student loans are a hit!

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

WHO’S BEEN CALLING IT?

WHO’S BEEN RIGHT?

Ya’ll have NO IDEA how many requests my agency gets from parents regarding their kid not wanting to go to school. Kids have figured out that the schools don’t give two shits and push all of it back on the parent. If the parent can’t physically and safely force their kid in the car, the kid has just temporarily outsmarted the entire system

We get so many requests like this during the school year it’s a guarantee to get multiple ones every. Single. Morning. And I’m not talking about repeats

“Quiet quitting” ain’t just happening with adults and it’s not quiet either. Some of these kids will raise hell to not go

And you can’t hospitalize a kid for not wanting to go to school. And if the kid doesn’t want to participate in behavioral health services like counseling either, guess what? Clinics won’t even bother to waste time signing them up

Just refuse everything until your parents can legally kick you out at 18 and be fucked. That’s too many naive kid’s plans these days

Kids can’t refuse anything. This is ridiculous

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Kids can’t refuse anything. This is ridiculous

Legally their parents decide on their medical and mental health treatment, but that’s on paper

If a parent wants a child to get counseling, and a child refuses, let’s explore this. How does the parent get them there? Assuming this is a teenager, does the parent tie them up, hands and feet and drag them to the car? Maybe two parents hog tie the teen then lift them on each side like police due for a violent uncooperative adult?

Speaking of police, they won’t restrain kids unless the kid is an immediate and serious danger to themselves or others. They won’t restrain them to bring them to a hospital, they won’t restrain them to bring them to school. They won’t even restrain them to bring them to a behavioral health hospital. A kid can tell a police officer they plan to kill themselves that day, and unless they are in the actual physical act of it, the cop cannot touch them. There is too much liability for them to restrain kids. A kid breaking the law past curfew can be corralled and returned home by a cop, that’s about the extent of their help

But let’s say the parent magically teleports the uncooperative kid to the counselor’s office. How exactly do you get the kid to talk? Does the counselor stick their hand up the kid’s ass and move their mouth like a puppet? Does the counselor begin to torture them, maybe waterboard them a little like they are a prisoner of war?

A kid can’t LEGALLY refuse a lot of things, until it comes time to enforce that rule. THEN, the kid can actually refuse almost everything