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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (8 children)

"At least one parent at 20% of schools" is an incredibly strange way of saying ~0.04% of parents (assuming each school is an average of 500 pupils).

Children have a right to socialise safely, with proper tools to keep themselves safe, rather than forced to be secretive about even owning a device. This is from a group of middle class helicopter parents who refuse to parent and want to move their responsibility onto the state in a poorly thought out one size fits all model.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

If a kid wants to use a mobility scooter instead of learning how to walk should the parents let them?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If a child is making such a choice, you should ask yourself why. Disabled children exist and they might not articulate such a need in the same way as an adult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If a child is disabled, it isn't really a choice, is it?

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