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Genki Hikari

(1,766 posts)
31. And teachers and school administrators
Tue Jan 10, 2023, 06:55 PM
Jan 2023

Often aid and abet their cruelty.

I had to pull my son from school entirely over bullying and the school not only failing to support him in any way or consider his side of things, but actively terrorizing him on top of it. They were outright bullying him for reasons I'll never understand.

Try having those slimeballs put your son in the "alternate" school for no good reason, and then, when the alternate school called me and said they were recommending he go back to regular classes because he clearly didn't belong there--only to have his main school say no, he needs to stay over there until we say otherwise.

But wait--it gets worse!

You try having cops pounding on YOUR door because the school believed a bully's lies, yet again, that my son had planted a bomb at the school--even though he had been with me all fricking day, trying to sort out the problem his scumbag school caused. And he never got near the place where those school scumbags said that supposed bomb was planted.

Did I mention that when the cops came into my house, ready to string up my kid, they were horrified to see not some crazed terrorist, but a typical 12 year old playing with his Legos on the floor? As soon as they saw that, they immediately chilled out and were downright apologetic about "bothering" us with something so silly after I chewed THEM out for believing the school's hateful LIES.

This is why I get so very angry when people trash home schooling. I could NOT send my son to a school where he was being actively terrorized BY the school, and I couldn't afford private school. Home schooling was all that was left to me, and, ultimately, I'm glad we did it. My son not only received a superior education in every way to anything he had ever gotten at school (or ever would), but also became a better PERSON after not being exposed to the utter filth that is school culture in America. He became calmer, less disrespectful to us, and less gimme gimme gimme materialistic--in just six short weeks of home-schooling.

And I don't want to hear the stupid BS crapola about "socializing." My son became part of a super-close-knit group of friends within a few weeks of leaving school--fantastic people who are still his friends, 20+ years later. When he was a teenager, they were all but living in my house, because they were "socializing" so much.

It's a flagrant lie that kids being home-schooled won't get socialized. A kid who wants friends will always find them, whether among neighbors or from shared interests they have. Know how my son met his lifelong pals? By striking up conversations with other kids at the local video game store and comic book stores.

I should have sued the living daylights out of that disgusting school of monsters for the grief and horror they put us through, but my son couldn't handle dragging it out. He was nearly broken by those evil scumbags, and I told them I was pulling him to prevent THEM from turning my child into either a criminal or a shattered mess.

I don't regret home schooling him. Not for one fricking nanosecond.

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At least it wasn't something from Loudoun County -- for a change. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2023 #1
How fucking typical... regnaD kciN Jan 2023 #2
When my granddaughter was in middle school agingdem Jan 2023 #3
Good for your husband Hekate Jan 2023 #30
Yours story is interesting..I'm sorry for your granddaughter, whathehell Jan 2023 #40
Kids are cruel. BlueTsunami2018 Jan 2023 #4
Middle schoolers Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 #24
And teachers and school administrators Genki Hikari Jan 2023 #31
I'm not convinced that the school should be held responsible, myself ... Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #5
I tend to agree with you. LisaM Jan 2023 #7
[Insert 'school supplied glasses' joke here] rubbersole Jan 2023 #8
She told police and school admin that she was sexually assaulted. What does that mean to you? Hekate Jan 2023 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #10
If you read down to the bottom of the article, it gives some of the 'schools side' in this. Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #44
Thanks, Hugh. I think we understand one another. Hekate Jan 2023 #45
Schools lack resources to respond to sexual harassment??? wnylib Jan 2023 #11
What if they were doing those sorts of assemblies though? Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #16
Of course just telling kids not to do something wnylib Jan 2023 #21
Yes..Rules need to be backed up..Schools need to do more whathehell Jan 2023 #23
"Slut shaming is a 'Time Honored Tradition''"? whathehell Jan 2023 #13
I did say 'very sadly' ... but all of us who attended High School ... at ANY point in history Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #14
Yes, I've heard this before from men, including whathehell Jan 2023 #20
You're right, I was remiss and should've at minimum phrased it much more delicately than I did Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #42
Hi Hugh.. whathehell Jan 2023 #49
No problem and thx for the condolences Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #51
You're very welcome whathehell Jan 2023 #52
Sir....Mr. Lebowski Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 #25
You're right, I did not express myself well at all. Apologies Jilly. (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #46
the school's principal told Riley that "sometimes the truth hurts," SYFROYH Jan 2023 #6
Time to make that principal's life miserable. wnylib Jan 2023 #12
Okay, that's really f***ing bad, if true, and the context was people calling her ... Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #15
That fucking principle needs to be FIRED for that.. whathehell Jan 2023 #22
THIS Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 #26
...and we wonder why the abuse of girls continues whathehell Jan 2023 #28
That's cruel, that's a cruel person and shouldn't be principle uponit7771 Jan 2023 #50
"sometimes the truth hurts?" cab67 Jan 2023 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #19
Please...Girls "sleeping with older boys", whatever whathehell Jan 2023 #27
"sometimes the truth hurts" Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #34
Sorry, but I think you're really reaching.. whathehell Jan 2023 #36
What I'm reaching for is a semblance of faith in humanity Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #37
I understand, but from a woman's point of view, it can whathehell Jan 2023 #38
I get it and I'm sorry if it came off the opposite of how I meant it Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #39
Hi Hugh.. whathehell Jan 2023 #41
Mr. Lebowski, SIR Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 #29
I am in no way victim blaming, or didn't mean to at least. Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #35
There is no context cab67 Jan 2023 #32
Thank you. whathehell Jan 2023 #33
I apologize for my earlier post, I chose a poor example there for sure Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #43
so do I, but cab67 Jan 2023 #47
Now that this story is out, and that piece is arguably the most inflammatory single data point Hugh_Lebowski Jan 2023 #48
WTAF is wrong with people. I cannot believe how many cannot just do the right thing. Bev54 Jan 2023 #18
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