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From: TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds)
Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: You're Not A Kid!
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Date: 16 Dec 89 05:17:11 GMT
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    Enough, already!! You people are crazy!! I am a seventeen year old person
and I call myself a kid because everyone else calls me one. That isn't the
point. The point is, if these guys want their own forum where they can discuss
things WITHOUT adults with the attitudes I've seen over the past weeks getting
in their way, let them (or should I say let us?)! It's no skin off ANYONE'S
nose!! If you think the group is ridiculous, you have the option not to read
it, and I suggest that option be exercised. Don't get down their throats
because they think the group is justified! *I* think the group is justified!
Wanna scream in *MY* face???

    And also, the point of stereotypes amongst our respective age groups is a
valid one, and one that people seem to forget when they turn 21 and can legally
suck death from a bottle. In order to conform, you have to be a 'jock'. If you
aren't on some form of atheletic team, you are shunned. This results in high
drop-out rates when people get discriminated at school by the students and the
faculty. The schools look the other way. Sometimes we have to go around the
public school system and get our education elsewhere. Why can't we, the shunned
ones, unite? According to what I've heard, we aren't mature enough to have
intelligent discussion. I, for one, can be put in a uniform and sent halfway
around the world to kill people at any minute. But I'm not mature enough to
have an intelligent conversation?
    I see where I stand. I thank you all for patronizing me and my fellow non-
adults-therefore-non-humans. May you all find yourself in my shoes.
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