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It would certainly solve the inconsistency to lower voting age, yes. I'd personally rather raise the age of being an "adult" to a court, but lowering the voting age would be better then just leaving disparity all over the place.

Change a number and substitute one word and you're a paedophile, Timelord.

You're walking a fine line there.

When I was a wee one, this was played sitting on a park bench (co-ed btw).

Fill the bench, and when the titular phrase is called out, everyone rocks back and forth until someone goes off one end. This person gets a center seat and the game goes on...wash, rinse, repeat.

1st popularized in the Peanuts comic strip.

Did I miss the part where it stated that the kid regularly missed homework? Because I don't see how a parent not knowing their kid didn't do their homework one time, makes them an uninvolved parent, yet you're not the first one to say that in this thread.

The punishment isn't for this kid, it's for the other kids. Social control through public shaming isn't a new concept. It's also not particularly effective. It'll probably learn to more children learning how to collaborate on copying one anothers assignments, which is something that will serve them well later in life if they enter the corporate world, so that might be a benefit.

How about if the kid doesn't do his homework, he gets whatever negative grade effects are represented by the homework portion of said grade?

I guess I just don't get this obsession with making sure some kid in a school does his homework. It's his choice. It's his parents choice to punish him or not if his grades are bad. And ultimately, he'll suffer or succeed based on the real results of his ability to learn things in school. Maybe his future career as a manure spreader will not be impacted a single bit by failing to complete all his homework assignments in school.

Why do we care?

Yeah, the bad grade, and that's more than enough. If a student fails, s/he fails. The state has an obligation to provide the child with an environment in which to be fairly educated; whether the student takes advantage of it is neither the fault of the state nor the parents. You have to go to school, but you aren't required to pay attention or to do the work.

To hover over a child's homework, not attendance, but homework, is to disrespect that child as a person capable of agency and choice.

We agree on plenty of things (most of them principles,) just nothing that we actually talk about, because while conflict is the womb of the interesting, abstract principles are the barren old ladi.. you know what this generation metaphor is getting too weird.