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Apr 14, 2022·edited Apr 14, 2022Liked by T.L. Davis

How to revive it is always the question. Times will need to get harder before traditional standards become important to people who have been raised without them. Times will get harder. They always do. The revival could come gradually, by correcting the failed education system. Usually it requires force.

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Your talk of escaping daycare reminded me of when I was a little girl in kindergarten. I hated it from day one, so every day at recess, I tried to plan escaping myself. The problem was, the school was miles from my home and the bus went on a really convoluted route picking up all the children. I would go over the route I would have to take to get home, and I would get most of the way there, but there was one spot that I couldn't figure out. In my innocence, I thought my mother would welcome me home, but of course she just would have taken me back. Since I was a small, five year old girl, it's probably better that I couldn't figure out the way home. My husband started skipping out in kindergarten too, in a different school, but since he lived in a town, right near the school, he didn't face the problems I would have.

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