[subterfuge]

Let me tell you lucky, as a parent of 2 daughters, one of which graduated last month from high school (the other is already married) the situation you described in your post was typical of the seemingly arbitrary rules and judgements that are made in our schools. Private as well as public. You cannot reason with the so-called leaders of these indocrination centers. Logic does not enter their thinking. I could fill up a couple of books detailing the stupid, idiotic decisions they made and can only describe their attitudes of indifference toward the lives they are tasked with shaping as sadly lacking. I'm so glad it's over.

One side of my family are all teachers, mostly retired. I'm trying to get my oldest daughter to homeschool, but it doesn't seem they will.

[crazyshrink]

Interesting reading all of your takes on this story. As a family therapist, I have a different take on the probable cause here. I would bet that jr came home, mom and dad asked about his day and he told them about the “awards”. Mom and/or dad got pi$$ed and jr didnt dare tell them he was fine cuz he didnt want to disagree with them.

Nonetheless, I am concerned about the “least likely to have kids” award. I would like to know what jr thought it meant b/4 I passed judgement.

[luckystarmom]

I used to be so on the side of teachers until my kids started going to school.

The lack of education given my daughter has really been amazing. My other 2 kids are gifted, and they can easily pick up things.

However, my one daughter has brain damage. Everything is hard work for her. What has amazed me is that when I would tell the schools that she had a problem, they ignored me.

I remember telling them over and over that it seemed like she had a hearing problem because we were always repeating things to her. Her hearing was tested by an audiologist, and we knew that she could hear, but something else was going on.

She also has speech problems, and I told them that she had a hard time finding the words to say to things I knew she could pronounce. They ignored me on that.

In 3rd grade, I finally asked for an independent evaluation. We found out my daughter has horrible auditory memory. She can’t remember things you tell her. She was 9 years old by the time we figured this out. The schools had the tests for this, but they never tested her.

Then we found out that she has word finding problems (like a stroke victim).

Even after we found out these problems, the schools didn’t want to remediate the problems.

For 4th grade, we placed her in private school with a reading tutor, and private speech therapy. She’s making good progress now. When I bring up a problem, everyone now tries to figure out how to help her. Even if they can’t, they suggest who I should take her to.