r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

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u/SideInitial3961 Jul 16 '26

What a garbage time to be a kid in USA.

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u/SilentPhilosophy3307 Jul 16 '26

It's not a great time to be an adult in the USA either, if we're being honest.

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u/SideInitial3961 Jul 16 '26

So very true. Weird point in history right now.

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u/Totoro_II Jul 16 '26

not a great time outside of the USA, either

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u/JohnHazardWandering Jul 16 '26

Getting shot by the police there too?

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u/VinesOverScars Jul 16 '26

If not by their own police or military, then by someone else's military, sometimes it's a cartel, or extremist organization instead. Those not being murdered by their own power structures are instead being either pervasively surveilled or facing modern slavery. Often and as is the case in the US, you get all 3.

All the while the whole world is being suffocated by 10 massive conglomerates and murdered by the pollution they cause, and the 5 most influential leaders of the world hate both eachother and everyone else.

Our oppression at the hands of the state in the US is far from unique, or even original. 

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u/FyneBlackKyng Jul 16 '26

yeah it sucks to sit in class all day without a cellphone - Class of 2002

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u/SideInitial3961 Jul 16 '26

Was speaking about the clear backpacks actually and how young people have zero privacy. Like young women have things in their bags they don't want you to see, you do understand that is their human right that we should be respecting yes?

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u/MsTeaholic Jul 16 '26

We were required to carry the clear or black mesh back pack when I was in high school, I graduated 25 years ago so this is really not new. Girls were still allowed to carry purses so it didn’t really affect privacy.

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u/depressed_killer Jul 17 '26

right like guys cant have privacy…

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u/cl0udmaster Jul 16 '26

They're preparing them for the school to prison pipeline!

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u/KanMDJD Jul 16 '26

Why would anybody imagine that children have a right to privacy that adults are obliged to respect?

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u/rogerdoesnotmeanyes Jul 16 '26

Because if you don’t give kids privacy* you raise sneaky kids who hide shit from you when it really matters because they (correctly) think they can’t trust you.

*obviously with reasonable steps as they age, no one is advocating for letting toddlers hide anything they want.

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u/KanMDJD Jul 16 '26

Having your default assumption being that children will naturally rebel against any assertion of authority says far more about the failure of this style of parenting than anything else. Why not raise socially healthy children who follow rules because they have internalized those rules and the benefits that come from being upstanding, rule-following citizens, and not ones who feel the need to assert their own preferences when those preferences go against valid authority? It isn't difficult to do.

This reasoning about giving them privacy so that they don't become sneaky is exactly the same reasoning that has parents letting their kids drink beer at home, because at least they're not out partying somewhere. If that's your reasoning, you already failed somewhere along the way to teach them to respect the rules even when those rules don't result in an outcome that matches their own personal preferences. They are children; the amount to which their personal preferences should matter in decision-making concerning their care and upbringing should be near zero, across the board. They get to decide what to do with their lives as their leashes are let out, and those leashes are only let out as they age.

This system works, and has worked, for all of human history. Children do not get to make decisions and their preferences are indulged only at the election of their caregivers precisely because they are children.

There are reasons to defy authority, yes. Sometimes, it may even be morally obligatory. This is not one of those times.

We're not talking about people's lives and livelihoods here. We're talking about clear backpacks. There is nothing apart from parts of their own bodies, and I mean absolutely nothing, that any student - boy, girl, both, or neither - should be hiding from public view while at school. Have a change of underwear or some pads? Put it in a sack in your locker. Put it in a purse. Put them in a manilla envelope that is inside the backpack.

Just stop pretending that if a school security officer sees a tampon, it's going to be the end of the world, even though that's the 600th one he's seen that morning, and he does not care.

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u/_probablyryan Jul 16 '26

the benefits that come from being upstanding, rule-following citizens, and not ones who feel the need to assert their own preferences when those preferences go against valid authority

Is the valid authority and the benefits that come from being an unquestioning rule follower in the room with us right now?

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u/KanMDJD Jul 16 '26

If you feel that there is no such thing as a valid authority, then congratulations on being a genuine anarchist. There aren't many of you out there. For all of the rest of society that does find authority to not be inherently invalid, there're rules and the benefits that come from following them.

As for unquestioning, nobody has suggested you can't question authority or the reasoning for the rules, so I'll leave that strawman where you dropped it.

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u/FlakyTest8191 Jul 16 '26

So it would be fine for you if police could just search through your stuff and your home whenever they want? After all, you're a socially healthy individual who follows the rules, right?

Kids are people too, putting them under general suspicion is a bad idea, just like with adults. That doesn't mean they don't need age appriopriate supervision, but there is a big difference.

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u/snarbuckle Jul 16 '26

How authoritarian

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u/gustavessidehoe Jul 16 '26

Kids have a right to privacy and you really should be for it, otherwise you’re going to be lumped in with the weirdos who won’t let their teenage daughter have a lock on her door so no one bursts in while she’s changing. 

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u/KanMDJD Jul 16 '26

What kind of insane house has locks on interior doors, other than bathrooms? If I bought a house with locks on bedroom doors, they'd be removed as soon as the move-in was complete, on principle. You want to change clothes undisturbed? Close the door.

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u/SideInitial3961 Jul 16 '26

Have a daughter. She will teach you.

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u/FyneBlackKyng Jul 16 '26

yes this is a womens rights issueÂ