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Why Our Son Doesn’t Need a Dose of Hell to Prepare Him for Life

Why Our Son Doesn’t Need a Dose of Hell to Prepare Him for Life

Hell does not prepare you to face hell; it prepares you to become part of it.

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When we received an email from our son’s high school requesting our consent for him to attend an “awareness class” for the second year in a row, we refused. My wife wrote them that he had already taken this class last year and that he didn’t need to hear it all over again.

When we asked him what kind of awareness they raised, he told us a bunch of stuff…

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