Thursday, June 17, 2010

Not saying this lightly: God-damn these nannies,

there's not one damned thing they won't screw with. All for your own good, of course.
But increasingly, some educators and other professionals who work with children are asking a question that might surprise their parents: Should a child really have a best friend?
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“I think it is kids’ preference to pair up and have that one best friend. As adults — teachers and counselors — we try to encourage them not to do that,” said Christine Laycob, director of counseling at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis. “We try to talk to kids and work with them to get them to have big groups of friends and not be so possessive about friends.”

“Parents sometimes say Johnny needs that one special friend,” she continued. “We say he doesn’t need a best friend.”

I declare that, in the name of diversity and progress, we should line these bastards up, yank out every other one and hang them.

It's all for the public good. Truly, in this case.

2 comments:

stled said...

MICDS is an expensive private school in the St. Louis, Mo. suburbs. It runs from pre-school through 12th grade. All the kids I know who graduated from there had "best friends", but I they all graduated before 2007.

But it is private not public.

Anonymous said...

Can't create a society of equals(well except for the few who are MORE equal) if the little bastards form independent friendships...