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It's part of the reason they don't want phones in schools.
All they have to do is enforce harassment. It's like trying to put a toy in timeout because your kid misused it. The kid learns nothing and moves on to the next toy. Simply put them into detention. The parents will fix that shit quick.
The parents will fix that shit quick.
They won't.
Can confirm. My mom was an elementary school teacher for 20 years. She maintains to this day that the absolute worst part of the job was dealing with the parents.
Yes. I’m sorry to say so many parents can’t comprehend that their children are acting horribly. The teachers/administrators/other students must be lying!
Your kid has detention. that means someone has to pick their ass up :)
The dickhead kids I went to school with had detention all the time. Didn't change a thing.
And they will wonder why nobody will treat them like an adult when they are physically old enough. At least that's how it should be, IMO. My vote is to emasculate their toxic masculinity and treat them like the little boys they are.
If nothing else, they either be treated like little kids the rest of their life or maybe learn about a questionable kink they never knew they had if they don't shape up.
How many middle and high school kids are getting Meta's pervert glasses as gifts?! How are people affording these?
Like there is nothing else you'd want before some shitty novelty?
I live in a nice area. The number of families with absurd amounts of money is staggering. I have a good job and am well paid.
These fuckers put me to shame. Trips to Europe for a weekend. They only go skiing in Colorado, never anywhere else. Expensive hotels, $80k cars for themselves and the kids.
I have zero clue what any of them do. Maybe a handful appear to be marginally intelligent. Did the inherit it? Play the stock lottery?
All I know is that a pair of pervert glasses are fucking NOTHING for these people. A family I know buys the best airpods (I don't know, not an apple person) in bulk because the kids lose them so often. They hand them out like Halloween candy.
Never underestimate the vast number of people with more money than sense.
I am so deeply frustrated that despite busting my ass for years in what is otherwise a successful career that these people could buy and sell me with quarter of one dividend check.
Yup. I also live in a nice area.
I worked at a small business for 6 years. We shipped alcohol across the entire country, had major holiday orders even for things like NBC, the today show, and lion's gate did their holiday gifts through us.
Suffice to we made fuckin bank, and were comprised of 12 employees when I started. 4 cashiers, 4 management who were also capable and willing to fill in and help lower level laborers, and we had of course, the 4 lower level laborers, myself included initially.
In 2023 I was promoted to shipping manager and salaried, pay was good and and the year end bonus from the owner was decent.
In 2023 we were already down to 8 employees. Order volume was up over 3 years, so less people were fulfilling more work. I was fresh off my promotion so I was pretty blind for a bit.
Cut to this year and we had 5 employees. Order volume was slightly higher than it was in 2023. 5 people were now doing more work than 12 were just 6 years prior.
To give some perspective: As shipping manager, one holiday order from a local customer, would be for 100 individual bottles of wine shipped with gift notes inside each once and each bottle gift wrapped.
We had around 15 of these holiday orders and 13 of them came in after December 5. We brought in 1 person for seasonal help.
So just counting the holiday orders, excluding our in store and base online orders that include an email mailing list of 12,000 customers , put us even with conservative estimates at 1,500 individual bottles of alcohol that needed to be brought into the store, gift wrapped, individual cards made, and shipped in time for Christmas.
6 people was not enough. My mental health was destroyed and I had major depressive disorder until I finally quit this year.
My boss would keep cutting people, bitching about money, pushing ridiculous sales when we had no staffing, and all the while he travels to Europe with his family multiple times a year, has a 7 bedroom home, drives a Mercedes, and not one mother fucking time gave up any of it.
Obviously the existence of these pedo glasses is problematic to say the least, but aren't they also super expensive? How the hell are kids able to afford these?
In Australian dollarydoos they start from $469. What teenager is spending $469 on anything?
Same way I spent $350 on a new iPod in high school back in the 2000s. Worked a part time job after school and on weekends.
No rent or bills makes it easy.
well parents in the states already gift thier young teens expensive iphones/samsung phones as a way to communicate with them. meta glasses isnt a stretch. milleneals had the benefit of graduating hs before smartphones became common.
They have parents who consume their faux affection via monetary transactions.
Couple of weeks of delivering pizza or Uber Eats after school and a teen can afford them.
Uh, why the fuck would such a device ever be allowed on school property?
Because boys are using them to harass girls, and thats like 90% of what schools are for nowadays
because educators aren't paid enough to figure out which covert spying devices exist
These devices are expensive.
Teenage girls - If you spot them... Grab them and smash them.
Laying the ground for republicans banning eyeglasses entirely - because eyeglasses show intent to learn, which is dangerous...
Nah republicans love anything that allows the exploitation of women or other marginalized groups
A reminder to everyone blaming parents: these children are growing up in a world where privacy doesn't exist, so how could they value it? Corporations are targeting them and influencing their opinions and changing norms with resources a parent couldn't even dream of. Blaming parents is an individualistic solution to a systemic problem. We're not going to suddenly get better parents anyway, sorry.
I mean, most of your early value comes from your parents (or closest adult influence), and presumably the parents needed to buy the very expensive device.
So yeah they can be blamed.