What ever happened to “separation of church and state”? We can’t have judges use religious reasonings in court rulings before people begin to be charged by breaking the law of the Bible and not the law of the land.
Right wing justices don't care. They love to push their beliefs on everyone else and hold us to standards they don't hold themselves to. It's sickening.
theyve already straight up said they dont care. they WANT a "christian" government. sure most of them dont even follow the actual religious teachings, and theyre also the same people that HATE non christian governments cause terrorism or something. but hey. hypocrisy is a skill theyve long since mastered.
So if one of those fertility clinics shuts down, technically those embryos should become a ward of the state. Which would mean the Alabama Child Protective Services would have to be called in order to take custody (conservatorship) of those "children". Which would also mean that the funding to keep those embryos "alive" would fall solely on the taxpayers and Federal funding as well. So basically the people of Alabama may end up paying for an embryo maintenance facility which I cannot imagine would be cheap.
They should just do away with IVF treatments in Alabama. If they want to vote for people who believe God’s plan never involved abortions, then they should also not believe in IVF, as that spits in the face of God, who clearly intended a couple to adopt a child instead.
The fact that having a miscarriage could be considered as committing homicide will lead to an incredibly large amount of emotional trauma for someone on top of the trauma from miscarrying. At this point it feels like having a period might become illegal in some states.
Wasn't a woman who miscarried charged with having an abortion? What about children who die of fatal defects within hours/days of birth? Is that the next step to get more extreme?
@@steviewonder417 if abortion is murder, miscarrying is manslaughter. one is done on purpose, the other is done by accident. this isnt fearmongering. these are the rules according to the criminal justice system that folks who want to take away women's rights want to apply on all women and girls.
Regarding the supreme court’s ruling, So if I have a frozen IVF embryo (just as example) , am I allowed to claim them as dependents on taxes? They said they have the same rights children right?….
Imagine a guy working at a sperm bank who drops a bunch of sperm on accident. Not only would that be an icky mess but now he's got like a thousand life sentences to deal with. Sounds pretty goofy to me.
This isn't the gotcha people think it is. If you have family members in other countries that you support you can't claim them as dependents on your taxes either. Doesn't mean they aren't people. Personhood and having a social security number and being in the tax system are not the same thing.
About that embryo story, I have so many questions. Frozen embryos sometimes don't survive the process for reasons outside the providers control. So does that mean the clinic could get charged with criminal neglect or could a couple who freeze their embryos be charged with child endangerment? And what about abandoned embryo's that are donated for study? And what do we do with abandoned embryo's? Do clinics have to keep them in storage? If they do, does the state have to compensate them the cost of maintenance? Does that count as having a dependent? Can clinic workers write off the embryo's for a child tax credit? I got a whole list of these.
Reminds me of that suv episode where a couple stole embryos believing they are alive I believe one of them the man was shot by a windowed husband who froze his late wife's embryos
What's really crazy is that embryos are NOT guaranteed to be a viable full term pregnancy. The doctors even tell would-be parents this as they go through the process of IVF...
Im a child abuse survivor, one of the worst abuse instances was when I became "truant" at my high school. The highschool refused the doctors notes I provided, which was the start of me learning about my disability that has made me wheelchair bound. In their opinion I was "using the doctors to escape school" but I legitimately couldn't get to school because I couldn't walk and didn't have a wheelchair yet. My mom almost killed me she beat me so badly. And from that point forward I no longer cared about school because they had joined my mother as abusers in my life.
You just gave words to a feeling I have had for a long time The school and the church joined in as abusers, refusing to aid me. I am productive and happy today, no thanks to those institutions
As someone currently working in an IVF clinic and training to be an embryologist (in the UK), the Alabama law just screams of legislation that has been made by people who have no clue what we do in our labs Loss of embryos is part of the normal treatment proces as not every fertilised egg makes a good embryo. At the end of the treatment, we will dispose of these as they have no chance of creating a viable pregnancy. Would this disposal of non-viable embryos be considered child murder? Or inappropriate disposal of a body, seen as how the embryos is effectively dead anyways? In addition, disposal of unused viable embryos from our cryostorage is an almost daily occurrence. Patients will decide to consent to this for many reasons, including their family being complete. In Alabama, would couples be forced to have these unwanted embryos implanted, or forced to continue paying the storage fees for the rest of their life? And if the couples die before their embryos are used, are they expected to make provisions for the embryos in their will (like one would do if you had a minor child) as you can't just "kill" the embryos when the parents die? And in cases where couples separate, will they be forced to fight for custody over frozen embryos and pay "child support" in the form of continued storage fees? All-in-all this legislation has been made by people who have no clue how the IVF process works, and what it entails. If I was an embryologist in Alabama, I would be leaving the state and going to a place where actual science, not God, informs the legislation
They don't care what you do. They just care their brainlet followers who do nothing to better the world or people around them can feel like righteous godly saviors protecting kids, even though they are directly contributing to harming kids and families. Conservatives now only operate on optics. Cultures wars for us, funneling of wealth and power for them. Nowhere in that transaction is there rational thinking.
"Would this disposal of non-viable embryos be considered child murder?" If it is, then "God" is the biggest abortionist in existence, since half of all pregnancies end up with a miscarriage anyway.
Maybe we should not be commercializing human life, and not only religious people are tired of it. Many in the feminist movement are moving to ban the female exploitation side of the business going after surrogacy and trying to teach women that they are complete without having a biological child, starting with lesbian couples. When you say "actual Science" you really mean "profit" from people's insecurities and exploit societal norms to make money. Science tells you how to freeze embryos, how to implant them etc, and how to maximize couples' chances, it says nothing about the moral and economic questions. The share scale shows capitalism is in control. So yes, maybe the legislators have funny reasons, but enough is enough with the commercialization of everything (including personal data). People need to regulate for-profit/for-power/ for-war science before we discover the answer to the Fermi paradox or become totally utilitarian around human lives.
Air Canada did the same thing to my wife and I when my sister in law died while we were on our honeymoon. I called Air Canada to get an earlier flight home as soon as we heard. We told the AC rep exactly what happened and how we needed to get home ASAP... not only did she not tell us about the bereavement fare, but she refused to reschedule or refund our original return flights and the only thing she had to offer us were price gouged tickets and advised us "next time" we should buy the more expensive tickets so we can change our flight. I found out about bereavement fare after the fact and similarly, Air Canada said it cannot be honored retroactively. Another issue is that bereavement fare requires you reach out via email, wait to maybe get a code and then book your flight. Loss happens suddenly and there won't always be time to get proof and wait for the discount code. Wanted to share as this is not just an Air Canada AI bot problem, it's a problem with Air Canada as a whole.
I have a Masters in Writing, and three times in the last two weeks I have gotten calls from companies wanting to hire me to train their AI to write. They say it will only take six months and after they won't need me anymore. They are asking me to teach the thing that is going to replace me. And they think I will do it for $23 an hour. They are wanting to get truly desperate people who need the money to help put themselves out of work in the near future. It is horrifying.
I keep seeing jobs for bogus AI training schemes and I'm willing to bet a lot of them are rug pulls too or jobs where you have to do a "2 week-1 month probation period unpaid" or something and they never intend to keep their new hires on and they'll just burn through cycles of college grads looking to pad their CV's and get experience so they don't even have to pay for labour. Always sets off alarm bells when I see these job ads that have no closing date on applications because you know they're just labour farms, it's a revolving-door type of job, no one actually gets in, it's all "probation periods" or getting you to work unpaid until you wise up and leave (in which case, the next person to get scammed steps in)
That's the late capitalist race to the bottom for ya! Maximum output for minimum costs will eventually result in nobody having a job. It's stupid. My aunt works for *redacted* and makes bank. She is one of I believe 8 people in North America with her particular skillset and combination of degrees, and same thing. *multiple* companies have tried headhunting her for a very similar kind of thing, ultimately to train her eventual replacement in the industry-and they were offering her half of what she makes currently. The writing on the walls is written in blood and people are just watching it drip.
Are these embryos truant from school? Can the clinic sue its clients for child support?? Are they getting older, and if so, will they eventually be able to vote???
Wow, the exact situation with Air Canada happened to my wife and I last year. Her father passed away suddenly and we needed a flight to BC, Reached out about their bereavement fare and was told to reach out after. Then told we should have beforehand. Thank you for reporting on this story Phil. Air Canada trying to dodge this is so on brand for them it's WILD.
I'm 45yrs old, and I still carry the trauma of being put through the court system because of excessive absences. They threatened my mother with jail, threatened me with juvenile hall, forced me into "truancy rehabilitation programs" that were basically child labor for the county, and we were treated like criminals. Not one social worker, truant officer, court official, guidance counselor, or school administrator wanted to really listen about the daily abuse I had been enduring at school every day. It wasn't just insults, other kids were stealing things from me, hurting me if I talked back with hard pinching or snapping pencils on my arms or face. I could go on and on. Most of the teachers and admins treated me like I was being annoying if I reported, and I was told "Nobody likes a tattletale" more than once. I had ONE empathetic teacher who advocated for me (whose kindness I've never forgotten), but her words in my defense fell upon deaf ears. I tried really hard to "suck it up", but finally I cracked and couldn't face going anymore. I stayed home for months, so the Florida court system came for us and just added more trauma on top of trauma. I was not a bad kid, my academics were just fine, but I was treated like a criminal. It saddens and angers me beyond description to hear that kids are still facing these sorts of consequences 30yrs later, especially because I know firsthand that schools have not gotten much better in terms of properly caring for kids who face daily abuse from their peers. The majority of kids who fall into truancy need understanding, patience, and HELP. Threats and punishment just make everything 100x worse, and our kids deserve better.
To many people are victims of "time or place" in a different school or decades later your whole experience would have been drastically different. Thank you for sharing
I am so sorry you went through that. I went to school in FLA. Most of the teachers and administrators did not care. The student population was volatile, and so many were new or moving back to somewhere. If you found a friend they were likely gone in months or no longer your friend. I was very lucky. I found MCJROTC. It saved me. I don't think I would have made it with out Top Master Gunnery Sargent Harrison.
I never had words to explain what I went through bc it's such a jagged area in my mind, but they did the same thing to me verbatim when I got bullied starting middle school in 09, I'm still suffering and can barely be in public now with out masking as I'm on the spectrum and it's really all I know how to be anymore
Yup. My parents were threatened with truancy when I kept skipping school because I was being tortured by bullies everyday. Of course the school never cared about any of that, just the fact that I wasn’t attending school. The assistant principal took a special interest in me & would start calling my mom directly every time he noticed I wasn’t in class. He was such an asshole. But I’ll never forget my art teacher who moved heaven & earth to help me move out of her class when she noticed a group of girls bullying me. The only admin that ever stood up for me. Plus what were my parents supposed to do?! They were at WORK every day. It’s not like they could physically stop me from just leaving school once I got there lol
The fear of this is ultimately what made me keep facing the abuse I was subjected to in the mid-2000s during school. I didn't want to get my mom in trouble, and I didn't want it either. It was a living nightmare.
Regarding the AL IVF case: This is precisely why the forefathers wanted separation between church and state, because laws based off religious belief only create division since we are supposed to be a melting pot of cultures and beliefs.
A handful of years ago my aunt retired from an IVF center. The person or people that had taken over turned off the temperature safety alarm on some refrigeration units and were closed for the weekend. Upon returning to work, they realized some 4k embryos and eggs were destroyed because the refrigeration had malfunctioned and they were never alerted to it. Extremely negligent. There were lawsuits and large payouts in the millions for the families affected. This is why these centers have insurance. There is no reason to label an embryo as a child. Religious greed and trying to oppress poor people by making healthcare even harder to afford, and harder to receive.
@@henryzellman Non American here does Alabama have the death penalty because I think they would go for that if it was 4000 Embryos which in their eyes is 4000 dead humans. Crazy!
@@Krivvet you need some serious help. You have a very delusional and skewed view of reality. Emotions don't change reality. I've seen people emotionally attached to a frickin' broom. Embryo's are not children. Anybody that thinks otherwise needs some serious counseling. Having children or not having children is no more significant or important than any other thing in this world.
@@Krivvet Then they are treated as extensions of the medical care of the WOMAN to whom they where taken from. Like ANY type of medical abuse or malpractice. If is about justice for the woman that is paramount. They are not children. No. Not even close. Religion has zero place in a legal argument also.
I'm actually from Missouri, grew up in one school district and now work at another in a non-teaching role. The one I currently work at is, and this is key, more affluent than the one I grew up in. As a kid, I super remember single moms and miniority students suddenly disappearing and someone would be like "oh they transferred to *other district* because they live with their grandparents now" or something else because their parents would get arrested for truancy, which wasn't even their fault. It took my grade in high school starting a local "after school daycare" that would bus elementary students over to the high school to care for them, for some change to happen because a really well-liked girl was in charge of her 7 siblings and her now divorced mom, who left due to DV, was being threatened with jail time for the truancy of her siblings. So much truancy disappeared for so many little ones with just a simple after school daycare and a few really cool teachers. Now I work at the affluent district. Kids miss all the time for hunting season, Disney trips, hockey games, daytime Cardinal games, parades, events, St. Patricks Day is essentially an unofficial day off around here. Not a single person cares. Kids get back and the absence is totally excused and seen as an "educational enhancer" because, like, those kinda things are. Some things can't be taught in a classroom and I'm so glad these kids have those opportunities, don't get me wrong, but god damn can we please lay off the poor and minority groups that are just struggling to get by, living paycheck to paycheck with nothing left over for "proper" childcare. They do not deserve to be punished for barely getting by while the affluent kids can go to Disney. Those poor/minority kids in underfunded schools will probably never even think about going to Disney.
As usual a lot of the problems in the US are because of wealth inequality. Your society seems to always exhaust all forms of punishment before deciding to finally adress the root causes... I really hope things improve.
Kids missing a week to go to disney world or hunting is not the same as missing 18+ days because the parents don't care. I would like to see a grade comparison to kids missing because they went hunting vs kids missing 3+ weeks of school . This is whats wrong with society, people like you who want to excuse bad parents. My wife teaches in a poor school district and I can tell you there are plenty of parents who don't care, they may keep their kids at home so they can babysit their younger kids because these lazy non working parents don't want to deal with them. If you cant feed them, don't breed them.
@@ManCatCheese I've been all over the world and that tends to happen everywhere. Even in Europe, though they have more social safety nets. But yeah, it will differ from school to school and educator to educator. Depends on how willing the principal/SI is willing to work with the family to get their kid to school in situations of lack of resources(i.e. a single parent who can't get off work). Many times it's simply a parent who works too much and can't supervise their kid all the time, so the kid skips school because overworked mom/dad doesn't have the time to enforce the rules all the time. And they want to punish the parents... Daycare that is accessible and affordable would go a long way into fixing things like this.
putting parent in jail for truancy is disgusting. Help parents out if needed, but jail helps neither the parent or the child. If you put the parents in jail, they will just take out their child from school entirely and choose home schooling.
With the abortion situation, gotta love that separation of church and state. The whole situation is really insane, so frozen embryos should be on the same level as infants? Like in an emergency frozen embryo and crying baby are the same legally.
I'm waiting for the time someone sues a doctor for trying to treat a tapeworm infection. There's not much separating an embryo and a tapeworm on a functional level.
I understand we fundamentally disagree buut, if I may just point out, it's human DNA from the start, so the essence of human nature resides in those yet-to-be-developped-to-full-grown-babies
The story about kids missing school definitely hit home for me. I'm not a kid now, but as a kid I missed A LOT of school. I remember the principle berating me about my attendance saying how oh we have kids here who are dying from cancer and wont live to see graduation yet they are here, what is so bad in your life that you can't be here? It wasn't until much later in life that I had the answer, I was fighting PTSD because of all the nightmares I had to live. When that's all you know, it seems normal even if it's not even remotely normal, so I couldn't give an answer that should have been obvious to every adult. I faced extreme bullying both in school and outside of school. One such event outside of school was my primary bully leading me into the woods pinning me to a tree holding a knife to my throat, then he asked me if I had any last words because I was going to die right here right now. I was afraid to speak out at the time, and every time I had spoken out prior it got ignored or teachers told me this didn't happen and if it did it was your fault and you deserved it no one ever listened to me. I share this just in hopes that people pay more attention to mental health and the struggles kids face. No one should have to live through what I lived through, and I don't want to see anyone going through anything like that.
I relate to this so much 😭 I wasn't physically bullied but the mean comments damn near never stopped and I was so depressed and had undiagnosed BPD and add. Always felt like I was dumb cause it was hard for me to focus at a slow pace for the whole class and had so many emotions that I didn't know how to release that made me never wanna leave my house. I always turned in my homework but missed so many days. A lotta time I would ditch cause I'd get a bad anxiety attack walking in. My poor mom got called into school district court twice over it and the second time they were so mean. Threatened my mom with jail and straight up called me a dramatic liar 😭
OMG I'm so sorry this happened to you, hopefully things are better now, I have so many friends that are teachers and they talk as if they're all kids of theirs. They wouldn't tolerate anything like that. I know that's not all teachers but bullying can't ever be tolerated. I was bullied too and spent a few years considering ending things myself but decided it wasn't something I was capable of and that just depressed me more because I was resigned to just being stuck....
“Frozen embryos are children” is like saying eggs are just really under cooked chicken. I am from & currently live in Alabama & this scares me. Thankfully I have friends in the pacific & Canadian northwest whose couches I could possibly sleep on if I ever needed. Edited for context: I honestly believe that this is just a weird loophole for people who may possibly need abortions. The fact that it’s Alabama, of all places, they of course would absolutely try to make things more complicated for a woman, whether they want a baby/child or not. It’s all about control over women’s bodies.
I agree Alabama is stupid. But an egg is unfertilized, an embryo is fertilized. We know these people are crazy, but misrepresenting them won’t help them admit they’re wrong.
@@SimpleDimple0u0 I feel like you are not seeing the problem. Fetuses in a test tube have more rights than the people who carry them in their own bodies, their homes. Their souls.
I’m also from Alabama and this has me just ashamed for how asinine this all is. No one has the right to my body but me. Not the state, not my family, just me. This is why if I were to start a family, I’d move out of this state. It’s a lost cause at this point.
I had issues with "chronic absenteeism". I would miss two days a month because of my crippling menstrual cramps and my mother being unwilling to put me on birth control. I was a straight A student and it never affected my grades, but the school wanted to hold me back. I eventually got on birth control, stopped missing classes, and they didn't hold me back; but every kid's situation is different.
Nah, you're missing the point. "Every kid's situation is different" is not true. MANY of the kids who are chronically absent boils down to poverty where the parents simply don't give a shit because they don't value school. You had a chronic medical condition which it should be pretty straight forward to get a note for (though I realize since pains vary so much person to person it can be hard for admins or nurses, etc. to understand, that is an additional complication). But you can't compare this to many many low income parents who don't give a shit, the kids got D's and F's, and they'll eventually drop out to perpetuate the cycle of being failures like their parents. Need to actually keep them in school if they're to have a chance of breaking out of that and doing something with their lives.
The judge in the Alabama IVF case should not only have his ruling overturned citing the 1st Amendment, but he should also be charged with practicing medicine without a license.
