Why I homeschool: reasons #4,564,251 & #4,564,252
From CBS News...
Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate.
School spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo says the New Haven school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a districtwide school wellness policy.
On a trip to the convenience store a while back my 10-year-old daughter surprised me by buying some "hot cheetos" (her favorite) with her own money. She didn't ask, she just followed me in, and the next thing I knew the poor clerk was having to count out 98 cents in pennies, nickels and dimes--mostly pennies. As a long line of amused and somewhat annoyed customers waited, the clerk finally totaled the amount and pushed back the remainder. Oblivious to the attention she took the change, then asked for a bag, something the clerk wasn't that used to fetching for a one item purchase. I was surprised by her confidence at such a young age. I have to wonder what kind of problems she would be having were she to have to endure the gauntlet of government schools nonsense that demands mindless obedience and compliance.
From The New York Post...
The parents of two Bronx preschoolers are suing the city, charging that their kids were tossed out of class - and handcuffed by a school-safety officer - for refusing to take a nap.
Lawyer Scott Agulnick said Jaden Diaz and Christopher Brito - both then 4 and students at CS 211, The Bilingual School - told their parents that a substitute teacher took them and another boy to an empty classroom on Nov. 17, 2006, and left them there alone.
Soon, the lawyer said, the school-safety officer entered the room, cuffed the boys' wrists - and further terrified them by telling they that they would never see their parents again.
Seems they take their nap time very seriously in the Bronx. Too bad they don't take the emotional well-being of children seriously.
Posted by Danny Carlton at March 13, 2008 7:03 AM