My Daughter is in Civics this year

[Robyn66]

My 17 year old daughter is in her senior year of high school and she is taking civics. We are in a VERY red part of NH. She is VERY liberal and has Aspergers so she is brilliant and doesn't filter very well sometimes. But sometimes I think she shouldn't have to filter.

To digress for a moment, last year I had to pull her out of one of the "services" she was receiving in her IEP because the so called "teacher" was telling her than instead of expressing her opinions in class, it would be better for her to write them down and submit them to a teacher who would then decide if they were appropriate. You see the republicans in the class were offended by her liberal points of view.

So anyway, to my joy she is in civics with many of these same darling republican raised kids, only now she has the appropriate forum to express her political views.

Every day she has been coming home with a list of things that the kids have said were true like

Torture got the only useful information in the war on terror,

Obama has done nothing for the economy

and all of the Romney talking points that are easy to debunk.

She researches them and brings them back to class with objective sources and the SPEAKS HER MIND!!!!


Mostly she is getting kids sputtering and saying she is "uninformed" which I think is hilarious because they cant answer her back!

I love this teacher, he is just standing back and letting it happen right now and my girl is holding her own just fine and every night she can sleep the sleep of the righteous.

The sad thing is, these kids are all products of their environment. God forbid they go home and relate anything my daughter said to them. Of course they will be told that she is "uninformed" at best.

I have encouraged her to join DU (I will have to check and see if there is an age requirement) because she is quite a young lady.

I just wish she was old enough to vote in November!!!!

[immoderate]

1. Without looking, I will tell you there is no age requirement to belong to DU.

You just have to follow the rules.

I'm sure she would be quite welcome here.

--imm

[gkhouston]

4. Pretty sure you have to be at least 13, but we've had other members in

their late teens.

[HopeHoops]

2. I lived in NH for 10 years. It ALL seemed red then.

[HappyMe]

3. She sounds like a great kid.

I think she will make a great addition here.

[PDJane]

5. By all means, bring her here!

Everyone is welcome here.

By the way, that was one of the wonderful things at the DNC. A black person at the RNC would have stood out like a coal in a bag of marshmallows. The DNC couldn't have been more different, and more representative of the whole USA. It was a delight to see!

[Auntie Bush]

6. You must be very proud of your very intelligent daughter. I hope the kids don't start bullying her.

Must be hard living among all those crazies. Do you still speak to your neighbors?

[Robyn66]

7. She has survived years of bullying

and come out the other side an incredibly strong and self confident young woman. Of course I had to spend my life on top of the school constantly because they never wanted to do anything about it.

She is in the National Honor Society and has quite a few very nice friends now. She has traveled a very long road to get where she is which included a period of being suicidal, which is common for kids on the spectrum. It is a frustrating world for them to live in. But she had a fabulous therapist and we are fiercely protective but at the same time we push her to spread her wings. Its a delicate balance to have to keep.

That being said, after being on DU for the last couple of days I have found that I don't think she is ready for DU yet. I can take the vicious posts that sometimes happen if you say the wrong thing, but it might be hard on her. Its too bad because there are a lot of people she would enjoy talking to, but there are some that just seem to be some hostile people just waiting to tear in to someone and she doesn't need that.

Otherwise we have a very nice neighborhood and I do have friends in town but there is a disturbing amount of teabaggers here.

[Auntie Bush]

8. Thanks for the happy update.

So glad things are working out for her. I wish her luck! I hope someday she can join DU...we're such a great compassionate community.