You should be protecting God’s children. You should stand by the judges and also ban jackin off. If they’re all truly men of god they will all unanimously agree
The embryo situation reminds me of the scene from legally blonde where Elle makes the argument that ejaculating is child abandonment/murder, for a class that she is in, to ultimately win the debate she is a part of. It's wild to see it potentially be a thing in real life though with different context.
I mean, even in that movie the whole ejaculation equals child. Abandonment was basically played for last. It makes it more depressing that people are taking that argument seriously. Of course, only when it involves women though.
They made that argument in Ally McBael too, I remember it because I saw it as a kid and thought it was so messed up to have it as some sort of moral point.
I was a chronically absent student as a teenager. I was diagnosed with a terminal form of dwarfism as a kid, and when I was 14 a clinical trial occurred for an infusion that ultimately, I still get once a week ,and it has saved my life. I had to miss school one day a week to go to the nearest hospital that was able to do it, an hour and a half away, and have a six hour infusion and then drive home. I'm from PA and had no idea why my parents were always making sure I got that doctor's note, I figured every person in the administration of my school knew about the trial and I would be fine. I forgot to get a Doctor's note one time and got a lunch detention. As a teenager that was doing something that literally saved my life, I cannot imagine if I forgot a Doctor's note 3 times and would be called Truant and be put in Juvenile Detention.
That’s an powerful story! But if you don’t mind me asking, how is dwarfism terminal? I’ve always understood it as a malformation of the bones/growth plates, but never as anything deadly in the slightest.
@@spaceboy4774 There are forms that are definitely more harmful than others, my particular form is called a lysosomal storage disorder, basically I lack an Enzyme in my blood that eats up extra sugars that come from muscle break down, so the sugar build up can cause swelling in my heart and lungs and other things make my breathing a struggle, I’m over 6 years beyond my life expectancy now
When I was in Highschool I was also chronically absent, I was on anti-epilepsy medicine which messed with me a lot but after my Father died when I was 15, I was super depressed (I still got issues from his death) and missed close to one day a week of school for not feeling well. Luckily I grew up in Canada so I wasn't punished for it.
As a Canadian, I'm not surprised that Air Canada tried to get short change their customer over the chatbot. They would do anything to hold on to a few dollars.
It's very inappropriate of a judical court to be citing and "weaponizing" religious beliefs for interpretation of law and would warrant judicial disqualification... if we can even hold these standards
At the middle school where I teach, truancy or skipping class is an in-school suspension, where the students just sit in a room and catch up on missed work.
I dont understand punishing the students at all because the punishment is already built in. You dont have the grades to pass? Take the grade over again. You dont have enough credits to graduate? You dont get your diploma. Most places won't even accept your application without a high school diploma or equivalent. Going into the adult world is punishment enough when you're unprepared like that. It teaches them real quick.
I'm not a lawyer, but there's a doctrine of Separation of Church and State in this country that bars the government from making any laws on the basis of religion, so wouldn't that Supreme Court case regarding IVF automatically be null and void for violating that doctrine by expressly sighting the Justice's religious views in the decision? It seems like this should be a pretty easy ruling to get overturned, assuming there's away for someone to challenge it.
Except that in the history of the United States, no politician has taken separation of church and state seriously. This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. We swear on Bibles, we have under God in our Pledge of Allegiance, and plenty of religious politicians push their beliefs onto the people. That’s nothing new. It is, however, really sad.
Unfortunately… there’s not “a doctrine”. It’s part of the first amendment. It’s basically just that the government can’t make an official religion of the country or favor one religion over another. Maybe you could somehow argue it’s favoring a religion over another. But that feels like a biiiiig stretch. Especially with the current Supreme Court.
@@brandonkennedy4160 Sadly, you're probably right. In fact, the "Under God" line wasn't originally in the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a law that added "Under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, and he also made "In God we trust" the official U.S. motto. Unfortunately, people who are devoutly religious have a tendency to try and indoctrinate others, whether or not they do so with malicious intent.
@@violettefemme21 When I said it was a doctrine, I didn't mean it was a specific law, but rather how the Establishment clause in the First Amendment has been interpreted and enforced. Since the First Amendment prohibits the Government from establishing a national religion or enacting any laws that would provide preferential treatment to any one religion, the prevailing wisdom is to avoid bringing any religion into legal matters at all.
@@r.j.bedore9884 definitely a legal blunder and yes im born/razed LDS/Christian ( it would maybe have stayed if they/he'd left it as outside of the court/governmental room, said documentary or biography or personal journal or in private to friends or family, USA 🇺🇸 isn't purely Christians as atheists are part of the founding fathers and patrons/solders/sailers ect and compromise was definitely part of the process in 1750-1820~ ) but not hardcore if anything im borderline theistic and or pure-sciences and im pro-life and yes i like the general idea of being able to ( reasonably and or transfer/adoption ) pause pregnancy/due-date ( i understand viability's so there's a * for some but like elder/childhood abuse im not letting people off the hook, and advancement's will change the goal-post of what's possible vs 1880's or 1970 ect, also for LGBTQ 🏳🌈parents rights assumptions that there good people/parents like trad-parenting's-is aka everyone is = chance under uk 🇬🇧 or USA 🇺🇸 common-law ) and child's/baby's rights but the way that was written is poorly and maybe its undoing
My husband is active duty military and he was going on a year long deployment. We got that news very, very short notice!!! We only had a little over a month to prep. So we took three days off school and work for family time right before he left and one day off a weeks before, so four days total. Then two weeks after he left, we all got a pretty nasty case of COVID. Despite giving doctors’ notes, positive COVID tests and redacted copies of my husband’s deployment orders I got a nasty letter from my daughter’s junior high that CPS was going to be notified about her absences and she was going to be barred from school field trips because of the chronic absences. Meanwhile my son missed more school because COVID complications and having to see a specialist to determine how to treat his long-haul symptoms, his elementary school didn’t care. I called and talked to his principal and they were so understanding and supportive. My kids were in the same school district with the same rules of attendance but it was the principals that were causing the difference. My daughter’s junior high principal was removed from that position only after a year because of how she was treating students and families. The school board got lots of heat over her “leadership”.
One of my favorite stories is how there is a principal who put a little laundromat in the school so his kids can use them to wash their clothes and it significantly made his school’s attendance better
Was it that guy who was on amazing race? The principal? Who installed like 9 washers and dryers and they'd leave the lights on of the school 24/7. I think I first that story on Ellen years ago and I love that so many others have followed suit.
@@chandradickinson3731 that's how other countries feel about the USA every time they say schools providing lunch is extremely important and often the most kids eat 😵 it's nightmare fuel if you think about it
I’m a teacher. I have a bunch of students who are absent in my first hour because they can’t get a ride to school and they live too far for the school bus or other school-provided-carpool services. Our school systems are failing our kids, and we don’t even have the budget to fix it.
The reason you have no budget is because you have administrators and politicians who have tied funding to attendance. Yes, schools are funded by a variable compensation model while having fixed costs. Knowing this the cost is transferred to kids who are a profit center or at least the cost recovery mechanism. Schools should be funded for an entire year at a time and have nothing to do with attendance. Teachers are punished for the idiocy and greed of those who are supposed to support them.
I pulled my middle child from public school after repeated violations of his IEP and safety plan (he's on the spectrum). I enrolled him through the district's homeschooling department. A year later I get hit with truancy. I ended up having to go to court and show them the enrollment that the same district apparently didn't even look for, despite it being signed by the admin. I guess I made the court look stupid because they made me come back 3 other times to 'prove' he was home schooled with progress reports and competed workbooks as 'evidence'. I hate the school system. It's just as broken as the justice system!
Oh btw the frozen embryo thing: my mother is today 63, she underwent IVF treatment in 1980 to attempt conceiving a child with the dna of my mother and father, which did not succeed, so they adopted me and my sister. Last year she got called up by the fertility clinic, now this is Denmark so government run. Asking if they had her permission to attempt using her frozen eggs that apparently have been there for the last 40+ years, to see if 40+ years in cold storage had a negative impact in fertility rate, because while my mother had issues with the whole pregnancy aspect, the eggs did get fertilised, they just didn’t stick to uterine lining. Which my mother (a nurse) and my father (a doctor) were more than happy to donate the eggs for science, as my mother put it “I don’t need them anymore” That would literally be considered child abuse. Oh the horror, my unborn siblings! I’m fucking with you I don’t believe in life beginning at fertilisation, at first in the first trimester for the majority of the time that “baby” looks more like chunky marinara sauce, than a child, it doesn’t even have a developed brain or eyes for months, which is how you normally classify the difference between animal and plant-based life forms on earth
As an Australian, I had no idea American truancy laws were so strict, especially for parents. I was a relatively unwell teenager and missed a lot of days in the later years of high school because of doctors appointments or just generally not feeling well enough to get out of bed. Not to mention days off for mental health reasons and “normal” sick days. I would have exceeded any limit pretty fast. But it’s not like I wasn’t trying or just missing school for the fun of it. When I missed days I made sure to keep up with my work and study. I still got As on tests and assignments even if I missed a few classes. What these laws don’t seem to understand is the individual’s circumstances that would lead them to miss school and that in reality most kids don’t actually want to miss class/fall behind. By dealing with the problem through punishment (keeping children at home for LONGER??, taking parents to jail etc.) you’re only exacerbating the problem.
I'm Australian too and my school was extremely strict about attendance. However, you could make up attendance by going to homework club (essentially after school detention).
Many time truancy isn't accurate. They just didn't want to put in the information or did it incorrectly. I used to go to school just to sit in the library. If you get marked as present in the morning and at last class nobody noticed that you missed everything else.
The embryo ruling makes my skin crawl. How much further is thos going to go? I live in New Zealand but the mindset seeps in down here too. My local hospital has a small but dedicated group of protesters scaring the few woman who do go into having to go further afield
I'm Canadian and have gone through an IVF cycle that resulted in a miscarriage. Even though it doesn't affect me directly, what's happening in the US scares me. It's stressful enough trying to have a child of your own when you don't know why it isn't working without outsiders trying to get involved. I feel for my American sisters and wish their governments would support the living rather than the potential of life.
I work in a rural school district. One of the things that our district makes sure to do before taking kids to court is we have a FAC conference (Family and Community?). This is where community members get together with a parent and the family to help make sure any barriers, like getting to or from school, are taken care of before moving to truancy court. If the plan created at this conference is not followed, then the parents get taken to court. What this discussion is missing is this: Why is this the school's responsibility? So many government programs that most other developed countries have would solve a lot of this truancy. Accessible/affordable childcare, universal preschool, universal healthcare. Lack of infrastructure makes it difficult for students to walk, bike, or take public transit home. Lack of funding for districts causes students to have to pay for the bus. These are ridiculous! Students having to work because their family can't afford to live is also INSANE. Lack of workers' rights in the US makes it so difficult for people to demand more pay for their work without fear of retaliation. Wages remaining stagnant while the rich get richer is poison to our country. It's so disheartening being an educator in this space because there are parents that want to be involved and support their kids, but they have no ability to due to their financial situation.
The best part about truancy court..they freaking schedule it during the school day. Requiring you to add to your truancy score as well as demanding your parent miss work..only to be fined..it is this memory that has me unwilling to enter my own child into public school.
I had hoped I would avoid some of this by sending my step kid to a charter school. Turns out it's funding is stricter than the regular public schools......which has lead the school to having to lay off 4 teachers this year alone. Part of it has to do with the number of kids they have each day, and when the whole school basically caught the flu over the course of a month was then the last time 2 teachers were laid off. It's very frustrating not just for the kids, but also for the teachers. Schools need better funding that can't be misused......but no one wants higher taxes or oversight it seems.
In the case of frozen embryos being classified as Kids, I suggest that those who live in alabama, to look for all for the local governement supports and programs that are offered there, (if there are any). As if they are going to classify them as kids, get the tax benefits that normally come with it and other such programs.
Nicely pointed. When people come up with this bizarre ideas, there are always major loopholes in the their logic. Alabama sure is something else. Whenever I describe Alabama to my partner, who isn't so much in US culture/politics as me, her reactions are priceless. It takes a while for her to believe some of it, if you have a normal brain and live a normal life in a democratic country.
but then we’d have to give embryos social security numbers 💀 and they’d probably do it, too, just so a clump of cells can have more rights than all women
I saw a video the Billie situation from a Tiktoker who was there who said Billie had a bad off camera interaction with a different tiktoker at the carpet behind the scenes area. Apparently they started making a TikTok and had said or done something to cause Billie to stop, tell them off, and leave. At least how I understand it all is that Bills was talking about a specific TikToker
I’m glad that woman is in jail, with EVERYTHING they had as a family, to treat your children like they are criminals while collecting thousands of dollars from social media says a ton about how much she actually cared about her children.
Jesus I’m glad I read this full comment. 😂 I thought you were talking about the mom that went to jail for the truancy stuff and was about to be pissed. No that other monster should rot in jail though for what she did to those kids
Don't let people forget this situation. They're going to attempt to garner sympathy to earn a lesser sentence as the length of each one will be determined after the previous has ended.
My mom is a school counselor in a district where buses are required to service every single child. And they are still having issues with attendance. One particular case she told me about was a mom who they are sure is unhoused and is trying to drive her kids to the school 45 minutes away every day. There are closer schools but she decided she wants them to go to this one and is using a relatives address. And the people at the school including my mom just want her to be honest so they can get a bus to her so she doesn’t have to drive them every day. But for good reason she doesn’t trust that they won’t report her or will make her relocate her kids. It is very much a problem disproportionately affecting people along class lines.
Yeah when it's a public school, you don't get the taxes of a person if they're not within district lines unless you pay tuition. A lot schools will bus an unhoused child to the same school for the rest of the school year and then they must transfer to a different district after that that is closer to where the person is residing. Schools have to be accountable and only get funding from those within the actual district (at the beginning each school year, called BEDS Day). You can also use McKinney vento to help them find temporary housing in a hotel or something. I'm a school counselor too and a few years ago we found out one of our kids was living in a tent on the side of a road with her mom who was in and out of rehab about 40 minutes away. We used McKinney vento services for the rest of year to get them a motel room and on the list for homeless housing (I don't remember the actual name, but it's like temporary apartments before they move you into permanent affordable apartments) and the girl was transferred to the new district at the end of the school year and they eventually got permanent housing. I've also had kids live in shacks in the middle of nowhere and plenty of other crazy situations their parents get them into (usually it's drugs or gambling, but a few times is was significant mental health/psychotic breaks where a parent would destroy an apartment (legit one pulled all the drywall off the beams and the carpet off the floor in a psychotic episode) and landlord would kick them out. It's sad when states who "ding" schools' funding based on dropout rates or truancy have NO idea the types of situations some kids grow up in. They're not just "numbers".
Social worker here: I used to work with families who struggled to get their children to school, typically due to issues of poverty (no child care, needing their older children to help raise younger children, illness - where it was easier to keep children at home all together when they’re sick). I find it that because this only affects the minority of students, it’s so easy to blame the parents vs. giving other solutions to help provide the children education when they’re missing out. We just came out of a pandemic where it proves we can educate in unplanned conditions. I’m sure systems can get creative to help engage kids in education.
The issue is that is yet MORE work to pile on teachers to try "Fix" things. It also means investing money in tools and resources to try and set up systems to deal with a divided education on individual bases. In other words money. Schools are already so creative they are freaking Vincent Van Gogh of budgets. This isn't a school problem. It is a poverty problem.
@@titheproven954 but that’s exactly the thing, it shouldn’t be up to teachers, their administrators and governments should be engaging in the issues. The poor stay poor, this is proven time and time again, and will stay that way until we are willing to spend money on the issues
As a therapist for children, adolescents, and adults in Mobile County, AL, I get a lot of kiddos who don't do well in a traditional school environment for usually the following three reasons. 1. There is a horrible bullying problem in our schools. 2. There are not enough of us therapist to provide the mental health care they really need nor the care parents need to support their children. 3. They are terrified of being murdered by a school shooter. I often have to encourage any route to getting them a high school education be that an online program or a GED route if they are old enough and so behind they won't traditionally graduate until they are 20. It's heartbreaking to often be some these kids only support and some of these parents only aid to even know what to do for there kids. We 100% need more help as do teachers and parents.
In Legally Blonde they joke every-let's call it a pleasure session-is considered "wreckless abandonment." Since Alabama basically ruled you no longer need a heartbeat for personhood this could now be an actual argument in prosecution. The fact this joke defence from a movie/musical could now have actual legal merit in Alabama courts is insane.
What happened to the separation of church and state? I swear that this is getting scary with how much the church is being able to effect the state. I am a Christian, who is liberal, and lives in a Blue/Purple state, but that IVF Embryo law in Alabama is terrifying! This is gonna spread like wildfire. I'm terrified for the future of women.
American radicals export their belief worldwide, a la Poland, Ethiopia, Uganda, ETC ETC. The buck has to stop here, with us. But I understand wanting ducking away from it all, hopefully for us both, for good. @@GhouliePumpkin
I a guy and all I want is a vasectomy. If women can't have the freedom to determine what they want with their bodies, then I'll take he responsibility myself.
😂😂😂, It's so hilarious to me that you think it's going to be better and Europe... I swear people in America have no idea what it's like in other countries.@@GhouliePumpkin
In middle school, I lost my home. My family and I had to move into a small RV because the housing market was so competitive and too much to afford for my family. This caused many brother and I to miss many days and fall behind in our classes. Instead of having any faculty reaching out to me, I was shamed for being a “lazy” student. I only had a meeting with one person who only asked if I had a shower then never met with me again. Other than that, I got no help, no transportation, no support through the traumatic experience. At the time, I believed it was my failure for missing school. As if, I wasn’t “strong” enough to push past all the trauma and barriers I was facing at 12 years old. Now, I’m a junior in Uni getting a bachelor’s degree in forensic science. Despite that happening 10 years ago, I still struggle with that on a daily basis or I feel guilt sometimes for not being in class. I genuinely believe that my parents weren’t charged with truancy since we were legally homeless.
You seem like an awesome person. I feel like some adults have a hard time realizing that kids are people and some of the behaviors they don’t like are caused by trauma. The best way to help that is with care and a bit of help figuring things out
Being homeless, even for a short period, has lasting effects. Being in college isn't easy either. Hang in there, things will get better. Currently there are 3.5 million homeless children in America on any given day. We can do a lot better for our children. It needs to be a priority.
Don't feel bad. Understand how it shapes you and use it to your advantage to take your courses more seriously. I'm the same way. I have so many regrets, but also I'm graduating this semester and got a mid six figure job offer with a nice company which is huge since among my friends I was very clearly the poorest one and still have panic attacks making back to back $60 purchases even with thousands in savings
Also, I had like 60 absences in my girst period in senior year mostly due to my ADHD messing with ability to sleep, but now I have a 4.0 in university where I can decide my own schedule and take things seriously
We live in Anderson County. Our school gives parents 7 days of parent excuses. If you have 3 unexcused days or more than 7 parent excuses they start punishing. At 10 absences or 3 unexcused, they take you to court. Our school also tells people that if they almost never approve absences unless they are sick or close family has died (for which you only get a few days). I will say our principal will personally call kids to wake them up if needed but these rules are still crazy. One mom I spoke to had to travel to take care of their parents belongings and funeral and needed more than a few days. To get around absences Knox county suggested that they “independently homeschool”their children if they need more time to deal with a family death, then put them back in school when they are ready. (You can pull kids out and put them back anytime for homeschooling in TN.) It looks better on the schools books if the kids are homeschooled for a few weeks than absent, but is it any better?
