My husband's son from East Palestine was here yesterday with his family. His daughter who is in ninth grade was talking to us about high school. What she was saying made my blood boil. Keep in mind this is a small extremely conservative town.
She is on the color guard which is always girls. She then proceeds to tell us they just put a boy, who thinks he is a girl, on the color guard. She looks at me and rolls her eyes. Then she says I am the ONLY girl on the team that is straight. They all claim they are gay. With her saying it, in not the exact words, I realized they are picking on her. They told her she can't wear or have anything rainbow because she can't have it because she isn't gay. Then she tells me they all worship Satan and the majority of the students have Satanic tattoos.
I looked at her and said you look them in the face put your head up high and say, I am straight and proud of it and don't engage in your insanity. Then tell them you don't own the damn rainbow God does. She looked at me and said I have to be nice and not do this because the school will say I am homophobic. I said bullshit. Stand the hell up.
Her parents who are extremely conservative said to her, you have to understand they are going through a phase to be accepted by friends and their social media.
I said do you guys not get it? This isn't a phase it is brainwashing. The more they do it then they begin to live it. This isn't a rebellious phase like they did sneaking around in the day to smoke or drink. This is brainwashing pure and simple.
This is what is going on in the schools. If this is happening there what the hell is going on in the larger schools?
I have no words for this insanity.
They have Home School classes online that I believe is free in the state of Kentucky and possibly other states. If the Mother works, and her daughter is old enough to stay at home alone, then she could have her do her work online and check to make sure all is done when she returns home from work. My daughter homeschools her kids. Although she doesn't work. They do theirs online and it is free I believe. She registered with the Department of Education in our town and all they have to do is at the end of the year they must go to an appointed place to take their end of year tests to prove they are learning. My daughter also buys them education books of their grade to help them but are not required. Perhaps this might be worthwhile to check into. I wouldn't want my child or grandchild to put up with this brainwashing. It is not good for their mental health. God bless.
Obviously they are in Ohio. I will let them know.
Oops! I don't know why I didn't retain that info. I guess my mind is slipping. God bless.
Yea I am old too and my retention sometimes my nil.
Have a blessed Easter.
No one should send their child to government centers, and no one should subject their child to bullying.
Suggest HSLDA's website, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, they have lots of guidelines for how to get started, why it's important, directories for groups of home schooler groups in their area. Cathy Duffy had tremendously helpful guides for choosing curricula as well. It's cheaper than private school, there are video options for many curricula, and by the way public standards have been pushed out 1-2 years, using the plandemic as an excuse. Home schoolers that didn't stop will generally be ahead those years.