Here's another one for the "people need to stop finding Subliminal Messages in news articles posted on the internet and cease their ranting and raving about said Messages in the comments section" files.
Here is an article about a 3 year old girl who was suspended from a county-run Montessori school for having too many "accidents."
In my opinion, legitimate comments might contain something to the effect of "this girl was obviously not ready for preschool in the Montessori environment because she was not completely potty trained as the rules required" or "it is ridiculous for the school to suspend a child who probably just needs a few additional reminders to get to the toilet."
Some people did say these things (most stuck with opinion #1), but others somehow decided that it's all the idiot Mother's fault because she is "too selfish" to stay home with her daughter instead of working, she shouldn't have had kids in the first place because she's obviously too self-absorbed to raise her daughter, she should have had her child toilet trained at 18 months as was the practice a generation ago, etc.
Excuse me?!?!? I thought the article was supposed to be about a child who was suspended from school, not an evaluation of the child's mother. Also, I didn't hear anyone complaining about how the father should stay home, encourage the child to use the toilet, spend more time with the child, etc. A few of the 396 (so far!!!) comments contained questions regarding the whereabouts of the dad, but that's about as much as he was ever brought up. In all fairness, the dad was not mentioned in the article, so it does make sense that the comments did not focus on him either.
I don't even know why I bother reading article comments, because they usually just drive me batty. Some people seem to want to twist the topic and turn it into their own personal agenda instead of staying on point by sharing relevant opinions. Annoying....
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