DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
@mattblaze
11pm you might convince me was a misguided attempt at improving sleep patterns, but 8pm? Why are underage people treated like they're not people 😭
Can they drive? What if they're at a friend's place? This is so bizarre to me.
@mattblaze im sorry, does that abrogate their Constitutional rights?
@mattblaze I agree with the entire post, 8pm is especially egregious. However, maybe this is just my inner oldness showing, but I don't think anything good happens after 11pm.
If it does, I won't be awake for it. 😂
The Pre-Crime Division will be founded in Washington D.C. then y'all get your freedom back. It'll be perfect.
@mattblaze I heard that Daytona Beach just imposed a curfew for the kids under 18 because things were nuts last weekend. I kind of doubt that the 17 year olds were causing the problems, though.
The US has a complex relationship with the age of majority.
Want to drive? Want to smoke? Want to drink? Want to vote? Want to enlist? Want a lap dance? Want to get married? Want to get a credit card? Want to get a vasectomy? It's a fricking mess.
@mattblaze Having just made a brief run to the store at 8:30p on a Saturday, I found myself pretty annoyed with the Youths that were out being loud for no reason.
But that is just being in public, and the sad fact that Target and Walmart are what amount to Third Spaces these days.
Being loud is something the US is at least as incoherent about as being young
@mattblaze
I love that you'll act surprised when people rise to this provocactive statement.
You're objectively correct of course, but it'll be entertaining.
@mattblaze
People are going to argue with a teen curfew, and you know they will. Think we agree that it's an unnecessarily demeaning thing to do to kids and probably statistically unsupportable as a deterrent to the behavior it's supposed to address. Lose on all fronts.
Someone's going to argue anyway. I take solace that your responses are better than most, but you've got to know it's coming.
@mattblaze when I was a teenager I was often on the street at 10 or 11 at night
because I was taking night classes at community college
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