I remember 25 years ago (Not in TN but this really is a nationwide thing with schools.) when I was in highschool we had to get my doctor to write the school telling them I get migraines, i'm not lying and he refuses to see me and write a letter for me every time I have one as he has other patients and can't see me as often as 3x a week when it was really bad, and that mom's note will have to do. One teacher tried to complain, so I went to his class with a migraine the next time, sat there hiding my face from the bright lights until he demanded i sit up and then threw up on his desk. He stopped demanding i show up with what he called "just headaches, get over it." I wish I could say I was surprised that the schools haven't improved in 25 years.. But I'm not.
I love how alt-right states completely dismiss the fact that CONSTITUTIONALLY there should be separation between Church and State. And yet, here we are - clown car politics FTL!!
I was chronically absent from school. I was bullied a lot in high school. I would have kids all the time. Tell me to end my life. I got so depressed, I would eat lunch in the bathroom and I would skip school to go to the library. I learned so much from reading books from the library than I did in school. The only reason why I passed my classes is that I would just do all of my work in the library. I also had my disabled younger sister I had to take care of so it was hard going to school. I was going to school, taking care of my disabled sister and I had to work as well. I can't imagine what children are going through now these days
I missed a lot of school my senior year because my anxiety was so bad due to isolation from the bullying i received. Funny thing is i went to the school multiple times and cause there was never a physical altercation, just emotional bullying from previous female friends, there was nothing they can do.
I ate lunch in the bathroom when I was in grade 8 for being bullied so badly by girls & boys. One point missed a week straight trying to hide it from my Mother. Can only imagine how bad it could be now for kids with Social media.
I missed school because I was sick all the time and they didn't count as excused absences because I didn't go to the doctor. My dad was a single dad who had to work because my mom died, and the doctors didn't know why I was sick all the time (stress. it was stress.) so my dad was supposed to take a day off work and pay a copay for the doctors to say idk go home and rest. I had good grades and did extracurriculars and it's a miracle I graduated. That was ten years ago (and I miraculously stopped getting sick after I left public school). Now I work with kids and they're all sick all the time. The public school teachers are extremely grateful whenever any parent keeps their kids home but the admins are furious and doing everything in their power to make parents bring their sick kids to school. I know teachers who are quitting after this year because they've been sick since August.
As an IVF baby, when I was implanted it was with three other embryos. I was the only one who took. They did that because, at least at the time, it was the only way to increase the odds enough that maybe one would attach (and it worked!) But in no universe do I considered those embryos my siblings, I am not a quadruplet, my family doesn’t mourn the three babies that never were. The idea that the doctors who made it happen, or even my parents, would be charged is infuriating, but now surprising. Unfortunately, I’ve always been aware of the crazies against IVF. A boy in middle school once told me I was destined for hell, because my existence (being an IVF baby) was unholy - and I’ll never forget back in high school, Mitt Romney choosing a running mate who was against IVF.
I can't even *fathom* the mentality that IVF babies are somehow... Not human? Unholy? Like, the egg and sperm still met and created life, it just took a slightly different route to increase the chances of actual implantation and successful gestation. I always heard the term "test tube baby" in high school and it was like, ok but these babies weren't actually grown in a test tube and then handed over to their parents. That makes no sense. I think religion breeds a lot of stigmatism towards science, and when emotions are involved it just gets so much worse. It's almost like people want to go back to the dark ages where the church was in charge and had an ironclad grip on the masses, and science would get you killed or permanently locked in your house.
My thoughts on Billie Elish is this: We don't know the whole context of the conversation and that's a major problem we see with all these short video clips everywhere. There is no context, no conversation. And that's what I appreciate about you, Phillip...you do your best to create a conversation about all these things.
I heard this hypothesis years ago and is rings truer today: You are in a medical facility that has catches fire. In a room is a young, crying child and canister of 500 embryos. You can only save one. Which do you choose?
I’m a pediatric medical provider and was just speaking to patients today about how ridiculous truancy laws are if the kid has a doctor’s note. I’m actually in Texas where the State can’t jail parents but, at least according to my families, the district can impose punishment. This has been a BRUTAL cold and flu season since the return from winter break and many of my patients parents are worried their kids are not medically healthy because they’ve been sick 3 or 4 times in the past few months. And we have no solid plans to address kids with chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses, kids with migraines or under treated anxiety. There’s no clear answer, but if even half the energy of enforcing truancy laws was put towards getting kids mental health help it would go a long way.
Yes! My son is in his first year of school and he's missed 10+ days so far this year because hes been SICK. It's like every other week he comes down with something. We follow the schools sick policy and send him if he doesn't have a fever/vomiting and is not so ill that he wouldn't pay attention but even then he has missed a lot of days. Its so frustrating that I could possibly go to jail for FOLLOWING POLICY.
@cameoburress8160 same with my kid. He was a micro-preemie and gets sick easily. I'll end up having to unenroll him and attempt home schooling (which idk if I want to do) out of necessity. It sucks.
Texas teacher here. YES! I can totally agree with this. Especially with ill students! On the other hand, I have had students attending class that are terribly and visibly sick (no fever b/c Advil or Tylenol) because they can't AFFORD to miss another day of school, much less go to the doctor for a note.
I have a chronic illness and I've been out for months of my life, I have long covid and I've been at home for weeks. If there wasn't as much understanding, I'd be in big trouble. Also, what I would complain about for my school is that being more than five minutes late is the same as being absent for the full 45 minutes.
as someone in the film industry, im scared shitless. just look back a year and how we all said; "this will take at least a couple years to get close to real life". well, we're here now and it's scary, not only how real it looks but the scariest thing is the lack of rules and regulations that are (what seems like 10 years) behind. yes the accessibility will get easier, but still like daddy phill always says, its the worst it'll be today
@@tezzymezzy2190 as much as I understand the excited sentiment around this in concept, I don't understand how you wouldn't see the overwhelming negative to come from a video generation model that good at making near indiscernible footage that is released to the public. For every cool video you will ever create someone will create revenge porn of their ex, false footage of government bodies or just creating footage that isn't real without ever telling you if it is or isn't. That should concern you so much more than the ability to make a soulless film through writing some sentences.
@@polygollie You'd call it soulless just because someone can't draw or use blender themselves? Just dismissing it all with no regard for the idea itself? You sound like the people that called the first cameras soulless machines that couldn't match a skilled painter.
i wouldn't worry just yet. One, studios likely can't hold any copyright over the content produced because it needs to be made by a human, and two, while it might look good, there is no way to actually edit this stuff. Actual company's won't find this stuff too useful for quite a long time if ever. Maybe for some short shots, but it's far too limited as it is now. These companies might have to even delete their programs in the future if it is decided the content they used to develop it was considered stolen.
Was a "truant" student in middle and high school. I had unexplained at the time severe pain from my uterine conditions that were absolutely debilitating, and not just on my period !I couldn't even get off the couch a good chunk of the time! On top of that, in highschool I had a breast cancer scare, but thankfully the tumor was deemed benign after the biopsy! I still managed to pull off mostly A's in my classes.. I was diagnosed with endometriosis, but the birth controls (estrogen type) made things much worse! This may he in part due to my factor 5 leiden, which was contraindicated I found out after graduation that I have two uteruses and cervixes. That explained a lot. My family would've been even more unstable if either of my parents were prosecuted !
They want kids in classrooms then defund school programs that help keep kids in classrooms. ALL while questioning why the single parent struggles to keep the kid at school. My youngest child graduated in 2020. I cannot tell you how much more stressed I was in dealing with school than I should have been at 40+. Single parents should not be getting it from both ends just to barely survive but here we are.
I dealt with truancy issues in high school (c/o 2013) and both my mom and I nearly got in trouble for it. The threat of it added additional unneeded stress during an already difficult time. I was diagnosed with several autoimmune diseases my junior year. I nearly lost my vision and had to start life-long immunosuppressants. I was guaranteed to miss at least a day every week just going to appointments. Despite thorough communication with the school about what was going on my absence was still considered truancy. I felt so guilty for getting my mom in trouble. School went from being a place of comfort to a source of shame for me. It's really sad to know things haven't changed in the last decade.
There is hope in some districts in some states. Those are "excused" absences and if it ever became too much missed school where you were behind, they'd get you a tutor to help supplement. We're a public school and rural with a huge low income population but our admin and faculty are top notch in helping kids not stress about missing school for medical stuff or appointments (we legit had a kid who had open heart surgery and had to miss two days each week to travel 8 hours round trip to a major city to get checked out and blood tests and stuff for 6 weeks after the surgery and then monthly before his healing got so good he only had to go every two months) but he'd be exhausted after the journey that he'd often sleep through classes the day back in school because of the strain of the tests on his body). We were accommodating but so many schools wouldn't be.
@@HouseMDaddict That is really reassuring! It’s good to know there are school districts doing better by their students. And I’m happy to hear his recovery ended up going so well! I can’t imagine having open heart surgery now, let alone as a child.
As someone who was an unpaid intern for school social work, the social workers are trying their hardest to help these students but they don't have the resources! The school district I was at will give so much money for sports but can't allow for another social worker to be added to staff because that would cost too much (The district had 3 social workers for 10 buildings of students of all ages) It also doesn't help that they see attendance being an issue but only see it as a money issue because the schools get money for attendance but don't want to "waste the time" going for the root causes... Public education really needs a revamp but I don't think it's going to happen because that would mean actually disecting issues rather than brushing them off.
I dropped out of High School after having a 25% attendance rate in middle school. I had anxiety, depression and undiagnosed autism+severe ADHD. I was also bullied by my peers. Most days I couldn't get out of bed. I'd lie awake and cry at night and convince myself to get up in the morning and then when the alarm rang I would just roll over and be non-responsive. My parents cried, begging me to get up and at least eat some breakfast but I'd just ignore them (they couldn't stay either because they needed to work). We went to see multiple doctors, begged for medications or treatment or even a screening for mental illness but they all wrote it off and I wouldn't get diagnosed and medicated until I was 25. I felt so much shame and guilt for putting my parents through that, I couldn't imagine what life would have become if any of us had been punished any further for it. I ended up getting my diploma online as an adult (my mom financially supported me during those times) and I eventually went to university to get a degree in fire safety engineering. We were reported multiple times to CPS and we had meetings with them but the cases were dropped. We had extra meetings with counsellors and teachers and even special ed but they all basically told me to just try harder. I was a kid that loved learning too, I've always done really well on tests and I love math! But there were just no resources available for me to attend school. The thought of my mom spending time in jail or having a criminal record is so upsetting, I would've never recovered from that and defintively wouldn't have been able to finish my education.
Frozen embryos being considered children under Alabama law is terrifying. The fertility industry is severely lacking in federal regulation and legal protections for those using fertility services and donor conceived children. Holding people responsible for the wellbeing of frozen embryos as if they were children opens up a whole terrifying can of worms.
So does that mean the embryos themself qualify for health insurance? Also if they require the same rights and protection how can an embryo be denied LIFE INSURANCE? This ruling seems very risky!
They will not enforce rules that logically follow from their conclusion. Its the hypocrisy at the core of conservatism, its how the declaration of independance had the balls to say every man deserved to be free with slavery being a thing
move to Alabama buy life insurance for dozens of embryos store them at a facility with the worst track record embryos perish at the facility's fault get DOZENS of life insurance payouts skedaddle!
Okay, but can you take out life insurance policies on the frozen embryos? If the answer is no those insurance companies need to be sued. I’m sure the insurance companies will have their lobbyists have this issue fixed real quick.
I was thinking along similar lines, but in regards to things like the power grid. Who would take the blame when a power outage or the like resulted any of the embryos becoming nonviable? Or if a tornado or hurricane caused the same, would that be ruled "The Will of God!" or would they try to string up the construction company for not making the building strong enough?
sure im fine with life insurance for baby's/embryo's but there's the next new problem with that, look at payouts for dead-SO's and kill-motives ect and fraudulent activity ect so it would be better to limit it from happening
Uh… I had/have a ton of health issues and I missed so many classes/days of school. This is insane. I would have been in doctor’s offices for every little thing and that’s too expensive. Most of my issues are chronic and have persisted into adulthood. I am now on legal disabilities- but that wasn’t an avenue open when I was a kid. Criminalizing the student or parent is disgusting. You don’t know someone’s life. I don’t mind gentle intervention like making sure there is no abuse etc but parents need to be able to advocate for children who should also be allowed to speak for themselves.
The other point to add about AI, this is the ones that companies are showing us. Think about what tech other companies are making but are not displaying to the public. I worked with a financial tech company working on using AI to replace auditors. Think of all the other sectors that want to remove 90% of their workforce.
@@steviewonder417 What's going to happen to all of these professions freaking out about AI is the same thing that happened to every other profession that got hit with industrialization. All this is replacing is the mediocre 'good enough' jobs with automation. There's still going to be specialists, there's going to be people who are so good that AI won't replace them, and there's going to be local examples that people are going to buy. I mean, people still buy hand crafted wooden furniture despite having factories that churn them out.
Alabama resident, the fact that the justices used their religion as their legal opinion is absolutely disgusting. The US has freedom of religion for a reason. Blending religion and law together is extremely dangerous and is EXACTLY what our nation's founding fathers were trying to escape from.
All the evidence to prove the wisdom of separation of church and state can be found in countries that don't. The middle east and India are full of such examples where enforced religious doctrine stifles human potential.
Strange that the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice should have a fear of the wrath of God when it comes to the destruction of a frozen embryo while at the same time Alabama has the death penalty.
Listening to the story on kids missing school gave me whiplash. As a kid I had a lot of mental health issues, had me in therapy at 4, and even them being On Top of trying to figure out what was wrong with me, when it grew to a point of agoraphobia, I ended up in truancy court, with a probation officer and community service hours before an age I could've been legally hired for the retal space they had me serve those hours.
My kid's school district threatened us with truancy last year despite 1. he'd been absent due to covid and rsv, 2. I'd called him out every single morning as required by their policy *and* had gotten doctor's notes to cover the missing days, and 3. he was only 4 years old and not covered by truancy laws. At no point was I contacted by the school to express their concerns- did we need help getting him to school? was there a financial problem? something they could help with?-, just got a form letter in my son's backpack on a random Thursday in April. Turns out the district had sent them to *every* student with more than 5 absences, regardless of their being excused or applicable. The whole system is stupid and needs a massive overhaul.
@@wmdkittyget a kid to class while they're literally sick and have a doctors note? Lol, what? If you think we should be sending sick kids to class then you're part of the problem.
I hate the excused/unexcused nonsense. All it is teaching is that you are supposed to have one of their reasons why you can miss. Which is to teach people later in life, to be good little workers, and never call out. If my kid is having a bad day, why would I send them to school to have the teacher deal with that and they are probably not going to learn anything anyways. Noting the absences and reaching out with information and resources to help parents is all that matters. Thinking a stick is going to fix all the worlds problems is asinine.
Alabama horror story of a ruling makes me so glad am Canadian ! In our country the provinces can NOT over rule federal laws, so if Ottawa says no religion in any law then no province could do what Alabama has done. I always shake my head when I hear that life starts at conception and those same people don't want a social safety net to help those children ....hypocrites
The State laws in the US do not overule Federal Laws its literally the same. However, he can use religion in his " interpretation " of what the Law says just not in the "creation" of the law because religion is allowed to influence how we think as people in the US simply because of the freedom of religion. However, laws can't be made "worded" with the express intentions of a religion. Also, the judges interpretation can be called into question and he cane be removed but that's only if people agree to do such
I'm scared to look at serious consequences this will bring such as child labor getting more unregulated like during first industrial revolution. Imagine those same people talking about how kids nowdays "don't have childhood" like they used to do while looking at them working at factory with shitty living condition 24/7.
I hear ya but my point was in Canada a federal overrules any Provincial law, ie. Marijuana wasnt legal at all anywhere in Canada until Ottawa made it legal everywhere in Canada. States have the last say in America the power share is - States 51%- Federal 49% with courts backing that up until an Amendment to the Constitution is made. @@biohazardlnfS
My son had massive attendance issues his senior year. I was a solo mom who had to work day shift so it was near impossible to get him there. It didn’t help that the principal and some of the staff was horrible and would bully/intimidate him. They spent his last two years trying to convince him to talk me into letting him drop out (he graduated at 17 and is very smart) but they damn near broke my boy. Once he was out of school he got himself together and is doing well now. But I wasn’t sure if I was going to survive his last years of high school. It was literally hell on us.
Boho, some wish to go to school, and your son's old enough to stop acting like a kid and see that his behavior is affecting you too. I hated school, and my mom really hated it, but I had no other option because when you live in poverty, you can't afford to do stupid shit.
@@osvaldomena1568it wasn’t her kid’s fault, she stated that she worked during the day so getting him to school probably conflicted with both of their schedules. some jobs won’t allow you to change your availability like that.
@@osvaldomena1568 he was not old enough at the time. He was also in classes for developmental delays but you, much like many, just throw out judgements without facts. I had no choice in my work hours. We all did our best. He went and graduated, but is was sad to watch him suffer at the hands of the adults who were entrusted to care for him. The point was that sometimes it is bad parenting, bad kids, bad schools, and sometimes it is just a combination of it all. Unfortunately, single parenting is the norm and the world just hasn’t adjusted yet. In my opinion.
@@yungchungus thank you for being a good person and standing up. It is pointless to argue with some people, but it truly is heart warming to see others do stand up against people like that. 🩵
I live in Iowa, and as a teenager I was missing school a bunch due to bullying and trouble at home, and I was put on an “attendance contract”. One morning I got in an accident and was late, but they didn’t care. They said it was still a violation because I was late. They outright threatened that my mom would go to jail if I didn’t enroll myself into a youth treatment facility voluntarily for troubled kids. I spent 8 months there.
