and still his loving parents sent him into that day after day... i do not understand this... this is their child! what is more important than that? a job? a house? food? i blame the parents...
“and still his loving parents sent him into that day after day... i do not understand this...”
Perhaps it’s because the parents and everyone else they’ve known attended public schools, as well, and can’t imagine that it can be done in any other way.
My daughters’ old school was closed, and the district combined the kids from their old school (a nice one) with kids from a poor school (bad kids). It was awful. I knew their teacher at this school, and trusted her. I knew they were okay in her classroom, but lunch and recess were the concern.
This is California, and the kids eat outside on most days so they don’t have cafeterias in lots of schools. One day, it was the first rainy day, so they had the kids go in the gym. I didn’t know how they were going to handle this, so I went to the school. There were kids running around screaming at the top of their lungs and throwing things in the gym. It was a zoo. Absolutely zero control. I pulled my daughters out of their immediately.
After that I went almost every day at lunch to make sure my daughters were okay. If there was a substitute, I stayed in the classroom the whole day or pulled my daughters out of school.
I have twins and I told them to never go to the bathroom alone.
I live in California, and can’t just pull them out of school without being truant.
When I wasn’t at their school that year, I was researching homeschooling and private schools. The following year, they went to a small private Christian school, and we have all been happy ever since.
It really makes me mad that when parents are having a problem with the school, you can’t immediately transfer the kdis or pull them out. I don’t think a kid should have to put up with bullying.