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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
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I really lucked out missing all this surveillance state shit. I honestly feel like it stunts a kid's development in ways we don't understand yet - I was able to get myself to and from school, completely unsupervised, from fourth grade onwards (and yeah I occasionally skipped days Ferris Bueller style), and nowadays I'm aware of high school kids who've literally never done anything like that before.
holy shit. I'm only in my early 30's and I can't imagine getting away with skipping an entire day -- or more importantly where I'd have been able to go in my wretched car-based city as a minor on a school day without any money etc.
there is definitely too little room for shenanigans like that in our lives now
It helps that I wasn't doing it nine times a year, more like once or twice, so the administration had bigger fish to fry. I remember when I was seventeen driving up to the school and seeing that they were checking everyone's bag, saying "fuck that", and simply turning around and driving home. I don't even think I had anything, I just balked at the idea of being searched.