have picked it up in your school. Peredun hung up and I sent my kid back to school the next day. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | giantg2 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I can confirm this. Sent a 5yo to public school and they came home with the new saying "I don't give a fuck!". Not what I want a 5yo to learn. We have massive overreactions by the schools for comments like in the article, but they're culpable in this sort of behavior by creating a largely undisciplined environment for basic in-person behavior. Uncontrolled classrooms and busses lead to all sorts of problems because nobody gets punished on the low end. My kid got in trouble for something and the punishment was to play alone at recess. Really? I told the school I think they should have been in detention at recess, possibly for a couple days. Of course they got punished at home too, which I suppose doesn't happen in some households. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | mr90210 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> The child was trained on harmful data, it's not surprised the child exhibited undesirable behaviours. Your comment reduces children to entities that will behave as expected provided they get fed “good” data. Humans are not LLMs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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