The segment on student truancy struck a real, deep chord with me. In Feb 2007 my dad died of a heart attack, I just turned 10 in Dec 2006 (4th grade). I won't go into too many details (that's for my therapist), but long story short I was severely depressed and quite frankly sick of school. I hated the routine at the time and I just wanted to stay home. Looking back on it now I think I needed more than a week (that's how long my mom took me out of school) to grieve and process. Not to mention there were kids at school that made dark jokes about dead dads. One girl even confronted me on the black top playground saying that she didn't even need a week when her dad died. The bullying didn't get any better when I went to middle school, but that was more so of because I went to two middle schools. One for 7th grade and the other for 8th. Thankfully I had awesome teachers and counselors who visited my house when I was determined to stay home to try and coax me into coming to school. At one point I even had a dedicated person (I think a college student? I can't remember) take me to school and then take me back home so I could get used to the environment without getting overwhelmed. I did have a truancy officer and I did eventually go in front of a judge who presented me with two options: Go to school or go to juvie. I was terrified of the thought of juvie so I went with the option I was familiar with. In addition to that I also had a probation officer (I'm 90% sure it's probation, depression has fucked with my memory) that I had to check in with every now and then and had to let know when I was going out of state. I got my act together and was able to graduate with my class in 2015. I can only speak from my experience but I will say that punishing the *parents* for not being able to get their kids to school is just. Wrong. Unless the parent is actively preventing their child from going to school then they shouldn't be persecuted. Think about it from my mom's perspective in 2007: Her husband just died and now she has two depressed children. She was doing her best with the cards she was given. I know I wasn't helping my situation by being how I was, but I also think I'm blameless. My whole world had shattered in a single day and it took me *years* to recover and rediscover myself. I know school is important but what's more important (at least to me) was to let a child *heal* and instead the school labelled me a truant. They knew my situation. But it felt like they didn't care most times. I think I would've healed sooner if I was allowed to go back to school in my own time instead of forcing me to go through routine and do schoolwork when nothing felt like it mattered. Oh and none of the bullying was ever addressed either. I was always told "the squeaky wheel gets the oil" and I would stare at the teachers like they were insane. They did their best but. I still hold a lot of resentment. I don't know what they would or could have done but I know my mental health suffered as a result. I'm doing well now, I have a furry baby that is a pain in my ass but I love her. I've almost graduated college with an AA degree in general studies and I'm going to get my web design certificate in the winter! (That's the plan anyway). Thank you for reading my long ramble!
As a creator, I'm terrified of AI. If it took 10 people to make a graphic novel over, the passion of an artist, writer, editor, etc poured into a perfectly crafted book will now be replaced by Ai, something we're already seeing. With the number of layoffs we've seen just since January, jobs being replaced by AI; people that thought they had a career now being told "Pivot to something else, we can do your job with AI" is going to ruin the lives of so many people. There is no adapting or pivoting. We need regulations YESTERDAY.
Levels of celebrity-ness has always existed, we had our a-list vs d-list celebrities long before the influencer/content creator introduction. Prior to TikTok, RUclips and instagram the looked down upon "lesser" celebrity was the 'reality star' over that of actors and artists. This new rift of tiktokers being seen as the lesser celebrity is just the new iteration of that. We saw RUclipsrs and streamers get put into the same bucket that tiktokers are now at one point and what happened was a gradual acceptance of their stardom and recognition that the top top RUclipsrs of the day were as much a celebrity and some even then where accepted into mainstream celebrity careers. With TikTok I'm sure we'll see that same development over the next couple years where the top tiktokers with significant influence will be accepted into general stardom.
For added context about just how awful as a person (and what a danger to society) Jodi Hildebrandt is: the prosecutor said she has demonstrated zero remorse and on top of that during jailhouse phone calls that she knew were recorded she said that _she_ was the victim and the *children* were to blame. Absolute psycho monster. Throw away the key.
I also missed a lot of school due to bullying, undiagnosed ADHD and the depression/anxiety that comes with all of those. The psychology teacher who was my head of year told me that she didn’t understand why I wasn’t turning in my assignments because she has had students who were mental inpatients who did better. I was bullied by teachers in and outside of school there and was made and example of BY NAME to other students in my classes on what a bad student was.
That psychologist needs to get fired. Like my depression/anxiety went under the rug for so long because I presented mature, meanwhile I never did my work. As an adult I struggled to move past my “brick wall” and it took nearly 4 years to learn maintain a clean home. Psychologist should be working with you by figuring out strategies your brain hasn’t considered. Also they named a student??? That goes against so many privacy policies from Hippa to regular student confidentiality.
@@Sonicsis I don’t think she was an actual psychologist -I hope she isn’t-she just taught it for the international baccalaureate. And I was the one named as an example of a bad student. An ex classmate told me the entire department had done that. I’m in Australia so HIPPA is a bit different and i probably didn’t have a course of action against them in part due to lack of solid evidence
There needs to be laws requiring AI generated images / video to be watermarked as being AI (even if it's an invisible watermark, so that it can be used in commercial applications), and have stiff penalties, including jail time, for creating unwatermarked AI content.
As a parent in Missouri, our state is continuing down a bad road. We got a letter from school last semester that if our daughter missed 1 more day they would do a truancy check. She had some extra sick days but the rest were her going on a trip to see her grandma and cousins. Each of those days counted against her even though she did virtual class work while gone. Families are being punished for even wanting to do family things.
Apparently in Alabama if you J.O. you’re making the French phrase for “completion” true (La petit mort), as Alabama courts probably see your lil swimmers as “a little death.” ☠️
I'm a new 3D artist and I've just graduated with a degree in animation, but I work as a video editor. This AI news is terrifying to me. While it currently won't replace animators and editors, I don't think it's far off. When it gets better, what do I do? Will I have to go back to college to learn something entirely new? I'm hoping I can keep doing what I love for work, but day by day, I feel less confident in that.
High school was 10 years ago for me. I had a lot of issues getting to school on time. Due to not living within the bus routes and my parents not getting me on there. The first year, they missed it completely .at the end of the year they called me in and told me it couldn't happen again. No detention, no suspension, nothing. Year two it got even worse with my parents keeping me home frequently or having me miss the first few periods. Still nothing happened. At the end of the year, they pulled me into the office and said I'd get expelled if it happened again the next year. That was enough to convince my parents to put me in homeschooling. I dropped out the next year.
a big part of the AI situation that scares me as an artist is corporate greed. how am i supposed to compete with a robot who will do what i do for free? again and again companies have shown that artistic merit, intent, even quality does not matter to them.
The missed school days actually really infuriates me cause I found out very recently that the time I got pneumonia in 2009 and missed like 2 weeks straight because of it apparently my school tried to get my mother in serious legal trouble because of it and they were considering taking me away from home. It took my mother going into a full on rage and the help of my young sister to translate, because we are Hispanic (shocker) so my mother counselor speak English well, and several days of fighting with the school and local government to get my situation sorted. Not only does it infuriate me to find out that they were targeting my mother for something that was out of control and that I had a VALID excuse for not attending school, but the fact that if I hadn’t had a sister that could’ve translated for my mother that they could’ve got away with bullying her and possibly have me removed from my family. It infuriates me even more too knowing damn well that my Hispanic mother NEVER let me or my sister miss school. For her to let us do us would always require something very very serious. The way schools and local governments are allowed to operate like this is DISGUSTING
Having a family member translate instead of an actual translator is soo illegal. What they did to your family was illegal. They need to have a licensed translator regardless of language.
Truancy: I am 37 now. Throughout my school years I was bullied a lot. My first grade teacher would grab my arm and leave bruises on me and I had nightmares due to it. I would often miss school from both sickness and not wanting to go because kids were mean. When I was 12 my father passed from suicide caused by leukemia issues. I took it extremely hard and started missing more school and when not missing school I was often covered in bruises, particularly my thighs, from the other children. This was WELL documented, to the point I knew each school's counselor well and had one tell me off the record to hit back. In 7th grade we went on Christmas break and I just didn't come back, they passed me to 8th grade. My test scores were always 90+ but again, 8th grade I did the same and they still passed me. My mother, worried about me went to the school for help so they decided to bring charges against me and my mother. Granted they tried decently to give me accommodations but I was undiagnosed autistic, depressed, antisocial, anxious... Just before I would have turned 16 and been able to drop out, they changed the age in NY to 17 and made an example of me. They took me away from my home, put me in a children's home with children who bullied me even more with no place to escape them, forced me on antidepressants that now have the "not for children 18 or under" warning, CHARGED my mother $500+ a month AND took my death benefits of close to $700 from my father's passing, barely providing more than very basics for me (one glass of milk per day per meal, one small OJ glass in the AM, only water afterwards, etc. "bought" me a Single pair of jeans from their little warehouse because I was larger than most and that's the only pair that fit me, two shirts, over a YEAR of being there) and left me with permanent nightmares that I still dream about now... It was BS and I am practically agoraphobic now, no job, living with but taking care of my mother, and when she passes I'm screwed. I will have nothing. Truancy in the US is BS and the only thing worse is those that get to say they're homeschooling their children and those children get absolutely no education.
natasha, i know my words of sympathy can't do anything to erase your past traumas just know, that i hate what these "adult children" have done to you throughout your life, especially when you were an _actual_ child, extra-vulnerable (and people want to act all mystified when some of us 'act out,' and take 1 - 5,000 people downwith us as if they can't grasp the basic root causes of the tragedy)
While I'm sorry that you've lived a difficult life up to this point; it is never an excuse to give up. These difficulties should be pushing you up and forward to succeed after a grieving point. You need to look at yourself and say: "Life has been so painful for me, but I WANT to succeed, and I'm going to". Once you've lost the will to keep living; you don't deserve to anymore. There are hundreds of millions of humans in situations way worse than yours, and they still try every day. Either accept these words of mine as reality, or follow in the path of your father. That is TRULY the only two options you have, so pick one.
I truly didn't think I would write something like this. When you said Navalny was dead it hit me in the stomach. I'd seen the news but hearing you say it made it feel real. I had absolutely no connection with this man, but from afar he was a dream dreamt. His sheer audacity and bravery in the face of such a powerful force was just downright inspiring. He was one of the good ones.
As a Canadian I had no idea that you could go to juvie for missing school. That's insane. Especially with how it seems there is a school shooting in the news almost every day. I dropped out of school five separate times as a kid and transfered schools multiple times just from my mental health being so poor and depression along with all the bullying. I can't imagine the fear of being in a school shooting on top of all that. I'm surprised kids are even still going to school. I would expect some sort of student strike after all this violence. Until change is made or something like that. I feel so much sympathy for the current generation and what they have to go through at such a young and impressionable age. My heart hurts for you
This whole school absence situation is a mess. We live in an area where the school is really “old-school” when it comes to child psychology. The school counselor doesn’t even have a degree! My 7 year old daughter had 3 different weeks where she was really sick so school wasn’t even an option. We’re talking vomiting, strep throat, and Covid. After all of this, she started to develop crippling anxiety whenever we tried to leave the house. She would hyperventilate, and cry so hard that she would vomit. We were working with a therapist to figure it all out but the school was not willing to work with us at all. They said “you need to just send her and she’ll learn to tough it out. “ I was furious. I talked to the school counselor and she said the same thing. I’m homeschooling her this year and her entire demeanor and confidence has returned to what it should be for a 7 year old. But here’s the thing. Most kids don’t have a parent who is able to give up working to homeschool them. We are very lucky that my child has two parents in the home so one can work, and one can devote all of their time to their child’s education. How is that fair for the other 99% of kids and parents who don’t have those luxuries. The public school system is a mess. Teachers are overworked and severely underpaid so they are miserable and take it out on the students. And out of all of this, the students are suffering and punished for it.
For me, i was a drug addict at 16 with a widowed mom who had to work. She couldn't take off time to ensure i went to high school. When she was sent a threat to prosecute her for truancy, she had to ask me to make a choice. Drop out or go to school every day. I obviously couldn't go to school everyday as i was addicted and needed treatment. The school offered nothing to help with me. Either show up or drop out. I dropped out with all A's. Also the whole football team failed for heroin but were kept on because it was most of the football team.
Let me get this straight in the state of Alabama if I were a frozen embryo for 10 years before birth, I would legally be eligible to drink alcohol at 11. After all, I was technically a person for 10 years before being inseminated. Can we use our frozen embryos as dependents being that they are people? At what point can we apply for a Social Security number for our frozen embryo?
One student my mentor teacher had was chronically absent due to his mother keeping him home regularly. She reached out to her multiple times, but nothing changed. After I left that school, she was arrested for child neglect. The poor kid had trouble reading, doing math and couldnt even zip up his own coat without needing assistance. I hope now hes actually getting the education he deserves.
As someone who had an ectopic pregnancy these laws are getting scarier and scarier. What is going to happen to women in Alabama who end up in a similar situation where their pregnancy is nonviable, ivf or not? Regardless of how much I grieved due to my loss, it wasn’t viable and wasn’t a person. Women deserve to keep their autonomy. And I understand suing because someone else caused harm either by accident or on purpose but this is just insane…
That was attempted back in November. It didn't go very well. The corporate/market forces at play (and the cult of personality among the employees at the company) reacted quite negatively to that course of action. Even taking OpenAI out of the question, everything in AI is full steam ahead, no brakes. This seems top be the course we're bound to, and I see no realistic way of that not being the case. All us normal ppl can do is watch and experience this history unfold before or eyes. All for the worse or better. I'm actually more concerned for keeping things closed access and proprietary because of how much more that amplifies those in power's unequal ability to leverage manufactured consent.
Honestly I see this as a new opportunity for creativity to flourish. No more gatekeeping by the major studios and publishers when all you need is an idea, and the technology can bring it to life. Not all of it perfectly, not yet, but figuring out how to polish something pretty solid is a lot easier then starting from scratch.
@@kingofhearts3185 you haven't realistically thought this through very well then. There's not going to be some kind of utopia achieved by the use of AI.
@@himan12345678 Utopia is joke or a delusion, and I'm pretty cynical. I wouldn't even call it revolutionary. Individual people can make a lot as is, plenty of indie games and youtubers in the last decade prove that point, Stardew Valley being one of the most successful examples. This can help with that.
I think it would be important if Philip talked about KOSA and how that has the chance to limit discussions about LGBTQ+ abortion issues on the internet.
In regards to TikTok "celebrities", I imagine the main reason people dislike them being compared with the usual kinds stem from the fact that a lot of prior celebrities rose to fame through hard work and years of schooling, training, and effort towards perfecting their arts. Then you get some kids and slightly older kids making it big by throwing minute long videos at an algorithm designed to put your content in front of as many people as possible. Only to then start acting as if they're some sort of untouchable superstar for having a decent following of preteen's with brain rot who'll forget about you as soon as their iPad dies.
What ever happened to “separation of church and state”? We can’t have judges use religious reasonings in court rulings before people begin to be charged by breaking the law of the Bible and not the law of the land.
Right wing justices don't care. They love to push their beliefs on everyone else and hold us to standards they don't hold themselves to. It's sickening.
theyve already straight up said they dont care. they WANT a "christian" government. sure most of them dont even follow the actual religious teachings, and theyre also the same people that HATE non christian governments cause terrorism or something. but hey. hypocrisy is a skill theyve long since mastered.
Literally but we’re in the end game y’all. Stay safe lol
We're talkin about a state that's part of the bible belt. They'll use religion for anything, even to do evil
All the people freaked out about Sharia law are the ones trying to implement it.
So if one of those fertility clinics shuts down, technically those embryos should become a ward of the state. Which would mean the Alabama Child Protective Services would have to be called in order to take custody (conservatorship) of those "children". Which would also mean that the funding to keep those embryos "alive" would fall solely on the taxpayers and Federal funding as well. So basically the people of Alabama may end up paying for an embryo maintenance facility which I cannot imagine would be cheap.
They should just do away with IVF treatments in Alabama. If they want to vote for people who believe God’s plan never involved abortions, then they should also not believe in IVF, as that spits in the face of God, who clearly intended a couple to adopt a child instead.
Yeah watchbthat happen when clothier tax money goes to take care of them. They will make a loop hole to make sure that doesn't happen
If corporations are people then they wouldn't be able to actually hold any humans accountable 😂
I used to joke about forced pregnancy being on Conservatives' bucket lists, but now I am not really joking. :/
Maybe then, they would adopt out the embryos similar to a child. If it's more cost effective, that sounds like a win.
The fact that having a miscarriage could be considered as committing homicide will lead to an incredibly large amount of emotional trauma for someone on top of the trauma from miscarrying. At this point it feels like having a period might become illegal in some states.
This is paranoiac fear mongering. Show one person claiming miscarrying is murder.
Were headed back to women needing to leave town during those times.
But now it's state.
Wasn't a woman who miscarried charged with having an abortion?
What about children who die of fatal defects within hours/days of birth? Is that the next step to get more extreme?
People are going to be quiet until they’re past miscarriage age in a pregnancy if it’s going to be like this. It’s insane.
@@steviewonder417 if abortion is murder, miscarrying is manslaughter. one is done on purpose, the other is done by accident. this isnt fearmongering. these are the rules according to the criminal justice system that folks who want to take away women's rights want to apply on all women and girls.
Regarding the supreme court’s ruling, So if I have a frozen IVF embryo (just as example) , am I allowed to claim them as dependents on taxes? They said they have the same rights children right?….
yoo imagine the opposite too, imagine going to jail for masturbating lol
Imagine a guy working at a sperm bank who drops a bunch of sperm on accident. Not only would that be an icky mess but now he's got like a thousand life sentences to deal with. Sounds pretty goofy to me.
@@Animated341 there's a difference between sperm and a fertilized egg
But I agree. The whole thing is ridiculous
If you have an 18 year old IVF embryo, can it vote?
This isn't the gotcha people think it is. If you have family members in other countries that you support you can't claim them as dependents on your taxes either. Doesn't mean they aren't people. Personhood and having a social security number and being in the tax system are not the same thing.
About that embryo story, I have so many questions. Frozen embryos sometimes don't survive the process for reasons outside the providers control. So does that mean the clinic could get charged with criminal neglect or could a couple who freeze their embryos be charged with child endangerment?
And what about abandoned embryo's that are donated for study? And what do we do with abandoned embryo's? Do clinics have to keep them in storage? If they do, does the state have to compensate them the cost of maintenance? Does that count as having a dependent? Can clinic workers write off the embryo's for a child tax credit?
I got a whole list of these.
All of this!
Reminds me of that suv episode where a couple stole embryos believing they are alive I believe one of them the man was shot by a windowed husband who froze his late wife's embryos
If the power goes out can the local electric company be charged with murder?
What's really crazy is that embryos are NOT guaranteed to be a viable full term pregnancy. The doctors even tell would-be parents this as they go through the process of IVF...
I may be way off here since I’m dumb in this matter but isn’t this preconception? Without that life would never start.
Im a child abuse survivor, one of the worst abuse instances was when I became "truant" at my high school. The highschool refused the doctors notes I provided, which was the start of me learning about my disability that has made me wheelchair bound. In their opinion I was "using the doctors to escape school" but I legitimately couldn't get to school because I couldn't walk and didn't have a wheelchair yet. My mom almost killed me she beat me so badly. And from that point forward I no longer cared about school because they had joined my mother as abusers in my life.
That’s such a massive failure on part of what were supposed to be caregivers. So sorry you had to suffer like that.
holy cow, that’s horrifying. i hope you’re doing better now…
You just gave words to a feeling I have had for a long time
The school and the church joined in as abusers, refusing to aid me.
I am productive and happy today, no thanks to those institutions
I'm so sorry it seems as tho society has failed you. I hope you're in a much better place away from horrible people like this.
God that's fucking disgusting, i hope you're doing better now
As someone currently working in an IVF clinic and training to be an embryologist (in the UK), the Alabama law just screams of legislation that has been made by people who have no clue what we do in our labs
Loss of embryos is part of the normal treatment proces as not every fertilised egg makes a good embryo. At the end of the treatment, we will dispose of these as they have no chance of creating a viable pregnancy. Would this disposal of non-viable embryos be considered child murder? Or inappropriate disposal of a body, seen as how the embryos is effectively dead anyways?
