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Best Friend Ban? What a Lousy, Orwellian Way to Rear Children
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyHey there, helicopter parents and minions in schools, camps and extra-circular activities: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" called. It wants its fascism back. We here at Woman Up are weighing in on The New York Times story, "A Best Friend? You Must Be Kidding," and responses of readers, which are near unanimous in contempt for the notion that best friends are bad for kids. Starting with a Facebook friend of mine who wrote: "For a minute, I thought this was an Onion article." (The Onion is a satiric site of fictional news.) In one corner, we have administrators. They claim the best friend paradigm ...
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