“What kind of dad lets his 11 year old kid put a bullseye on himself like that? Pathetic.”
Not at all when I started school I was instructed to openly chalange anything that I didn’t agree with, which I did.
I also got straight As through school, a couple of them by going over the teachers head.
With the help of a couple of friends we even got one teacher that started to spew collectivist/communist crap to transfer to another school.
Of course that was 65 years ago.
I attended my son's open house last night (A Philip Randolph in Jacksonville, FL -80% black magnet school.) I must have counted 50 Obama shirts on parents and kids.
My son chose to go back to public school after the rigors of homeschooling. He is in all AP courses, and his teachers universally praise his "original" thinking and well articulated arguments in class discussions.
My proudest moment of the night was meeting his metrosexual AP English teacher who had encouraged his class to write from a feminist viewpoint and had them read and draw conclusions from Ernest Hemingway's Hills like White Elephants
Not wanting to give away the "surprise" of the story, he asked his students what "operation" the characters were discussing. My son completely derailed the class with his supposition that the woman had a penis and was being encouraged to have it removed. He supported this with elephant imagery.