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<blockquote data-quote="Old_Slapper" data-source="post: 8875945" data-attributes="member: 690458">The issue, today, is how they want the kids to write a report on it.&nbsp; They require the kids to write a report on how great utopia would benefit us today.&nbsp; To be able to live in a society where we didn&#039;t have to worry about anything and everything was already planned out for us.&nbsp; My daughter responded, to the teacher, saying &quot;Isn&#039;t that how communist countries and socialism works?&nbsp; Why would we want to live in a society where we had not control over our lives&quot; The teacher actually replied by saying that&#039;s nothing like socialism and communism.&nbsp; My daughter didn&#039;t want to argue, so she dropped it.&nbsp; She is also in 7th grade.For those that don&#039;t know, this book is based on a utopia, where the government controls everything.&nbsp; Once a citizen reaches an age of self-awareness, they are forced to take daily medication that suppresses their mind from questioning things and never do anything that may cause conflict.&nbsp; Any child that is born is automatically raised to perform a specific job in life.&nbsp; If you reach a point, in life, where you are not useful, you are eliminated.&nbsp; Even if you are born, with a twin, they decide which twin is the healthiest, they eliminate the other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old_Slapper, post: 8875945, member: 690458"] The issue, today, is how they want the kids to write a report on it. They require the kids to write a report on how great utopia would benefit us today. To be able to live in a society where we didn't have to worry about anything and everything was already planned out for us. My daughter responded, to the teacher, saying "Isn't that how communist countries and socialism works? Why would we want to live in a society where we had not control over our lives" The teacher actually replied by saying that's nothing like socialism and communism. My daughter didn't want to argue, so she dropped it. She is also in 7th grade. For those that don't know, this book is based on a utopia, where the government controls everything. Once a citizen reaches an age of self-awareness, they are forced to take daily medication that suppresses their mind from questioning things and never do anything that may cause conflict. Any child that is born is automatically raised to perform a specific job in life. If you reach a point, in life, where you are not useful, you are eliminated. Even if you are born, with a twin, they decide which twin is the healthiest, they eliminate the other. [/QUOTE]

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