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2006-08-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-01 09:46|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I would have been kicked out of school a dozen times when I was a kid....

Posted by Mark E. 2006-08-01 12:44|| 2006-08-01 12:44|| Front Page Top

#2 I would pay serious money to see an Agg Townz Fights vs. Faerieworlds Festival...

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-01 12:50|| 2006-08-01 12:50|| Front Page Top

#3 The police have taken away just about every avenue for cleaning up the gene pool. These guys will probably give it a nice high-gloss shine. Fight on, teen boys!

Posted by BH 2006-08-01 13:06|| 2006-08-01 13:06|| Front Page Top

#4 The police broke up a fight ring here in Austin a few months back. Funny thing most of the teens were from the wealthiest area of town, the Westlake area.

Posted by texhooey">texhooey 2006-08-01 16:40|| 2006-08-01 16:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Funny thing most of the teens were from the wealthiest area of town, the Westlake area.

They probably have a zero-tolerance policy on fighting in their schools - where the victim gets punished for fighting back.

I went to an old private boarding school that had a fighting policy akin to duelling: it was discouraged but allowed if witnessed and done fairly. As long as noone was ambushed or sucker-punched, that was the end of it.

It sounds quaint and archaic, but we only had a handful of such fights in my three years there. Pretty good for a place with hundreds of teenage boys living in close proximity 24/7.

I have a suspicion that this policy has been abandoned in our hyper-PC era.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-08-01 17:57|| 2006-08-01 17:57|| Front Page Top

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