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Whether protecting your child requires defying systems designed to help them

I want to pull my kid out of standardized testing to protest how it harms education but the school says it will hurt his academic record.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Someone must choose between compliance that provides individual advantages and resistance that serves broader principles when institutional systems create this false choice.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gandhian satyagraha and nonviolent resistance?”

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