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In reply to the discussion: School failed to stop harassment of 14-year-old who reported a sex assault, complaint says [View all]Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)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.