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Are kids even treated like humans?

So I've been thinking for a while about this subject, and I finally decided to make a post about this some time after I saw a YouTuber say what I put on the title of this post.

Thing is, I've noticed that very often young people and especially kids are treated as lesser beings, like if they were not humans beings with problems and lives of their own but just an annoyance that people have to keep up with.

I remember when I was a kid and I wanted to cross a zebra crossing cars would just pass by without stopping more often than not. Now that I'm an adult they stop pretty much every time. I suspect it was because they didn't want to stop for someone they consider to be lesser than them.

Also, a lot of people seem to think that being a kid means that you just play videogames or whatever all day, but don't these people remember when they were kids? I sure do. Going to school has been the worst thing I've ever had to endure. The only difference with having a job is that you don't get paid.

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  • The US "school to prison pipeline" has a double meaning:

    1. Schools in the US do not adequately prepare children for society, and as a result many fall into poverty and turn to crime to survive.

    2. Children in US schools are literally treated in a way that takes many elements from how inmates in US prisons are treated.

    • The presence of "resource officers" in schools also increases the likelihood that a student ends up on the School to Prison Pipeline as administrations defer to the officer as a mechanism for punishment, which often results in criminal charges against the student. Their existence in schools can not even be justified via critical analysis because any inquiry into their "effectiveness" proves that no resource officer in any school building across the country has ever prevented or reduced the likelihood of a mass causality event in the building.

      • Also it's surprisingly common for minors, as in children, to be tried as adults and be sent to adult prisons in the US.

        Let that sink in.

        • Oh damn, I thought it was just Australia who did that! Finally, the US is adopting something from our prison system, rather than the other way around.

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