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I grew up in the military, and would certainly call that a "privileged" way of life. For the children, anyway.
Crime was very uncommon, since there was a base guard station and no one off base could get on. We had decent housing, programs that involved the parents socially, a community where everyone belonged.
And now, I have USAA insurance. ;D
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Originally Posted by Absolom
It's as if the experiences of military kids are varied, and shouldn't be lumped in together under the banner, "privileged."
Right? My sister's husband is military. While stationed in El Paso, the kids went to an elementary school surrounded by a 6' chain link fence topped with razor wire, and her autistic son came home with fingerprint bruises on his upper arms from being grabbed by a teacher. When her husband was sent to South Korea, the military wouldn't pay for families to relocate to that country, so she was a single-mother for two years and her husband wasn't present for the birth of one of their children. Hmmm... such priviledge.
I grew up in the military, and would certainly call that a "privileged" way of life. For the children, anyway.
Crime was very uncommon, since there was a base guard station and no one off base could get on. We had decent housing, programs that involved the parents socially, a community where everyone belonged.
And now, I have USAA insurance. ;D
Clara, wasn’t that about 50-60 years ago or so? FTR, I’m a little bit younger than you but crime was very uncommon in my area as well and we were not military, nor we’re we wealthy.
Woke ruins everything. It never makes anything better.
But that is agenda.
Make up some sh*t then the wokesters will announce that they have 'uncovered' more inequity or whatever the word-salad term is for the day: here in this thread "privilege".
Wokesters will gnash their teeth and flail their hands upwards in feigned outrage at this newly uncovered social injustice - then like termites destroy the structure they themselves live in.
Right? My sister's husband is military. While stationed in El Paso, the kids went to an elementary school surrounded by a 6' chain link fence topped with razor wire, and her autistic son came home with fingerprint bruises on his upper arms from being grabbed by a teacher. When her husband was sent to South Korea, the military wouldn't pay for families to relocate to that country, so she was a single-mother for two years and her husband wasn't present for the birth of one of their children. Hmmm... such priviledge.
I was deployed overseas for the birth of all of my children.
Right? My sister's husband is military. While stationed in El Paso, the kids went to an elementary school surrounded by a 6' chain link fence topped with razor wire, and her autistic son came home with fingerprint bruises on his upper arms from being grabbed by a teacher. When her husband was sent to South Korea, the military wouldn't pay for families to relocate to that country, so she was a single-mother for two years and her husband wasn't present for the birth of one of their children. Hmmm... such privilege.
When the military sends us overseas for two or three years it's called 'unaccompanied' and you cannot bring your family, that really hurts.
How about if, rather than playing stupid games like "privilege bingo" in an English class, we teach ENGLISH? How about that? Novel idea? I mean, for crying out loud, I'm far from a perfect grammarian, but some of the writing I see from the younger set is absolutely abysmal. And I wonder what they are teaching in math class? Certainly not math, I'd assume!
How about if, rather than playing stupid games like "privilege bingo" in an English class, we teach ENGLISH? How about that? Novel idea? I mean, for crying out loud, I'm far from a perfect grammarian, but some of the writing I see from the younger set is absolutely abysmal. And I wonder what they are teaching in math class? Certainly not math, I'd assume!
Math is racist.
Correction is a demonstration of white supremacy
It is acceptable to have more than one answer to a problem.
And.....the US falls further behind other nations in the instruction in the basics - but hey we are WOKE!
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