My daughter (10), elated that she got into the class she wanted and avoided the all-girls class: ‘All-girls classes suck!’
Me, naively: ‘Why?’
My studious 10-year-old: ‘Because they’d be all prissy and there’d be no boys to fall in love with.’
Ladies and gentlemen, the main purpose of public schooling, right there… in case there was ever any doubt.
(And I say this sarcastically, of course, because when the knowledge content has been thinned out and dumbed down beyond recognition, what else is left but socialization…)
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