In addition, disposal of unused viable embryos from our cryostorage is an almost daily occurrence. Patients will decide to consent to this for many reasons, including their family being complete. In Alabama, would couples be forced to have these unwanted embryos implanted, or forced to continue paying the storage fees for the rest of their life? And if the couples die before their embryos are used, are they expected to make provisions for the embryos in their will (like one would do if you had a minor child) as you can't just "kill" the embryos when the parents die?
And in cases where couples separate, will they be forced to fight for custody over frozen embryos and pay "child support" in the form of continued storage fees?
All-in-all this legislation has been made by people who have no clue how the IVF process works, and what it entails. If I was an embryologist in Alabama, I would be leaving the state and going to a place where actual science, not God, informs the legislation
They don't care what you do. They just care their brainlet followers who do nothing to better the world or people around them can feel like righteous godly saviors protecting kids, even though they are directly contributing to harming kids and families. Conservatives now only operate on optics. Cultures wars for us, funneling of wealth and power for them. Nowhere in that transaction is there rational thinking.
Yes you would be on the hook and yes these people are ignorant morons who do not understand the separation of church and state.
"Would this disposal of non-viable embryos be considered child murder?"
If it is, then "God" is the biggest abortionist in existence, since half of all pregnancies end up with a miscarriage anyway.
They know. They want to stop IVF. They want to punish anyone who doesn't use every embryo.
Maybe we should not be commercializing human life, and not only religious people are tired of it. Many in the feminist movement are moving to ban the female exploitation side of the business going after surrogacy and trying to teach women that they are complete without having a biological child, starting with lesbian couples. When you say "actual Science" you really mean "profit" from people's insecurities and exploit societal norms to make money. Science tells you how to freeze embryos, how to implant them etc, and how to maximize couples' chances, it says nothing about the moral and economic questions. The share scale shows capitalism is in control. So yes, maybe the legislators have funny reasons, but enough is enough with the commercialization of everything (including personal data). People need to regulate for-profit/for-power/ for-war science before we discover the answer to the Fermi paradox or become totally utilitarian around human lives.
Air Canada did the same thing to my wife and I when my sister in law died while we were on our honeymoon.
I called Air Canada to get an earlier flight home as soon as we heard. We told the AC rep exactly what happened and how we needed to get home ASAP... not only did she not tell us about the bereavement fare, but she refused to reschedule or refund our original return flights and the only thing she had to offer us were price gouged tickets and advised us "next time" we should buy the more expensive tickets so we can change our flight.
I found out about bereavement fare after the fact and similarly, Air Canada said it cannot be honored retroactively. Another issue is that bereavement fare requires you reach out via email, wait to maybe get a code and then book your flight. Loss happens suddenly and there won't always be time to get proof and wait for the discount code.
Wanted to share as this is not just an Air Canada AI bot problem, it's a problem with Air Canada as a whole.
I have a Masters in Writing, and three times in the last two weeks I have gotten calls from companies wanting to hire me to train their AI to write. They say it will only take six months and after they won't need me anymore. They are asking me to teach the thing that is going to replace me. And they think I will do it for $23 an hour. They are wanting to get truly desperate people who need the money to help put themselves out of work in the near future. It is horrifying.
I keep seeing jobs for bogus AI training schemes and I'm willing to bet a lot of them are rug pulls too or jobs where you have to do a "2 week-1 month probation period unpaid" or something and they never intend to keep their new hires on and they'll just burn through cycles of college grads looking to pad their CV's and get experience so they don't even have to pay for labour. Always sets off alarm bells when I see these job ads that have no closing date on applications because you know they're just labour farms, it's a revolving-door type of job, no one actually gets in, it's all "probation periods" or getting you to work unpaid until you wise up and leave (in which case, the next person to get scammed steps in)
That's the late capitalist race to the bottom for ya! Maximum output for minimum costs will eventually result in nobody having a job. It's stupid. My aunt works for *redacted* and makes bank. She is one of I believe 8 people in North America with her particular skillset and combination of degrees, and same thing. *multiple* companies have tried headhunting her for a very similar kind of thing, ultimately to train her eventual replacement in the industry-and they were offering her half of what she makes currently. The writing on the walls is written in blood and people are just watching it drip.
A masters in writing and they really only offered 23 per hour for temporary work?? That just feel insulting
As long as you were actually getting paid, you could have used chatGPT and kicked off the AI cannibalization
I guess we have to start advocating for an UBI earlier than expected!
If you have 10 embryos in storage does that mean you get to claim 10 dependents?
I'm claiming millions of dependents - just need a sperm count test to verify 👍
Life insurance as Well!
God I would love it if someone would argue that in court. It would be hilarious
This is brilliant!
Excellent question!
The entire Alabama embryo ruling will be solved in one simple question: can you claim the stored embryos as a dependent for tax purposes?
😂 you should be the president
Are these embryos truant from school? Can the clinic sue its clients for child support?? Are they getting older, and if so, will they eventually be able to vote???
Wow, the exact situation with Air Canada happened to my wife and I last year. Her father passed away suddenly and we needed a flight to BC, Reached out about their bereavement fare and was told to reach out after. Then told we should have beforehand. Thank you for reporting on this story Phil. Air Canada trying to dodge this is so on brand for them it's WILD.
I'm 45yrs old, and I still carry the trauma of being put through the court system because of excessive absences. They threatened my mother with jail, threatened me with juvenile hall, forced me into "truancy rehabilitation programs" that were basically child labor for the county, and we were treated like criminals.
Not one social worker, truant officer, court official, guidance counselor, or school administrator wanted to really listen about the daily abuse I had been enduring at school every day. It wasn't just insults, other kids were stealing things from me, hurting me if I talked back with hard pinching or snapping pencils on my arms or face. I could go on and on. Most of the teachers and admins treated me like I was being annoying if I reported, and I was told "Nobody likes a tattletale" more than once. I had ONE empathetic teacher who advocated for me (whose kindness I've never forgotten), but her words in my defense fell upon deaf ears.
I tried really hard to "suck it up", but finally I cracked and couldn't face going anymore. I stayed home for months, so the Florida court system came for us and just added more trauma on top of trauma.
I was not a bad kid, my academics were just fine, but I was treated like a criminal. It saddens and angers me beyond description to hear that kids are still facing these sorts of consequences 30yrs later, especially because I know firsthand that schools have not gotten much better in terms of properly caring for kids who face daily abuse from their peers.
The majority of kids who fall into truancy need understanding, patience, and HELP. Threats and punishment just make everything 100x worse, and our kids deserve better.
To many people are victims of "time or place" in a different school or decades later your whole experience would have been drastically different. Thank you for sharing
I am so sorry you went through that. I went to school in FLA. Most of the teachers and administrators did not care. The student population was volatile, and so many were new or moving back to somewhere. If you found a friend they were likely gone in months or no longer your friend. I was very lucky. I found MCJROTC. It saved me. I don't think I would have made it with out Top Master Gunnery Sargent Harrison.
I never had words to explain what I went through bc it's such a jagged area in my mind, but they did the same thing to me verbatim when I got bullied starting middle school in 09, I'm still suffering and can barely be in public now with out masking as I'm on the spectrum and it's really all I know how to be anymore
Yup. My parents were threatened with truancy when I kept skipping school because I was being tortured by bullies everyday. Of course the school never cared about any of that, just the fact that I wasn’t attending school.
The assistant principal took a special interest in me & would start calling my mom directly every time he noticed I wasn’t in class. He was such an asshole. But I’ll never forget my art teacher who moved heaven & earth to help me move out of her class when she noticed a group of girls bullying me. The only admin that ever stood up for me.
Plus what were my parents supposed to do?! They were at WORK every day. It’s not like they could physically stop me from just leaving school once I got there lol
The fear of this is ultimately what made me keep facing the abuse I was subjected to in the mid-2000s during school. I didn't want to get my mom in trouble, and I didn't want it either. It was a living nightmare.
Regarding the AL IVF case:
This is precisely why the forefathers wanted separation between church and state, because laws based off religious belief only create division since we are supposed to be a melting pot of cultures and beliefs.
or because some religious people are fuccin crackheads.
A handful of years ago my aunt retired from an IVF center. The person or people that had taken over turned off the temperature safety alarm on some refrigeration units and were closed for the weekend. Upon returning to work, they realized some 4k embryos and eggs were destroyed because the refrigeration had malfunctioned and they were never alerted to it. Extremely negligent. There were lawsuits and large payouts in the millions for the families affected. This is why these centers have insurance. There is no reason to label an embryo as a child. Religious greed and trying to oppress poor people by making healthcare even harder to afford, and harder to receive.
"You murdered 4000 kids!"
-Alabama Court
@@henryzellman Non American here does Alabama have the death penalty because I think they would go for that if it was 4000 Embryos which in their eyes is 4000 dead humans. Crazy!
@@Krivvet you need some serious help. You have a very delusional and skewed view of reality. Emotions don't change reality. I've seen people emotionally attached to a frickin' broom. Embryo's are not children. Anybody that thinks otherwise needs some serious counseling. Having children or not having children is no more significant or important than any other thing in this world.
@@Krivvet Yeah, no. An embryo has the same claim to personhood as bacteria in my stomach. Get over your personal emotions and think rationally.
@@Krivvet Then they are treated as extensions of the medical care of the WOMAN to whom they where taken from. Like ANY type of medical abuse or malpractice. If is about justice for the woman that is paramount. They are not children. No. Not even close. Religion has zero place in a legal argument also.
I'm actually from Missouri, grew up in one school district and now work at another in a non-teaching role. The one I currently work at is, and this is key, more affluent than the one I grew up in. As a kid, I super remember single moms and miniority students suddenly disappearing and someone would be like "oh they transferred to *other district* because they live with their grandparents now" or something else because their parents would get arrested for truancy, which wasn't even their fault. It took my grade in high school starting a local "after school daycare" that would bus elementary students over to the high school to care for them, for some change to happen because a really well-liked girl was in charge of her 7 siblings and her now divorced mom, who left due to DV, was being threatened with jail time for the truancy of her siblings. So much truancy disappeared for so many little ones with just a simple after school daycare and a few really cool teachers.
Now I work at the affluent district. Kids miss all the time for hunting season, Disney trips, hockey games, daytime Cardinal games, parades, events, St. Patricks Day is essentially an unofficial day off around here. Not a single person cares. Kids get back and the absence is totally excused and seen as an "educational enhancer" because, like, those kinda things are. Some things can't be taught in a classroom and I'm so glad these kids have those opportunities, don't get me wrong, but god damn can we please lay off the poor and minority groups that are just struggling to get by, living paycheck to paycheck with nothing left over for "proper" childcare. They do not deserve to be punished for barely getting by while the affluent kids can go to Disney. Those poor/minority kids in underfunded schools will probably never even think about going to Disney.
As usual a lot of the problems in the US are because of wealth inequality. Your society seems to always exhaust all forms of punishment before deciding to finally adress the root causes... I really hope things improve.
Kids missing a week to go to disney world or hunting is not the same as missing 18+ days because the parents don't care. I would like to see a grade comparison to kids missing because they went hunting vs kids missing 3+ weeks of school . This is whats wrong with society, people like you who want to excuse bad parents. My wife teaches in a poor school district and I can tell you there are plenty of parents who don't care, they may keep their kids at home so they can babysit their younger kids because these lazy non working parents don't want to deal with them.
If you cant feed them, don't breed them.
@@ManCatCheese I've been all over the world and that tends to happen everywhere. Even in Europe, though they have more social safety nets.
But yeah, it will differ from school to school and educator to educator. Depends on how willing the principal/SI is willing to work with the family to get their kid to school in situations of lack of resources(i.e. a single parent who can't get off work).
Many times it's simply a parent who works too much and can't supervise their kid all the time, so the kid skips school because overworked mom/dad doesn't have the time to enforce the rules all the time. And they want to punish the parents... Daycare that is accessible and affordable would go a long way into fixing things like this.
putting parent in jail for truancy is disgusting. Help parents out if needed, but jail helps neither the parent or the child. If you put the parents in jail, they will just take out their child from school entirely and choose home schooling.
@@ryanthompson591 A lot of parents simply dont care about their kids. Hard to know what to do for those many cases.
With the abortion situation, gotta love that separation of church and state. The whole situation is really insane, so frozen embryos should be on the same level as infants? Like in an emergency frozen embryo and crying baby are the same legally.
If a frozen embryo is a baby, then male masturbation - the sperm - should also be babies. Cause you can't have an embryo without sperm .
I'm waiting for the time someone sues a doctor for trying to treat a tapeworm infection. There's not much separating an embryo and a tapeworm on a functional level.
Does that mean the clinic can charge room and board for the embryos? Or babysitter/nanny fees?
I understand we fundamentally disagree buut, if I may just point out, it's human DNA from the start, so the essence of human nature resides in those yet-to-be-developped-to-full-grown-babies
@@raybacon1759 it's a good thing Americans have such inexpensive medical bills, riiiight?
The story about kids missing school definitely hit home for me. I'm not a kid now, but as a kid I missed A LOT of school. I remember the principle berating me about my attendance saying how oh we have kids here who are dying from cancer and wont live to see graduation yet they are here, what is so bad in your life that you can't be here? It wasn't until much later in life that I had the answer, I was fighting PTSD because of all the nightmares I had to live. When that's all you know, it seems normal even if it's not even remotely normal, so I couldn't give an answer that should have been obvious to every adult. I faced extreme bullying both in school and outside of school. One such event outside of school was my primary bully leading me into the woods pinning me to a tree holding a knife to my throat, then he asked me if I had any last words because I was going to die right here right now. I was afraid to speak out at the time, and every time I had spoken out prior it got ignored or teachers told me this didn't happen and if it did it was your fault and you deserved it no one ever listened to me.
I share this just in hopes that people pay more attention to mental health and the struggles kids face. No one should have to live through what I lived through, and I don't want to see anyone going through anything like that.
Wtf?!! What happened to that bully? I hope eventually they got put away, this story is something out of a stephen king novel.
I relate to this so much 😭 I wasn't physically bullied but the mean comments damn near never stopped and I was so depressed and had undiagnosed BPD and add. Always felt like I was dumb cause it was hard for me to focus at a slow pace for the whole class and had so many emotions that I didn't know how to release that made me never wanna leave my house. I always turned in my homework but missed so many days. A lotta time I would ditch cause I'd get a bad anxiety attack walking in. My poor mom got called into school district court twice over it and the second time they were so mean. Threatened my mom with jail and straight up called me a dramatic liar 😭
OMG I'm so sorry this happened to you, hopefully things are better now, I have so many friends that are teachers and they talk as if they're all kids of theirs. They wouldn't tolerate anything like that. I know that's not all teachers but bullying can't ever be tolerated.
I was bullied too and spent a few years considering ending things myself but decided it wasn't something I was capable of and that just depressed me more because I was resigned to just being stuck....
“Frozen embryos are children” is like saying eggs are just really under cooked chicken. I am from & currently live in Alabama & this scares me. Thankfully I have friends in the pacific & Canadian northwest whose couches I could possibly sleep on if I ever needed.
Edited for context: I honestly believe that this is just a weird loophole for people who may possibly need abortions. The fact that it’s Alabama, of all places, they of course would absolutely try to make things more complicated for a woman, whether they want a baby/child or not. It’s all about control over women’s bodies.
@@SimpleDimple0u0 The literal question of life.
I agree Alabama is stupid. But an egg is unfertilized, an embryo is fertilized.
We know these people are crazy, but misrepresenting them won’t help them admit they’re wrong.
@@SimpleDimple0u0 I feel like you are not seeing the problem. Fetuses in a test tube have more rights than the people who carry them in their own bodies, their homes. Their souls.
@@SimpleDimple0u0 I can take one of your skin cells and grow an entire new person who isn't you. At what point does it become that person?
I’m also from Alabama and this has me just ashamed for how asinine this all is. No one has the right to my body but me. Not the state, not my family, just me. This is why if I were to start a family, I’d move out of this state. It’s a lost cause at this point.
I had issues with "chronic absenteeism". I would miss two days a month because of my crippling menstrual cramps and my mother being unwilling to put me on birth control. I was a straight A student and it never affected my grades, but the school wanted to hold me back. I eventually got on birth control, stopped missing classes, and they didn't hold me back; but every kid's situation is different.
what a stupid school, a student already struggling for some, why not put even more obstacles in their way.
I had 10/10 cramps and went to school just fine. You have no excuse.
@wmdkitty I didn't know it was a contest. My condolences in regards to your menstrual cramps
Nah, you're missing the point. "Every kid's situation is different" is not true. MANY of the kids who are chronically absent boils down to poverty where the parents simply don't give a shit because they don't value school. You had a chronic medical condition which it should be pretty straight forward to get a note for (though I realize since pains vary so much person to person it can be hard for admins or nurses, etc. to understand, that is an additional complication). But you can't compare this to many many low income parents who don't give a shit, the kids got D's and F's, and they'll eventually drop out to perpetuate the cycle of being failures like their parents. Need to actually keep them in school if they're to have a chance of breaking out of that and doing something with their lives.
The judge in the Alabama IVF case should not only have his ruling overturned citing the 1st Amendment, but he should also be charged with practicing medicine without a license.
You should be protecting God’s children. You should stand by the judges and also ban jackin off. If they’re all truly men of god they will all unanimously agree
@@nekoluWhat planet do you live on?
@@nekoluplease god can't protect shit, why should I cover for the supposedly all powerful, all seeing and all knowing floating fuck in the sky?
@@nekolu I agree. God's children should be protected. And that judge has feigned his support to protect them. He should step down.
If an egg equals a child, then a male ejaculation equals child abandonment, Elle woods said it herself.
The embryo situation reminds me of the scene from legally blonde where Elle makes the argument that ejaculating is child abandonment/murder, for a class that she is in, to ultimately win the debate she is a part of. It's wild to see it potentially be a thing in real life though with different context.
I mean, even in that movie the whole ejaculation equals child. Abandonment was basically played for last. It makes it more depressing that people are taking that argument seriously. Of course, only when it involves women though.
They made that argument in Ally McBael too, I remember it because I saw it as a kid and thought it was so messed up to have it as some sort of moral point.
I was a chronically absent student as a teenager. I was diagnosed with a terminal form of dwarfism as a kid, and when I was 14 a clinical trial occurred for an infusion that ultimately, I still get once a week ,and it has saved my life. I had to miss school one day a week to go to the nearest hospital that was able to do it, an hour and a half away, and have a six hour infusion and then drive home. I'm from PA and had no idea why my parents were always making sure I got that doctor's note, I figured every person in the administration of my school knew about the trial and I would be fine. I forgot to get a Doctor's note one time and got a lunch detention. As a teenager that was doing something that literally saved my life, I cannot imagine if I forgot a Doctor's note 3 times and would be called Truant and be put in Juvenile Detention.
That’s an powerful story! But if you don’t mind me asking, how is dwarfism terminal? I’ve always understood it as a malformation of the bones/growth plates, but never as anything deadly in the slightest.
@@spaceboy4774 There are forms that are definitely more harmful than others, my particular form is called a lysosomal storage disorder, basically I lack an Enzyme in my blood that eats up extra sugars that come from muscle break down, so the sugar build up can cause swelling in my heart and lungs and other things make my breathing a struggle, I’m over 6 years beyond my life expectancy now
Was that hospital John’s Hopkins or Nemour’s? My partner also is from PA and had to go get infusions for her disability.
