Posted on 09/28/2005 9:28:07 PM PDT by manny613
The email from my girlfriend didn't come with an electronic red flag or even the letters "SOS" in the subject line, but it was filled with urgency nonetheless.
"Give me some words of wisdom, because I actually am overwhelmed to the point of panic about all the excess details school adds to our day," Kathleen wrote. Her older daughter recently started kindergarten, and Kathleen is fast discovering this is nothing like preschool.
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Excellent.
Puleese! What the heck is that?
This whole story is wrong, wrong, wrong. It's all about HER, not her "children".
That's what being a parent means. Total sacrifice for your children.
Why did she adopt if she was single? Kids should have a mother and father.
I can understand couples who can't conceive, but if you're going to adopt you should as least be married (a man and a woman marriage).
Why did she adopt if she couldn't deal with the stress of being a Mom?
My Ma had eight of us and we were all loved for and cared for by both our parents.
As any military wives out there know, it's not easy being a military wife and Mom, but my Ma soldiered through and sacrificed.
I feel so sorry for those adopted kids, they are going to be SOOO screwed up.
Everything they do is to raise money. Teachers need paper for their class, pencils for their class, chalk and erasers for their class. The printer needs toner.. on and on and on..
Meanwhile the school board is setting up digs in their new $40 Million administration building complete with $4,000 desks and commissioned artwork. No kids allowed. Meanwhile the school board is blithely requiring some children to spend upwards of an hour each way on school buses to achieve racial diversity. Besides being a burden to children and parents, it drastically increases their chance of injury from accident (statistically speaking) and wastes one hell of a lot of diesel fuel. Meanwhile the school board cries poverty! and slaps together more butler building school sheds out in the athletic fields and styles them classrooms.
Where is the PTA curriculum review committee? Where is the PTA Disciplinary Policy Advisory committee? Where is the PTA Education Budget oversight committee? Why does not one parent have the option to review the selected educational materials and offer feedback?
I didn't want to contend with the Betty-drones in their hard won feifdoms again this year. They already think I must be from another planet.
Don't bother trying to answer the questions above. Those committees don't exist. And I believe the teachers need those extra-budget items like pencils and paper precisely because it keeps the Betty-Drones too busy extorting nickels and dimes from children and their parents to notice that they have no authority or voice in their children's education at all.
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Kathleen is a single adoptive mom. Motherhood isn't easy even when you have everything going for you, so this lady must be very brave.
Kathleen will most probably send two very well adjusted and happy women out into this world when their time comes. She'll do it despite all the criticism she will receive from others. If she can avoid the know-it-alls her future decades of motherhood will go far more smoothly.
God bless her and her girls.
"Motherhood isn't easy even when you have everything going for you, so this lady must be very brave."
And life isn't easy when you don't have a father. What you call brave I call selfish. Frankly, shes not a mother, real mothers put their children first and not their own self interest.
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