that ruined my day.......................
Oh, how true it is, childhood gone at age 5, and the people she’ll meet in her future including those so-called precious teachers are not worthy of the childhood that they never get back. Isn,t government schooling GREAT.
Taught by more worthless union members, and led by even more worthless politicians
They didn’t mention the part where she’ll learn to put a condom on a zucchini....
This sounds like an ode to smothering, helicopter parents.
While I support home schooling, I detest the idea of parents who both want their children to be their clones, and want their children to accomplish what they, as parents, failed to do and have long regretted.
Because either path is harmful beyond measure to children, who need their own purpose for being, as individuals, and need and will have to venture out in a world unsympathetic at best, and hostile at worst.
It is wise to protect children from harm, but foolish to defend them from their mistakes, to hide them from the truth, to cocoon them and never let them emerge in flight. To confuse a superior education with a life.
I once watched with sadness a girl just entering college, who had been raised in isolation, and to only enjoy what her parents enjoyed: their music, their culture, their isolation. But thrust out into the world, her stay was brief, before she met some gutter punks.
They could not have been more different from her than space aliens. Their lives, their experiences, their everything was unknown to her, and she felt compelled to discover it, to unveil the “lie by omission”.
She quit school. She moved into an apartment with them and tasted of their vices. Eventually she went on a road trip of alcoholism a thousand miles removed. Even the wiser of the gutter punks said that she would continue this way until she had hit rock bottom. He was correct.
A stiff price to pay for learning the truth denied her. She survived, but will never speak to her parents again.
A more unfortunate child became the focus of his mother’s obsession with music, her own failing, and she drove him to become a cellist, using deep and perverse means to force him to practice, evil psychological tools on her own child to fulfill her ambition.
His final message to her was to smash his cello to pieces then hang himself. No reason to leave a note. Such ambition for a fifth grader.
I believe she had another child, to replace the one who failed her.