When I was in Highschool I was also chronically absent, I was on anti-epilepsy medicine which messed with me a lot but after my Father died when I was 15, I was super depressed (I still got issues from his death) and missed close to one day a week of school for not feeling well.
Luckily I grew up in Canada so I wasn't punished for it.
As a Canadian, I'm not surprised that Air Canada tried to get short change their customer over the chatbot. They would do anything to hold on to a few dollars.
It's very inappropriate of a judical court to be citing and "weaponizing" religious beliefs for interpretation of law and would warrant judicial disqualification... if we can even hold these standards
This is why I believe religion gets in the way of things.
It's just the Christian Taliban as usual.
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I know you don’t even know what you’re saying because you spelled warrant incorrectly, it’s not “warrent”
@@aodigital9421woah you really got him there with the grammar burn on the interwebs. what an ape 🤣
I’ve never understood punishing students with suspension for missing school. 🙄🙄😤😤 Makes no sense. Completely illogical.
Well at least they do that. In Mississippi, a child can pretty much threaten someone's life and never face any consequences.
At the middle school where I teach, truancy or skipping class is an in-school suspension, where the students just sit in a room and catch up on missed work.
Don't need logic it's America.
I miss to many days/was late to much in high school so they took my mom to court...causing me to miss 2 days.
I dont understand punishing the students at all because the punishment is already built in. You dont have the grades to pass? Take the grade over again. You dont have enough credits to graduate? You dont get your diploma. Most places won't even accept your application without a high school diploma or equivalent. Going into the adult world is punishment enough when you're unprepared like that. It teaches them real quick.
I'm not a lawyer, but there's a doctrine of Separation of Church and State in this country that bars the government from making any laws on the basis of religion, so wouldn't that Supreme Court case regarding IVF automatically be null and void for violating that doctrine by expressly sighting the Justice's religious views in the decision? It seems like this should be a pretty easy ruling to get overturned, assuming there's away for someone to challenge it.
Except that in the history of the United States, no politician has taken separation of church and state seriously. This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. We swear on Bibles, we have under God in our Pledge of Allegiance, and plenty of religious politicians push their beliefs onto the people. That’s nothing new. It is, however, really sad.
Unfortunately… there’s not “a doctrine”. It’s part of the first amendment. It’s basically just that the government can’t make an official religion of the country or favor one religion over another. Maybe you could somehow argue it’s favoring a religion over another. But that feels like a biiiiig stretch. Especially with the current Supreme Court.
@@brandonkennedy4160 Sadly, you're probably right. In fact, the "Under God" line wasn't originally in the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a law that added "Under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance, and he also made "In God we trust" the official U.S. motto. Unfortunately, people who are devoutly religious have a tendency to try and indoctrinate others, whether or not they do so with malicious intent.
@@violettefemme21 When I said it was a doctrine, I didn't mean it was a specific law, but rather how the Establishment clause in the First Amendment has been interpreted and enforced. Since the First Amendment prohibits the Government from establishing a national religion or enacting any laws that would provide preferential treatment to any one religion, the prevailing wisdom is to avoid bringing any religion into legal matters at all.
@@r.j.bedore9884 definitely a legal blunder and yes im born/razed LDS/Christian ( it would maybe have stayed if they/he'd left it as outside of the court/governmental room, said documentary or biography or personal journal or in private to friends or family, USA 🇺🇸 isn't purely Christians as atheists are part of the founding fathers and patrons/solders/sailers ect and compromise was definitely part of the process in 1750-1820~ ) but not hardcore if anything im borderline theistic and or pure-sciences and im pro-life and yes i like the general idea of being able to ( reasonably and or transfer/adoption ) pause pregnancy/due-date ( i understand viability's so there's a * for some but like elder/childhood abuse im not letting people off the hook, and advancement's will change the goal-post of what's possible vs 1880's or 1970 ect, also for LGBTQ 🏳🌈parents rights assumptions that there good people/parents like trad-parenting's-is aka everyone is = chance under uk 🇬🇧 or USA 🇺🇸 common-law ) and child's/baby's rights but the way that was written is poorly and maybe its undoing
My husband is active duty military and he was going on a year long deployment. We got that news very, very short notice!!! We only had a little over a month to prep. So we took three days off school and work for family time right before he left and one day off a weeks before, so four days total. Then two weeks after he left, we all got a pretty nasty case of COVID. Despite giving doctors’ notes, positive COVID tests and redacted copies of my husband’s deployment orders I got a nasty letter from my daughter’s junior high that CPS was going to be notified about her absences and she was going to be barred from school field trips because of the chronic absences. Meanwhile my son missed more school because COVID complications and having to see a specialist to determine how to treat his long-haul symptoms, his elementary school didn’t care. I called and talked to his principal and they were so understanding and supportive. My kids were in the same school district with the same rules of attendance but it was the principals that were causing the difference. My daughter’s junior high principal was removed from that position only after a year because of how she was treating students and families. The school board got lots of heat over her “leadership”.
TMI, learn to keep to yourself.
@@andrewellisonlee Stay out of the comments section if you can't handle someone else's story. You come up like a fidgety snowflake.
@andrewellisonlee did you watch the video? He asks people to comment their stories
@@andrewellisonleecringe comment
I dont think the other guy knows how to read@@lynn2591
The embryo story is so stupid. Like, can I have someone charged with wrongful death if I get kicked in the balls and prove my cell count dropped?
An embryo is a fertilized egg.
Not the same thing. Embryos are actual humans. Sperm on their own are not. Thems the facts.
Bahahahahaha. But also, very good point
I think the fact that it’s for people who lost the potential child, it’s fair.
HOWEVER, the law took it too far.
If that were the case then all your spunk would be considered homicide because you can't find a girl to get it on with.
One of my favorite stories is how there is a principal who put a little laundromat in the school so his kids can use them to wash their clothes and it significantly made his school’s attendance better
im sad that it comes to that but good on him, truly.;
Was it that guy who was on amazing race? The principal? Who installed like 9 washers and dryers and they'd leave the lights on of the school 24/7. I think I first that story on Ellen years ago and I love that so many others have followed suit.
It's so dystopian that that's a feel good story
@@chandradickinson3731 that's how other countries feel about the USA every time they say schools providing lunch is extremely important and often the most kids eat 😵 it's nightmare fuel if you think about it
I’m a teacher. I have a bunch of students who are absent in my first hour because they can’t get a ride to school and they live too far for the school bus or other school-provided-carpool services. Our school systems are failing our kids, and we don’t even have the budget to fix it.
The reason you have no budget is because you have administrators and politicians who have tied funding to attendance. Yes, schools are funded by a variable compensation model while having fixed costs. Knowing this the cost is transferred to kids who are a profit center or at least the cost recovery mechanism. Schools should be funded for an entire year at a time and have nothing to do with attendance. Teachers are punished for the idiocy and greed of those who are supposed to support them.
The same thing is happening in New Zealand atm. In term 2 & term 3 of last year only around 46-47% of kids attended school regularly.
schools should do better, but parents should do better too
Then they should just wake up and start going to school much earlier
School shouldn't even start as early as it does from a neuroscientific perspective. I don't blame kids for having trouble getting up.
I pulled my middle child from public school after repeated violations of his IEP and safety plan (he's on the spectrum). I enrolled him through the district's homeschooling department. A year later I get hit with truancy. I ended up having to go to court and show them the enrollment that the same district apparently didn't even look for, despite it being signed by the admin.
I guess I made the court look stupid because they made me come back 3 other times to 'prove' he was home schooled with progress reports and competed workbooks as 'evidence'.
I hate the school system. It's just as broken as the justice system!
its called the public school to prison pipeline for a reason.
Many children go neglected, but the courts don't help either way. It's not built to deal with the sensitive issues of children.
Oh btw the frozen embryo thing: my mother is today 63, she underwent IVF treatment in 1980 to attempt conceiving a child with the dna of my mother and father, which did not succeed, so they adopted me and my sister.
Last year she got called up by the fertility clinic, now this is Denmark so government run. Asking if they had her permission to attempt using her frozen eggs that apparently have been there for the last 40+ years, to see if 40+ years in cold storage had a negative impact in fertility rate, because while my mother had issues with the whole pregnancy aspect, the eggs did get fertilised, they just didn’t stick to uterine lining. Which my mother (a nurse) and my father (a doctor) were more than happy to donate the eggs for science, as my mother put it “I don’t need them anymore”
That would literally be considered child abuse. Oh the horror, my unborn siblings!
I’m fucking with you I don’t believe in life beginning at fertilisation, at first in the first trimester for the majority of the time that “baby” looks more like chunky marinara sauce, than a child, it doesn’t even have a developed brain or eyes for months, which is how you normally classify the difference between animal and plant-based life forms on earth
I'd read your biography!
Chunky marinara. I love that.
Next there gonna say that miscarriages are “Gross Negligence”
"...in gods image..."
As an Australian, I had no idea American truancy laws were so strict, especially for parents. I was a relatively unwell teenager and missed a lot of days in the later years of high school because of doctors appointments or just generally not feeling well enough to get out of bed. Not to mention days off for mental health reasons and “normal” sick days. I would have exceeded any limit pretty fast. But it’s not like I wasn’t trying or just missing school for the fun of it. When I missed days I made sure to keep up with my work and study. I still got As on tests and assignments even if I missed a few classes.
What these laws don’t seem to understand is the individual’s circumstances that would lead them to miss school and that in reality most kids don’t actually want to miss class/fall behind. By dealing with the problem through punishment (keeping children at home for LONGER??, taking parents to jail etc.) you’re only exacerbating the problem.
Yes, generally only affects the poor in the US as those are the ones with the lowest ability to work with this
Yeah its definitely one of those the punishment doesnt fit the crime.
I'm Australian too and my school was extremely strict about attendance. However, you could make up attendance by going to homework club (essentially after school detention).
Many time truancy isn't accurate. They just didn't want to put in the information or did it incorrectly. I used to go to school just to sit in the library. If you get marked as present in the morning and at last class nobody noticed that you missed everything else.
The embryo ruling makes my skin crawl. How much further is thos going to go? I live in New Zealand but the mindset seeps in down here too. My local hospital has a small but dedicated group of protesters scaring the few woman who do go into having to go further afield
I'm Canadian and have gone through an IVF cycle that resulted in a miscarriage. Even though it doesn't affect me directly, what's happening in the US scares me. It's stressful enough trying to have a child of your own when you don't know why it isn't working without outsiders trying to get involved. I feel for my American sisters and wish their governments would support the living rather than the potential of life.
This makes no sense. Literally none of
@danielrichardson6054 do you mean her comment?
ADOPT, selfish cow!
@@billwillson890 wat?
I work in a rural school district. One of the things that our district makes sure to do before taking kids to court is we have a FAC conference (Family and Community?). This is where community members get together with a parent and the family to help make sure any barriers, like getting to or from school, are taken care of before moving to truancy court. If the plan created at this conference is not followed, then the parents get taken to court. What this discussion is missing is this: Why is this the school's responsibility? So many government programs that most other developed countries have would solve a lot of this truancy. Accessible/affordable childcare, universal preschool, universal healthcare. Lack of infrastructure makes it difficult for students to walk, bike, or take public transit home. Lack of funding for districts causes students to have to pay for the bus. These are ridiculous! Students having to work because their family can't afford to live is also INSANE. Lack of workers' rights in the US makes it so difficult for people to demand more pay for their work without fear of retaliation. Wages remaining stagnant while the rich get richer is poison to our country. It's so disheartening being an educator in this space because there are parents that want to be involved and support their kids, but they have no ability to due to their financial situation.
The best part about truancy court..they freaking schedule it during the school day. Requiring you to add to your truancy score as well as demanding your parent miss work..only to be fined..it is this memory that has me unwilling to enter my own child into public school.
I had hoped I would avoid some of this by sending my step kid to a charter school. Turns out it's funding is stricter than the regular public schools......which has lead the school to having to lay off 4 teachers this year alone. Part of it has to do with the number of kids they have each day, and when the whole school basically caught the flu over the course of a month was then the last time 2 teachers were laid off. It's very frustrating not just for the kids, but also for the teachers. Schools need better funding that can't be misused......but no one wants higher taxes or oversight it seems.
In the case of frozen embryos being classified as Kids, I suggest that those who live in alabama, to look for all for the local governement supports and programs that are offered there, (if there are any). As if they are going to classify them as kids, get the tax benefits that normally come with it and other such programs.
Nicely pointed. When people come up with this bizarre ideas, there are always major loopholes in the their logic. Alabama sure is something else. Whenever I describe Alabama to my partner, who isn't so much in US culture/politics as me, her reactions are priceless. It takes a while for her to believe some of it, if you have a normal brain and live a normal life in a democratic country.
but then we’d have to give embryos social security numbers 💀 and they’d probably do it, too, just so a clump of cells can have more rights than all women
Too bad those embryos don't have social security numbers or birth certificates.
I saw a video the Billie situation from a Tiktoker who was there who said Billie had a bad off camera interaction with a different tiktoker at the carpet behind the scenes area. Apparently they started making a TikTok and had said or done something to cause Billie to stop, tell them off, and leave. At least how I understand it all is that Bills was talking about a specific TikToker
I’m glad that woman is in jail, with EVERYTHING they had as a family, to treat your children like they are criminals while collecting thousands of dollars from social media says a ton about how much she actually cared about her children.
But... But... They weren't living in truth.
I'm grateful Jodi got sentenced, too. Even with everything, she was somehow worse.
I wonder how the young ones are doing. Are they in foster care? With relatives?
Jesus I’m glad I read this full comment. 😂 I thought you were talking about the mom that went to jail for the truancy stuff and was about to be pissed. No that other monster should rot in jail though for what she did to those kids
Don't let people forget this situation. They're going to attempt to garner sympathy to earn a lesser sentence as the length of each one will be determined after the previous has ended.
My mom is a school counselor in a district where buses are required to service every single child. And they are still having issues with attendance. One particular case she told me about was a mom who they are sure is unhoused and is trying to drive her kids to the school 45 minutes away every day. There are closer schools but she decided she wants them to go to this one and is using a relatives address. And the people at the school including my mom just want her to be honest so they can get a bus to her so she doesn’t have to drive them every day. But for good reason she doesn’t trust that they won’t report her or will make her relocate her kids. It is very much a problem disproportionately affecting people along class lines.
I’ve been one of those parents. With school changing to magnet schools a lot will find anything to rezone you. It’s sad.
Yeah when it's a public school, you don't get the taxes of a person if they're not within district lines unless you pay tuition. A lot schools will bus an unhoused child to the same school for the rest of the school year and then they must transfer to a different district after that that is closer to where the person is residing. Schools have to be accountable and only get funding from those within the actual district (at the beginning each school year, called BEDS Day). You can also use McKinney vento to help them find temporary housing in a hotel or something. I'm a school counselor too and a few years ago we found out one of our kids was living in a tent on the side of a road with her mom who was in and out of rehab about 40 minutes away. We used McKinney vento services for the rest of year to get them a motel room and on the list for homeless housing (I don't remember the actual name, but it's like temporary apartments before they move you into permanent affordable apartments) and the girl was transferred to the new district at the end of the school year and they eventually got permanent housing. I've also had kids live in shacks in the middle of nowhere and plenty of other crazy situations their parents get them into (usually it's drugs or gambling, but a few times is was significant mental health/psychotic breaks where a parent would destroy an apartment (legit one pulled all the drywall off the beams and the carpet off the floor in a psychotic episode) and landlord would kick them out. It's sad when states who "ding" schools' funding based on dropout rates or truancy have NO idea the types of situations some kids grow up in. They're not just "numbers".
Social worker here: I used to work with families who struggled to get their children to school, typically due to issues of poverty (no child care, needing their older children to help raise younger children, illness - where it was easier to keep children at home all together when they’re sick). I find it that because this only affects the minority of students, it’s so easy to blame the parents vs. giving other solutions to help provide the children education when they’re missing out. We just came out of a pandemic where it proves we can educate in unplanned conditions. I’m sure systems can get creative to help engage kids in education.
The issue is that is yet MORE work to pile on teachers to try "Fix" things. It also means investing money in tools and resources to try and set up systems to deal with a divided education on individual bases. In other words money. Schools are already so creative they are freaking Vincent Van Gogh of budgets. This isn't a school problem. It is a poverty problem.
@@titheproven954 but that’s exactly the thing, it shouldn’t be up to teachers, their administrators and governments should be engaging in the issues. The poor stay poor, this is proven time and time again, and will stay that way until we are willing to spend money on the issues
As a therapist for children, adolescents, and adults in Mobile County, AL, I get a lot of kiddos who don't do well in a traditional school environment for usually the following three reasons. 1. There is a horrible bullying problem in our schools. 2. There are not enough of us therapist to provide the mental health care they really need nor the care parents need to support their children. 3. They are terrified of being murdered by a school shooter.
I often have to encourage any route to getting them a high school education be that an online program or a GED route if they are old enough and so behind they won't traditionally graduate until they are 20.
It's heartbreaking to often be some these kids only support and some of these parents only aid to even know what to do for there kids.
We 100% need more help as do teachers and parents.
In Legally Blonde they joke every-let's call it a pleasure session-is considered "wreckless abandonment." Since Alabama basically ruled you no longer need a heartbeat for personhood this could now be an actual argument in prosecution. The fact this joke defence from a movie/musical could now have actual legal merit in Alabama courts is insane.
Have you ever seen Idiocracy?
What happened to the separation of church and state? I swear that this is getting scary with how much the church is being able to effect the state. I am a Christian, who is liberal, and lives in a Blue/Purple state, but that IVF Embryo law in Alabama is terrifying! This is gonna spread like wildfire. I'm terrified for the future of women.
Seriously! I was just talking to my boyfriend about maybe moving to Europe or something when we can afford it cause it’s getting scary
American radicals export their belief worldwide, a la Poland, Ethiopia, Uganda, ETC ETC. The buck has to stop here, with us. But I understand wanting ducking away from it all, hopefully for us both, for good. @@GhouliePumpkin
I a guy and all I want is a vasectomy. If women can't have the freedom to determine what they want with their bodies, then I'll take he responsibility myself.
@@GhouliePumpkin move immediately. Republicans are showing signs of a possible genocide on all non-Christians within the next decade
😂😂😂, It's so hilarious to me that you think it's going to be better and Europe... I swear people in America have no idea what it's like in other countries.@@GhouliePumpkin
In middle school, I lost my home. My family and I had to move into a small RV because the housing market was so competitive and too much to afford for my family. This caused many brother and I to miss many days and fall behind in our classes. Instead of having any faculty reaching out to me, I was shamed for being a “lazy” student. I only had a meeting with one person who only asked if I had a shower then never met with me again. Other than that, I got no help, no transportation, no support through the traumatic experience. At the time, I believed it was my failure for missing school. As if, I wasn’t “strong” enough to push past all the trauma and barriers I was facing at 12 years old.
