Building bitterness at a young age

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  • ChristinaOrtiz23
    ChristinaOrtiz23 Posts: 1,546 Member
    high school i get, even middle school, but elementary school REALLY!!! smh, no fun for the 00's babys!!!
  • digitalbill
    digitalbill Posts: 1,410 Member
    This is one of the main reasons we started to homeschool our son a few weeks ago.
    So far, it is the best decision we have made for him.
    Even when we spoke to the county school administrator about it, she said it was a wonderful decision.
  • SemperAnticus1643
    SemperAnticus1643 Posts: 703 Member
    As the mother of a 7 year old girl that wants to drive a black 67 impala and carry around a sawed off shotgun loaded with salt bullets (see picture below for reference), I will be looking forward to using my vacation time for the days that she is suspended from school. :wink: Thank you all "non-parents" that want to be your child's friend.

    I played with toy guns and shot at the ducks on Nintendo when I was little. But I also understand consequences. No going postal for this mama.

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  • Naomi0504
    Naomi0504 Posts: 964 Member
    This is one of the main reasons we started to homeschool our son a few weeks ago.
    So far, it is the best decision we have made for him.
    Even when we spoke to the county school administrator about it, she said it was a wonderful decision.

    Yes, the positive feedback and even encouragement from public school administrators, teachers, etc, makes the decision to homeschool that much easier. Not that we felt like we needed anyone's approval to do it, but when it comes from within the system, it makes it that much more confirmed.
  • ren_ascent
    ren_ascent Posts: 432 Member
    As the mother of a 7 year old girl that wants to drive a black 67 impala and carry around a sawed off shotgun loaded with salt bullets (see picture below for reference), I will be looking forward to using my vacation time for the days that she is suspended from school. :wink: Thank you all "non-parents" that want to be your child's friend.

    I played with toy guns and shot at the ducks on Nintendo when I was little. But I also understand consequences. No going postal for this mama.

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    I couldn't see the pic but it sounds like Kill Bill. Am I right??
  • SemperAnticus1643
    SemperAnticus1643 Posts: 703 Member
    As the mother of a 7 year old girl that wants to drive a black 67 impala and carry around a sawed off shotgun loaded with salt bullets (see picture below for reference), I will be looking forward to using my vacation time for the days that she is suspended from school. :wink: Thank you all "non-parents" that want to be your child's friend.

    I played with toy guns and shot at the ducks on Nintendo when I was little. But I also understand consequences. No going postal for this mama.

    Dean-Impala-supernatural-24574052-800-522.jpg

    I couldn't see the pic but it sounds like Kill Bill. Am I right??

    Fixed the pic. :)
  • stetienne
    stetienne Posts: 560 Member
    In school, (and still to this day), pointing my fingers out like guns was/is my best dance move. I would have gotten kicked out of every prom.

    It makes me sad that my daughters are going to grow up in a school environment that is so different than mine was.

    And sadly, they'll have to develop a new "go-to" dance move :(
  • mfoulkebrown
    mfoulkebrown Posts: 94 Member
    That is an awfully Draconian policy.

    The charlatans who develop such policies should be horsewhipped.

    I see what you did there. :laugh:
  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
    Whatever happened to teaching kids about RESPONSIBILITY and the difference between right and wrong? Let's just take everything away and expect them to figure things out for themselves???
  • bethanytowell
    bethanytowell Posts: 256 Member
    Its a lose lose situation for everyone involved. The schools feel compelled to do something, they are damned if they do and damned if they dont. If they allow it to be okay and a shooting happens at their school, then all of the sudden the whole thing is their fault. If they dont allow it to happen, then they are just a**holes. Personally, i think it should be left up to the parents to teach their offspring right from wrong in the end.....
  • teresa77447
    teresa77447 Posts: 87
    Since nobody wants to take responsibility for their kids, and nobody wants to do anything about guns, and we don't want to put metal detectors in every school (especially those suburban, upper class, white schools.. where the shootings happen) then this is what happens.. Maybe parents should.. I don't know... lock up their guns, and not let their kids have access to them.. ya know.. responsibility...

    Or could just try and teach your children about guns and gun safety. Whats the point of a locked up gun in a break-in type situtation.
  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
    Its a lose lose situation for everyone involved. The schools feel compelled to do something, they are damned if they do and damned if they dont. If they allow it to be okay and a shooting happens at their school, then all of the sudden the whole thing is their fault. If they dont allow it to happen, then they are just a**holes. Personally, i think it should be left up to the parents to teach their offspring right from wrong in the end.....

    This..... It all needs to start at home with parents teaching and being good role models.
  • joyincincy
    joyincincy Posts: 228 Member
    Since nobody wants to take responsibility for their kids, and nobody wants to do anything about guns, and we don't want to put metal detectors in every school (especially those suburban, upper class, white schools.. where the shootings happen) then this is what happens.. Maybe parents should.. I don't know... lock up their guns, and not let their kids have access to them.. ya know.. responsibility...

    I agree with this verrrry much, especially that first sentence :wink: I think a lot more discretion needs to happen in homes, and I do also agree with boys being the ones who usually suffer overall (in terms of academics, etc).

    The police in California just shot a 13 year old for carrying a replica of an assault rifle. The kid did not drop it when asked to so they opened fire....are the parents to blame and if not who is at fault?

    I'll tell you who is to blame, whoever told a 13 year that they don't have to listen to their parents, or any other authoritative adult, and that they don't have to treat people with dignity and respect. Sorry, but children and teens nowadays are almost to the point of being dangerous to themselves, simply b/c they have no respect for others. No wonder bullying (just a polite word for abuse, btw) is such an issue and no wonder why we have more children getting shot by the police. I think people like to conveniently forget that the police are trained to shoot when the suspect holding a weapon of any kind does not cooperate. Why not, they have families to return to and shouldn't have to die b/c of someone else's behavior. I also think that people like to forget that it really does take a community to raise a child, not just the parents, not just the school, not just the government, etc, etc. Worst part, its our kids that are paying the price, be it through ridiculous rules like not being about to play cops & robbers or with their lives.

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