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7 and 9 is a bit young to strike out on their own...

Reminds me of William Munny, the widowed and “reformed” sociopath gunslinging antihero of Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven,” who leaves his unsuccessful Wyoming homestead to collect a large bounty by killing the cowboy (and his partner) who cut up a prostitute who “didn’t know any better” and had laughed “‘cause the cowboy’s pecker was so small.”

As William is riding off to leave his children alone for a few weeks while he kills more than a dozen people, children who look to be about 6 and 12 years old, he says, “Kill a few chickens if have to.”

John Taylor Gatto, who won multiple awards as best teacher in NYC (taught in Harlem) and state, but quit teaching because he felt he was hurting kids by participating in a bad system, liked to point to the example of David Farragut (born July 5, 1801):

Farragut was commissioned a midshipman in the United States Navy on December 17, 1810, at the age of nine.

Farragut was 12 years old when, during the War of 1812, he was given the assignment to bring a ship captured by the Essex safely to port. He was wounded and captured while serving on the Essex during the engagement at Valparaíso Bay, Chile, against the British on March 28, 1814.

Here’s Gatto’s WSJ op-Ed announcement of his resignation from teaching. Worth becoming familiar with his work if you have school age kids:

https://www.educationrevolution.org/blog/i-quit-i-think/

Some choice Gatto quotes on children’s education:

https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/2993-john-taylor-gatto

https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/2993-john-taylor-gatto/page:2