Now, I’m a junior in Uni getting a bachelor’s degree in forensic science. Despite that happening 10 years ago, I still struggle with that on a daily basis or I feel guilt sometimes for not being in class. I genuinely believe that my parents weren’t charged with truancy since we were legally homeless.
You seem like an awesome person. I feel like some adults have a hard time realizing that kids are people and some of the behaviors they don’t like are caused by trauma. The best way to help that is with care and a bit of help figuring things out
Being homeless, even for a short period, has lasting effects. Being in college isn't easy either. Hang in there, things will get better.
Currently there are 3.5 million homeless children in America on any given day. We can do a lot better for our children. It needs to be a priority.
Don't feel bad. Understand how it shapes you and use it to your advantage to take your courses more seriously. I'm the same way. I have so many regrets, but also I'm graduating this semester and got a mid six figure job offer with a nice company which is huge since among my friends I was very clearly the poorest one and still have panic attacks making back to back $60 purchases even with thousands in savings
Also, I had like 60 absences in my girst period in senior year mostly due to my ADHD messing with ability to sleep, but now I have a 4.0 in university where I can decide my own schedule and take things seriously
@@joshurlay haha $60 purchases...yep, just set your boundaries, know where you are comfortable, and be okay with it. Sounds like you're doing okay :)
We live in Anderson County. Our school gives parents 7 days of parent excuses. If you have 3 unexcused days or more than 7 parent excuses they start punishing. At 10 absences or 3 unexcused, they take you to court.
Our school also tells people that if they almost never approve absences unless they are sick or close family has died (for which you only get a few days). I will say our principal will personally call kids to wake them up if needed but these rules are still crazy.
One mom I spoke to had to travel to take care of their parents belongings and funeral and needed more than a few days. To get around absences Knox county suggested that they “independently homeschool”their children if they need more time to deal with a family death, then put them back in school when they are ready. (You can pull kids out and put them back anytime for homeschooling in TN.)
It looks better on the schools books if the kids are homeschooled for a few weeks than absent, but is it any better?
I remember 25 years ago (Not in TN but this really is a nationwide thing with schools.) when I was in highschool we had to get my doctor to write the school telling them I get migraines, i'm not lying and he refuses to see me and write a letter for me every time I have one as he has other patients and can't see me as often as 3x a week when it was really bad, and that mom's note will have to do.
One teacher tried to complain, so I went to his class with a migraine the next time, sat there hiding my face from the bright lights until he demanded i sit up and then threw up on his desk. He stopped demanding i show up with what he called "just headaches, get over it."
I wish I could say I was surprised that the schools haven't improved in 25 years.. But I'm not.
I love how alt-right states completely dismiss the fact that CONSTITUTIONALLY there should be separation between Church and State. And yet, here we are - clown car politics FTL!!
The moment I hear a politician utter "god" in an official statement, I completely dismiss them as insane.
In God we trust and the church isn't the state 🤦♂️. And most people can't have bear arms either so 😎
Yeah, I don't understand how it could be a legal statement if it includes the word God in it.
Alt-right* 🤓
@@joech1z Theists want there to be no separation
I was chronically absent from school. I was bullied a lot in high school. I would have kids all the time. Tell me to end my life. I got so depressed, I would eat lunch in the bathroom and I would skip school to go to the library. I learned so much from reading books from the library than I did in school. The only reason why I passed my classes is that I would just do all of my work in the library. I also had my disabled younger sister I had to take care of so it was hard going to school. I was going to school, taking care of my disabled sister and I had to work as well. I can't imagine what children are going through now these days
I'm sorry you had to go through that. You deserved so much better.
I missed a lot of school my senior year because my anxiety was so bad due to isolation from the bullying i received. Funny thing is i went to the school multiple times and cause there was never a physical altercation, just emotional bullying from previous female friends, there was nothing they can do.
I ate lunch in the bathroom when I was in grade 8 for being bullied so badly by girls & boys. One point missed a week straight trying to hide it from my Mother. Can only imagine how bad it could be now for kids with Social media.
You dropped this 👑 queen! Thank you for telling your story.
I missed school because I was sick all the time and they didn't count as excused absences because I didn't go to the doctor. My dad was a single dad who had to work because my mom died, and the doctors didn't know why I was sick all the time (stress. it was stress.) so my dad was supposed to take a day off work and pay a copay for the doctors to say idk go home and rest. I had good grades and did extracurriculars and it's a miracle I graduated. That was ten years ago (and I miraculously stopped getting sick after I left public school). Now I work with kids and they're all sick all the time. The public school teachers are extremely grateful whenever any parent keeps their kids home but the admins are furious and doing everything in their power to make parents bring their sick kids to school. I know teachers who are quitting after this year because they've been sick since August.
As an IVF baby, when I was implanted it was with three other embryos. I was the only one who took. They did that because, at least at the time, it was the only way to increase the odds enough that maybe one would attach (and it worked!) But in no universe do I considered those embryos my siblings, I am not a quadruplet, my family doesn’t mourn the three babies that never were. The idea that the doctors who made it happen, or even my parents, would be charged is infuriating, but now surprising. Unfortunately, I’ve always been aware of the crazies against IVF. A boy in middle school once told me I was destined for hell, because my existence (being an IVF baby) was unholy - and I’ll never forget back in high school, Mitt Romney choosing a running mate who was against IVF.
I can't even *fathom* the mentality that IVF babies are somehow... Not human? Unholy? Like, the egg and sperm still met and created life, it just took a slightly different route to increase the chances of actual implantation and successful gestation. I always heard the term "test tube baby" in high school and it was like, ok but these babies weren't actually grown in a test tube and then handed over to their parents. That makes no sense. I think religion breeds a lot of stigmatism towards science, and when emotions are involved it just gets so much worse. It's almost like people want to go back to the dark ages where the church was in charge and had an ironclad grip on the masses, and science would get you killed or permanently locked in your house.
The Republican party isn't pro life. It's pro prosecution and private prisons
My thoughts on Billie Elish is this: We don't know the whole context of the conversation and that's a major problem we see with all these short video clips everywhere. There is no context, no conversation. And that's what I appreciate about you, Phillip...you do your best to create a conversation about all these things.
I heard this hypothesis years ago and is rings truer today:
You are in a medical facility that has catches fire. In a room is a young, crying child and canister of 500 embryos. You can only save one. Which do you choose?
Obviously the child. No amount of Dna material should be more important than an actual child. It’s crazy this is even a question.
I’m a pediatric medical provider and was just speaking to patients today about how ridiculous truancy laws are if the kid has a doctor’s note. I’m actually in Texas where the State can’t jail parents but, at least according to my families, the district can impose punishment.
This has been a BRUTAL cold and flu season since the return from winter break and many of my patients parents are worried their kids are not medically healthy because they’ve been sick 3 or 4 times in the past few months.
And we have no solid plans to address kids with chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses, kids with migraines or under treated anxiety. There’s no clear answer, but if even half the energy of enforcing truancy laws was put towards getting kids mental health help it would go a long way.
Yes! My son is in his first year of school and he's missed 10+ days so far this year because hes been SICK. It's like every other week he comes down with something. We follow the schools sick policy and send him if he doesn't have a fever/vomiting and is not so ill that he wouldn't pay attention but even then he has missed a lot of days. Its so frustrating that I could possibly go to jail for FOLLOWING POLICY.
@cameoburress8160 same with my kid. He was a micro-preemie and gets sick easily. I'll end up having to unenroll him and attempt home schooling (which idk if I want to do) out of necessity. It sucks.
Texas teacher here. YES! I can totally agree with this. Especially with ill students! On the other hand, I have had students attending class that are terribly and visibly sick (no fever b/c Advil or Tylenol) because they can't AFFORD to miss another day of school, much less go to the doctor for a note.
15 days in six months!!holyvcrap. That's a spate day. Good for you l. Idiot.
I have a chronic illness and I've been out for months of my life, I have long covid and I've been at home for weeks. If there wasn't as much understanding, I'd be in big trouble.
Also, what I would complain about for my school is that being more than five minutes late is the same as being absent for the full 45 minutes.
as someone in the film industry, im scared shitless. just look back a year and how we all said; "this will take at least a couple years to get close to real life". well, we're here now and it's scary, not only how real it looks but the scariest thing is the lack of rules and regulations that are (what seems like 10 years) behind.
yes the accessibility will get easier, but still like daddy phill always says, its the worst it'll be today
its scary but also so cool!!!! I cant wait till we can make a super cool movie at home
@@tezzymezzy2190 you can already do that without ai. people have done it for years
@@tezzymezzy2190 as much as I understand the excited sentiment around this in concept, I don't understand how you wouldn't see the overwhelming negative to come from a video generation model that good at making near indiscernible footage that is released to the public. For every cool video you will ever create someone will create revenge porn of their ex, false footage of government bodies or just creating footage that isn't real without ever telling you if it is or isn't. That should concern you so much more than the ability to make a soulless film through writing some sentences.
@@polygollie You'd call it soulless just because someone can't draw or use blender themselves? Just dismissing it all with no regard for the idea itself?
You sound like the people that called the first cameras soulless machines that couldn't match a skilled painter.
i wouldn't worry just yet. One, studios likely can't hold any copyright over the content produced because it needs to be made by a human, and two, while it might look good, there is no way to actually edit this stuff. Actual company's won't find this stuff too useful for quite a long time if ever. Maybe for some short shots, but it's far too limited as it is now.
These companies might have to even delete their programs in the future if it is decided the content they used to develop it was considered stolen.
Was a "truant" student in middle and high school.
I had unexplained at the time severe pain from my uterine conditions that were absolutely debilitating, and not just on my period !I couldn't even get off the couch a good chunk of the time! On top of that, in highschool I had a breast cancer scare, but thankfully the tumor was deemed benign after the biopsy!
I still managed to pull off mostly A's in my classes..
I was diagnosed with endometriosis, but the birth controls (estrogen type) made things much worse! This may he in part due to my factor 5 leiden, which was contraindicated
I found out after graduation that I have two uteruses and cervixes. That explained a lot.
My family would've been even more unstable if either of my parents were prosecuted !
They want kids in classrooms then defund school programs that help keep kids in classrooms. ALL while questioning why the single parent struggles to keep the kid at school. My youngest child graduated in 2020. I cannot tell you how much more stressed I was in dealing with school than I should have been at 40+. Single parents should not be getting it from both ends just to barely survive but here we are.
I dealt with truancy issues in high school (c/o 2013) and both my mom and I nearly got in trouble for it. The threat of it added additional unneeded stress during an already difficult time. I was diagnosed with several autoimmune diseases my junior year. I nearly lost my vision and had to start life-long immunosuppressants. I was guaranteed to miss at least a day every week just going to appointments. Despite thorough communication with the school about what was going on my absence was still considered truancy. I felt so guilty for getting my mom in trouble. School went from being a place of comfort to a source of shame for me. It's really sad to know things haven't changed in the last decade.
Whomever handled your attendance was an ass.
There is hope in some districts in some states. Those are "excused" absences and if it ever became too much missed school where you were behind, they'd get you a tutor to help supplement. We're a public school and rural with a huge low income population but our admin and faculty are top notch in helping kids not stress about missing school for medical stuff or appointments (we legit had a kid who had open heart surgery and had to miss two days each week to travel 8 hours round trip to a major city to get checked out and blood tests and stuff for 6 weeks after the surgery and then monthly before his healing got so good he only had to go every two months) but he'd be exhausted after the journey that he'd often sleep through classes the day back in school because of the strain of the tests on his body). We were accommodating but so many schools wouldn't be.
@@HouseMDaddict That is really reassuring! It’s good to know there are school districts doing better by their students. And I’m happy to hear his recovery ended up going so well! I can’t imagine having open heart surgery now, let alone as a child.
As someone who was an unpaid intern for school social work, the social workers are trying their hardest to help these students but they don't have the resources! The school district I was at will give so much money for sports but can't allow for another social worker to be added to staff because that would cost too much (The district had 3 social workers for 10 buildings of students of all ages) It also doesn't help that they see attendance being an issue but only see it as a money issue because the schools get money for attendance but don't want to "waste the time" going for the root causes...
Public education really needs a revamp but I don't think it's going to happen because that would mean actually disecting issues rather than brushing them off.
I dropped out of High School after having a 25% attendance rate in middle school. I had anxiety, depression and undiagnosed autism+severe ADHD. I was also bullied by my peers. Most days I couldn't get out of bed. I'd lie awake and cry at night and convince myself to get up in the morning and then when the alarm rang I would just roll over and be non-responsive. My parents cried, begging me to get up and at least eat some breakfast but I'd just ignore them (they couldn't stay either because they needed to work). We went to see multiple doctors, begged for medications or treatment or even a screening for mental illness but they all wrote it off and I wouldn't get diagnosed and medicated until I was 25. I felt so much shame and guilt for putting my parents through that, I couldn't imagine what life would have become if any of us had been punished any further for it. I ended up getting my diploma online as an adult (my mom financially supported me during those times) and I eventually went to university to get a degree in fire safety engineering.
We were reported multiple times to CPS and we had meetings with them but the cases were dropped. We had extra meetings with counsellors and teachers and even special ed but they all basically told me to just try harder.
I was a kid that loved learning too, I've always done really well on tests and I love math! But there were just no resources available for me to attend school. The thought of my mom spending time in jail or having a criminal record is so upsetting, I would've never recovered from that and defintively wouldn't have been able to finish my education.
Honestly... Never missed a day!!@@billwillson890
Frozen embryos being considered children under Alabama law is terrifying. The fertility industry is severely lacking in federal regulation and legal protections for those using fertility services and donor conceived children. Holding people responsible for the wellbeing of frozen embryos as if they were children opens up a whole terrifying can of worms.
So does that mean the embryos themself qualify for health insurance? Also if they require the same rights and protection how can an embryo be denied LIFE INSURANCE? This ruling seems very risky!
They will not enforce rules that logically follow from their conclusion. Its the hypocrisy at the core of conservatism, its how the declaration of independance had the balls to say every man deserved to be free with slavery being a thing
move to Alabama
buy life insurance for dozens of embryos
store them at a facility with the worst track record
embryos perish at the facility's fault
get DOZENS of life insurance payouts
skedaddle!
Okay, but can you take out life insurance policies on the frozen embryos? If the answer is no those insurance companies need to be sued. I’m sure the insurance companies will have their lobbyists have this issue fixed real quick.
I was thinking along similar lines, but in regards to things like the power grid. Who would take the blame when a power outage or the like resulted any of the embryos becoming nonviable? Or if a tornado or hurricane caused the same, would that be ruled "The Will of God!" or would they try to string up the construction company for not making the building strong enough?
sure im fine with life insurance for baby's/embryo's but there's the next new problem with that, look at payouts for dead-SO's and kill-motives ect and fraudulent activity ect so it would be better to limit it from happening
Uh… I had/have a ton of health issues and I missed so many classes/days of school. This is insane. I would have been in doctor’s offices for every little thing and that’s too expensive. Most of my issues are chronic and have persisted into adulthood. I am now on legal disabilities- but that wasn’t an avenue open when I was a kid. Criminalizing the student or parent is disgusting. You don’t know someone’s life. I don’t mind gentle intervention like making sure there is no abuse etc but parents need to be able to advocate for children who should also be allowed to speak for themselves.
The other point to add about AI, this is the ones that companies are showing us. Think about what tech other companies are making but are not displaying to the public. I worked with a financial tech company working on using AI to replace auditors. Think of all the other sectors that want to remove 90% of their workforce.
Lol you’re going to hate it when the working class have all the power because they’re the only ones AI hasn’t replaced.
@@steviewonder417 What's going to happen to all of these professions freaking out about AI is the same thing that happened to every other profession that got hit with industrialization. All this is replacing is the mediocre 'good enough' jobs with automation. There's still going to be specialists, there's going to be people who are so good that AI won't replace them, and there's going to be local examples that people are going to buy.
I mean, people still buy hand crafted wooden furniture despite having factories that churn them out.
ai isnt that impressive. it still has its limitations.
Alabama resident, the fact that the justices used their religion as their legal opinion is absolutely disgusting. The US has freedom of religion for a reason. Blending religion and law together is extremely dangerous and is EXACTLY what our nation's founding fathers were trying to escape from.
It has always surprised me when people make the statement that the US was founded as a christian country, even though it was the exact opposite
@@zebra1327 Want to read something scary? Look up the "7 Mountain Mandate".
All the evidence to prove the wisdom of separation of church and state can be found in countries that don't. The middle east and India are full of such examples where enforced religious doctrine stifles human potential.
Strange that the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice should have a fear of the wrath of God when it comes to the destruction of a frozen embryo while at the same time Alabama has the death penalty.
What did you expect It’s christianity The entire religion is built on hypocrisy
Modern Christians' first rule is hypocrisy, didn't you know? /sarcasm
@@MsBELLE7 that’s exactly what I said?
@@MsBELLE7 I’m guessing it got deleted because I didn’t add /sarcasm?
@@LachlanJeffreyDrew haha oh that's so great, I love that we said the same thing lol
I hadn't seen your response but I like the way you think!
Listening to the story on kids missing school gave me whiplash. As a kid I had a lot of mental health issues, had me in therapy at 4, and even them being On Top of trying to figure out what was wrong with me, when it grew to a point of agoraphobia, I ended up in truancy court, with a probation officer and community service hours before an age I could've been legally hired for the retal space they had me serve those hours.
My kid's school district threatened us with truancy last year despite 1. he'd been absent due to covid and rsv, 2. I'd called him out every single morning as required by their policy *and* had gotten doctor's notes to cover the missing days, and 3. he was only 4 years old and not covered by truancy laws. At no point was I contacted by the school to express their concerns- did we need help getting him to school? was there a financial problem? something they could help with?-, just got a form letter in my son's backpack on a random Thursday in April. Turns out the district had sent them to *every* student with more than 5 absences, regardless of their being excused or applicable.
The whole system is stupid and needs a massive overhaul.
No, just get your kid to class and stop making excuses.
@@wmdkittyget a kid to class while they're literally sick and have a doctors note? Lol, what? If you think we should be sending sick kids to class then you're part of the problem.
@@doctormoobbc I think it was a joke
Makes you wonder if the push to getting children to class is actually for the welfare of the child
I hate the excused/unexcused nonsense. All it is teaching is that you are supposed to have one of their reasons why you can miss. Which is to teach people later in life, to be good little workers, and never call out. If my kid is having a bad day, why would I send them to school to have the teacher deal with that and they are probably not going to learn anything anyways. Noting the absences and reaching out with information and resources to help parents is all that matters. Thinking a stick is going to fix all the worlds problems is asinine.
Alabama horror story of a ruling makes me so glad am Canadian ! In our country the provinces can NOT over rule federal laws, so if Ottawa says no religion in any law then no province could do what Alabama has done. I always shake my head when I hear that life starts at conception and those same people don't want a social safety net to help those children ....hypocrites
The State laws in the US do not overule Federal Laws its literally the same. However, he can use religion in his " interpretation " of what the Law says just not in the "creation" of the law because religion is allowed to influence how we think as people in the US simply because of the freedom of religion. However, laws can't be made "worded" with the express intentions of a religion. Also, the judges interpretation can be called into question and he cane be removed but that's only if people agree to do such
Uhh, have you seen the notwithstanding clause?
