Her child who is a student at that school may be refusing to come out of her bedroom right now, so mortified and embarrassed at what her “Crazy Mother” just did.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article285961211.html
No doubt you are right.... but the home situation is much messier than that.
So, she felt she should demonstrate that she had skin in the game.
No father in the home from a young age. Father and wifey #2—who was probably the reason for him abandoning his kids and the mother of his children—“supported” the transition; the school also usurped her parental rights, alienating and grooming her only son. I'd be crazed, too.