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My dude it’s typically called service learning and your pessimistic and overly pedantic take on it isn’t great.
The notion of these activities is to get kids out in the world to see how it works and interact with its systems AND possibly have them help out and learn about things.
When I was in school I did my service learning with a nature conservancy near me, it was fun and was treated like a school assignment.
They’re not slaves and your comparison is wild for anyone living in any form of servitude.
I said this before, and I’ll say it again: if you can’t figure out a way to teach your children, the value of public service by any other means then child slavery, then you’re a shitty teacher and a shitty parent.
There’s a plethora of other ways to teach these lessons that don’t include child slavery.
You’re alone on this hill and I hope whatever traumas of your past have you this worked up don’t keep clawing you down.
This is a pretty uninformed and awful take my dude, enjoy your little cesspool.
Personal attack instead of a rational argument. Classy.
Take solace in knowing everyone else is wrong.
Not everyone. Just you and a small handful of terrible people who really like child slavery.
Can’t wait to wake my son up and ~~make him do his chores~~ put him to a ‘slavin