Plus Poilievre is one of Putin's lackeys.
@@Dexter037S4 You don't know a damn thing if you think that, Russian puppet has been diluted into a generic political slur.
I'm scared to look at serious consequences this will bring such as child labor getting more unregulated like during first industrial revolution.
Imagine those same people talking about how kids nowdays "don't have childhood" like they used to do while looking at them working at factory with shitty living condition 24/7.
I hear ya but my point was in Canada a federal overrules any Provincial law, ie. Marijuana wasnt legal at all anywhere in Canada until Ottawa made it legal everywhere in Canada. States have the last say in America the power share is - States 51%- Federal 49% with courts backing that up until an Amendment to the Constitution is made. @@biohazardlnfS
My son had massive attendance issues his senior year. I was a solo mom who had to work day shift so it was near impossible to get him there. It didn’t help that the principal and some of the staff was horrible and would bully/intimidate him. They spent his last two years trying to convince him to talk me into letting him drop out (he graduated at 17 and is very smart) but they damn near broke my boy. Once he was out of school he got himself together and is doing well now. But I wasn’t sure if I was going to survive his last years of high school. It was literally hell on us.
Boho, some wish to go to school, and your son's old enough to stop acting like a kid and see that his behavior is affecting you too. I hated school, and my mom really hated it, but I had no other option because when you live in poverty, you can't afford to do stupid shit.
Privileged Americans always want others to fix their issues for them.
@@osvaldomena1568it wasn’t her kid’s fault, she stated that she worked during the day so getting him to school probably conflicted with both of their schedules. some jobs won’t allow you to change your availability like that.
@@osvaldomena1568 he was not old enough at the time. He was also in classes for developmental delays but you, much like many, just throw out judgements without facts. I had no choice in my work hours. We all did our best. He went and graduated, but is was sad to watch him suffer at the hands of the adults who were entrusted to care for him. The point was that sometimes it is bad parenting, bad kids, bad schools, and sometimes it is just a combination of it all. Unfortunately, single parenting is the norm and the world just hasn’t adjusted yet. In my opinion.
@@yungchungus thank you for being a good person and standing up. It is pointless to argue with some people, but it truly is heart warming to see others do stand up against people like that. 🩵
I live in Iowa, and as a teenager I was missing school a bunch due to bullying and trouble at home, and I was put on an “attendance contract”. One morning I got in an accident and was late, but they didn’t care. They said it was still a violation because I was late. They outright threatened that my mom would go to jail if I didn’t enroll myself into a youth treatment facility voluntarily for troubled kids. I spent 8 months there.
That is so twisted. I'm so sorry. The public school system sucks and is only getting worse..
american moment, what the fuck.
The segment on student truancy struck a real, deep chord with me. In Feb 2007 my dad died of a heart attack, I just turned 10 in Dec 2006 (4th grade). I won't go into too many details (that's for my therapist), but long story short I was severely depressed and quite frankly sick of school. I hated the routine at the time and I just wanted to stay home. Looking back on it now I think I needed more than a week (that's how long my mom took me out of school) to grieve and process. Not to mention there were kids at school that made dark jokes about dead dads. One girl even confronted me on the black top playground saying that she didn't even need a week when her dad died. The bullying didn't get any better when I went to middle school, but that was more so of because I went to two middle schools. One for 7th grade and the other for 8th. Thankfully I had awesome teachers and counselors who visited my house when I was determined to stay home to try and coax me into coming to school. At one point I even had a dedicated person (I think a college student? I can't remember) take me to school and then take me back home so I could get used to the environment without getting overwhelmed.
I did have a truancy officer and I did eventually go in front of a judge who presented me with two options: Go to school or go to juvie. I was terrified of the thought of juvie so I went with the option I was familiar with. In addition to that I also had a probation officer (I'm 90% sure it's probation, depression has fucked with my memory) that I had to check in with every now and then and had to let know when I was going out of state.
I got my act together and was able to graduate with my class in 2015. I can only speak from my experience but I will say that punishing the *parents* for not being able to get their kids to school is just. Wrong. Unless the parent is actively preventing their child from going to school then they shouldn't be persecuted.
Think about it from my mom's perspective in 2007: Her husband just died and now she has two depressed children. She was doing her best with the cards she was given. I know I wasn't helping my situation by being how I was, but I also think I'm blameless. My whole world had shattered in a single day and it took me *years* to recover and rediscover myself. I know school is important but what's more important (at least to me) was to let a child *heal* and instead the school labelled me a truant. They knew my situation. But it felt like they didn't care most times.
I think I would've healed sooner if I was allowed to go back to school in my own time instead of forcing me to go through routine and do schoolwork when nothing felt like it mattered.
Oh and none of the bullying was ever addressed either. I was always told "the squeaky wheel gets the oil" and I would stare at the teachers like they were insane. They did their best but. I still hold a lot of resentment. I don't know what they would or could have done but I know my mental health suffered as a result.
I'm doing well now, I have a furry baby that is a pain in my ass but I love her. I've almost graduated college with an AA degree in general studies and I'm going to get my web design certificate in the winter! (That's the plan anyway). Thank you for reading my long ramble!
As a creator, I'm terrified of AI. If it took 10 people to make a graphic novel over, the passion of an artist, writer, editor, etc poured into a perfectly crafted book will now be replaced by Ai, something we're already seeing. With the number of layoffs we've seen just since January, jobs being replaced by AI; people that thought they had a career now being told "Pivot to something else, we can do your job with AI" is going to ruin the lives of so many people. There is no adapting or pivoting. We need regulations YESTERDAY.
There is no separation of church and state if you can quote the Bible in lawmaking. This is DEEPLY concerning.
Thank you for your comment!! I completely agree
Levels of celebrity-ness has always existed, we had our a-list vs d-list celebrities long before the influencer/content creator introduction. Prior to TikTok, RUclips and instagram the looked down upon "lesser" celebrity was the 'reality star' over that of actors and artists. This new rift of tiktokers being seen as the lesser celebrity is just the new iteration of that. We saw RUclipsrs and streamers get put into the same bucket that tiktokers are now at one point and what happened was a gradual acceptance of their stardom and recognition that the top top RUclipsrs of the day were as much a celebrity and some even then where accepted into mainstream celebrity careers. With TikTok I'm sure we'll see that same development over the next couple years where the top tiktokers with significant influence will be accepted into general stardom.
For added context about just how awful as a person (and what a danger to society) Jodi Hildebrandt is: the prosecutor said she has demonstrated zero remorse and on top of that during jailhouse phone calls that she knew were recorded she said that _she_ was the victim and the *children* were to blame.
Absolute psycho monster. Throw away the key.
Do you have a source on this? Hard to find specifics like this myself since there is a lot of coverage of the verdict and such right now
@@mattkeflowersI watched a stream of the sentencing itself on Emily D. Baker's channel.
I also missed a lot of school due to bullying, undiagnosed ADHD and the depression/anxiety that comes with all of those. The psychology teacher who was my head of year told me that she didn’t understand why I wasn’t turning in my assignments because she has had students who were mental inpatients who did better. I was bullied by teachers in and outside of school there and was made and example of BY NAME to other students in my classes on what a bad student was.
That psychologist needs to get fired. Like my depression/anxiety went under the rug for so long because I presented mature, meanwhile I never did my work. As an adult I struggled to move past my “brick wall” and it took nearly 4 years to learn maintain a clean home. Psychologist should be working with you by figuring out strategies your brain hasn’t considered. Also they named a student??? That goes against so many privacy policies from Hippa to regular student confidentiality.
@@Sonicsis I don’t think she was an actual psychologist -I hope she isn’t-she just taught it for the international baccalaureate.
And I was the one named as an example of a bad student. An ex classmate told me the entire department had done that. I’m in Australia so HIPPA is a bit different and i probably didn’t have a course of action against them in part due to lack of solid evidence
There needs to be laws requiring AI generated images / video to be watermarked as being AI (even if it's an invisible watermark, so that it can be used in commercial applications), and have stiff penalties, including jail time, for creating unwatermarked AI content.
Definitely since AI will soon be used to generate things like revenge p*rn.
I second this
There are already apps and websites dedicated to scanning content for ai just google it
So I change a few things and remove the water mark, now it’s mine. GG
As a parent in Missouri, our state is continuing down a bad road.
We got a letter from school last semester that if our daughter missed 1 more day they would do a truancy check. She had some extra sick days but the rest were her going on a trip to see her grandma and cousins. Each of those days counted against her even though she did virtual class work while gone. Families are being punished for even wanting to do family things.
Because they lose tax money. They dont care about your kid they care about the money
Apparently in Alabama if you J.O. you’re making the French phrase for “completion” true (La petit mort), as Alabama courts probably see your lil swimmers as “a little death.” ☠️
All the socks are graveyards
So does that mean sperm are also kids? So….everytime I beat my shmeat that’s genocide?
@@jajajasputin8927 graveyard? It’s a nuclear holocaust in there. The sock is frozen solid from nuclear spunk winter.
I'm a new 3D artist and I've just graduated with a degree in animation, but I work as a video editor. This AI news is terrifying to me. While it currently won't replace animators and editors, I don't think it's far off. When it gets better, what do I do? Will I have to go back to college to learn something entirely new? I'm hoping I can keep doing what I love for work, but day by day, I feel less confident in that.
Figure out how to work with AI in your art in unique ways.
High school was 10 years ago for me. I had a lot of issues getting to school on time. Due to not living within the bus routes and my parents not getting me on there. The first year, they missed it completely .at the end of the year they called me in and told me it couldn't happen again. No detention, no suspension, nothing.
Year two it got even worse with my parents keeping me home frequently or having me miss the first few periods. Still nothing happened. At the end of the year, they pulled me into the office and said I'd get expelled if it happened again the next year.
That was enough to convince my parents to put me in homeschooling.
I dropped out the next year.
a big part of the AI situation that scares me as an artist is corporate greed. how am i supposed to compete with a robot who will do what i do for free? again and again companies have shown that artistic merit, intent, even quality does not matter to them.
The missed school days actually really infuriates me cause I found out very recently that the time I got pneumonia in 2009 and missed like 2 weeks straight because of it apparently my school tried to get my mother in serious legal trouble because of it and they were considering taking me away from home. It took my mother going into a full on rage and the help of my young sister to translate, because we are Hispanic (shocker) so my mother counselor speak English well, and several days of fighting with the school and local government to get my situation sorted. Not only does it infuriate me to find out that they were targeting my mother for something that was out of control and that I had a VALID excuse for not attending school, but the fact that if I hadn’t had a sister that could’ve translated for my mother that they could’ve got away with bullying her and possibly have me removed from my family. It infuriates me even more too knowing damn well that my Hispanic mother NEVER let me or my sister miss school. For her to let us do us would always require something very very serious. The way schools and local governments are allowed to operate like this is DISGUSTING
Having a family member translate instead of an actual translator is soo illegal. What they did to your family was illegal. They need to have a licensed translator regardless of language.
Truancy: I am 37 now. Throughout my school years I was bullied a lot. My first grade teacher would grab my arm and leave bruises on me and I had nightmares due to it. I would often miss school from both sickness and not wanting to go because kids were mean. When I was 12 my father passed from suicide caused by leukemia issues. I took it extremely hard and started missing more school and when not missing school I was often covered in bruises, particularly my thighs, from the other children. This was WELL documented, to the point I knew each school's counselor well and had one tell me off the record to hit back. In 7th grade we went on Christmas break and I just didn't come back, they passed me to 8th grade. My test scores were always 90+ but again, 8th grade I did the same and they still passed me. My mother, worried about me went to the school for help so they decided to bring charges against me and my mother. Granted they tried decently to give me accommodations but I was undiagnosed autistic, depressed, antisocial, anxious... Just before I would have turned 16 and been able to drop out, they changed the age in NY to 17 and made an example of me. They took me away from my home, put me in a children's home with children who bullied me even more with no place to escape them, forced me on antidepressants that now have the "not for children 18 or under" warning, CHARGED my mother $500+ a month AND took my death benefits of close to $700 from my father's passing, barely providing more than very basics for me (one glass of milk per day per meal, one small OJ glass in the AM, only water afterwards, etc. "bought" me a Single pair of jeans from their little warehouse because I was larger than most and that's the only pair that fit me, two shirts, over a YEAR of being there) and left me with permanent nightmares that I still dream about now... It was BS and I am practically agoraphobic now, no job, living with but taking care of my mother, and when she passes I'm screwed. I will have nothing. Truancy in the US is BS and the only thing worse is those that get to say they're homeschooling their children and those children get absolutely no education.
natasha, i know my words of sympathy can't do anything to erase your past traumas
just know, that i hate what these "adult children" have done to you throughout your life,
especially when you were an _actual_ child, extra-vulnerable
(and people want to act all mystified when some of us 'act out,' and take 1 - 5,000 people downwith us
as if they can't grasp the basic root causes of the tragedy)
That is fucking heartbreaking man, so sorry to hear that.
While I'm sorry that you've lived a difficult life up to this point; it is never an excuse to give up. These difficulties should be pushing you up and forward to succeed after a grieving point. You need to look at yourself and say: "Life has been so painful for me, but I WANT to succeed, and I'm going to". Once you've lost the will to keep living; you don't deserve to anymore. There are hundreds of millions of humans in situations way worse than yours, and they still try every day. Either accept these words of mine as reality, or follow in the path of your father. That is TRULY the only two options you have, so pick one.
Praying 🙏 for you to have a better future
@@sarteronjeez, super tough love
I truly didn't think I would write something like this.
When you said Navalny was dead it hit me in the stomach. I'd seen the news but hearing you say it made it feel real. I had absolutely no connection with this man, but from afar he was a dream dreamt. His sheer audacity and bravery in the face of such a powerful force was just downright inspiring. He was one of the good ones.
As a Canadian I had no idea that you could go to juvie for missing school. That's insane. Especially with how it seems there is a school shooting in the news almost every day. I dropped out of school five separate times as a kid and transfered schools multiple times just from my mental health being so poor and depression along with all the bullying. I can't imagine the fear of being in a school shooting on top of all that. I'm surprised kids are even still going to school. I would expect some sort of student strike after all this violence. Until change is made or something like that. I feel so much sympathy for the current generation and what they have to go through at such a young and impressionable age. My heart hurts for you
Anyone who has an IVF in store can now claim them on taxes and demand child support. Two can play that game.
This whole thing is just archaic and obscene. That was an inexcusable ruling.
And watch the Supreme Court in Alabama fight against it
The blatant disregard of the constitution from the Alabama Supreme Court is terrifying. Further proving the right wants to rule not represent.
Neuralink is just begging to go horribly wrong. Yes, let's give Elmo of all people this power.
This whole school absence situation is a mess. We live in an area where the school is really “old-school” when it comes to child psychology. The school counselor doesn’t even have a degree! My 7 year old daughter had 3 different weeks where she was really sick so school wasn’t even an option. We’re talking vomiting, strep throat, and Covid. After all of this, she started to develop crippling anxiety whenever we tried to leave the house. She would hyperventilate, and cry so hard that she would vomit. We were working with a therapist to figure it all out but the school was not willing to work with us at all. They said “you need to just send her and she’ll learn to tough it out. “
I was furious. I talked to the school counselor and she said the same thing.
I’m homeschooling her this year and her entire demeanor and confidence has returned to what it should be for a 7 year old.
But here’s the thing. Most kids don’t have a parent who is able to give up working to homeschool them. We are very lucky that my child has two parents in the home so one can work, and one can devote all of their time to their child’s education.
How is that fair for the other 99% of kids and parents who don’t have those luxuries. The public school system is a mess. Teachers are overworked and severely underpaid so they are miserable and take it out on the students. And out of all of this, the students are suffering and punished for it.
For me, i was a drug addict at 16 with a widowed mom who had to work. She couldn't take off time to ensure i went to high school. When she was sent a threat to prosecute her for truancy, she had to ask me to make a choice. Drop out or go to school every day. I obviously couldn't go to school everyday as i was addicted and needed treatment. The school offered nothing to help with me. Either show up or drop out. I dropped out with all A's. Also the whole football team failed for heroin but were kept on because it was most of the football team.
jesus christ did they at least tell the parents??
@nightknight6947 nope just covered it up. Yet offered no help to all of us. They couldn't lose their precious football team.
@nightknight6947 luckily my mom got me treatment and I'm healthy with a great life. Can't say the same for my peers.
Let me get this straight in the state of Alabama if I were a frozen embryo for 10 years before birth, I would legally be eligible to drink alcohol at 11. After all, I was technically a person for 10 years before being inseminated. Can we use our frozen embryos as dependents being that they are people? At what point can we apply for a Social Security number for our frozen embryo?
One student my mentor teacher had was chronically absent due to his mother keeping him home regularly. She reached out to her multiple times, but nothing changed. After I left that school, she was arrested for child neglect. The poor kid had trouble reading, doing math and couldnt even zip up his own coat without needing assistance. I hope now hes actually getting the education he deserves.
As someone who had an ectopic pregnancy these laws are getting scarier and scarier. What is going to happen to women in Alabama who end up in a similar situation where their pregnancy is nonviable, ivf or not? Regardless of how much I grieved due to my loss, it wasn’t viable and wasn’t a person. Women deserve to keep their autonomy. And I understand suing because someone else caused harm either by accident or on purpose but this is just insane…
Open AI needs to be reigned in before this gets totally out of control.
That was attempted back in November. It didn't go very well. The corporate/market forces at play (and the cult of personality among the employees at the company) reacted quite negatively to that course of action.
Even taking OpenAI out of the question, everything in AI is full steam ahead, no brakes. This seems top be the course we're bound to, and I see no realistic way of that not being the case. All us normal ppl can do is watch and experience this history unfold before or eyes. All for the worse or better. I'm actually more concerned for keeping things closed access and proprietary because of how much more that amplifies those in power's unequal ability to leverage manufactured consent.
Honestly I see this as a new opportunity for creativity to flourish. No more gatekeeping by the major studios and publishers when all you need is an idea, and the technology can bring it to life. Not all of it perfectly, not yet, but figuring out how to polish something pretty solid is a lot easier then starting from scratch.
@@kingofhearts3185 you haven't realistically thought this through very well then. There's not going to be some kind of utopia achieved by the use of AI.
@@himan12345678 Utopia is joke or a delusion, and I'm pretty cynical. I wouldn't even call it revolutionary. Individual people can make a lot as is, plenty of indie games and youtubers in the last decade prove that point, Stardew Valley being one of the most successful examples. This can help with that.
I think it would be important if Philip talked about KOSA and how that has the chance to limit discussions about LGBTQ+ abortion issues on the internet.
Open AI: Look at this could thing we made!
Bad Actors: Time to make even better looking deep fakes
In regards to TikTok "celebrities", I imagine the main reason people dislike them being compared with the usual kinds stem from the fact that a lot of prior celebrities rose to fame through hard work and years of schooling, training, and effort towards perfecting their arts. Then you get some kids and slightly older kids making it big by throwing minute long videos at an algorithm designed to put your content in front of as many people as possible. Only to then start acting as if they're some sort of untouchable superstar for having a decent following of preteen's with brain rot who'll forget about you as soon as their iPad dies.