Reply #58: Bullies, social outcast, boredom, bad schools, etc [View All]

[Asgaya Dihi]

Lots of reasons. My sons both loved school when they were younger, both qualified for the TAG program and both looked forward to going to school. That ended with middle school and got worse by high school. If you don't fit the mold they crush you and it's as simple as that.

The oldest for instance is a natural speed reader, the teacher was always giving him crap because rather than reading he'd be looking out the window but he always tested high and knew the answers. We just couldn't get it through to them that if he's done reading and knows the answers then why should he just stare at the page? Eventually we ended up pulling him from school and home schooling him the last couple of years, if we hadn't done that he'd have stopped going too. The kid got around 1170 on a SAT test administered by Duke in 7th grade and accepted into the baccalaureate program for a scholarship if he kept the grades up, it wasn't lack of ability. It was a need to be allowed to be himself.

The younger is starting to run into the same problems, and he used to love school. When I was a kid we realized that they are noisy, these days they expect them to sit quietly, don't fidget and don't be kids. Turning them into a bunch of drones in this school district at least. I'm afraid we'll end up in the same place with this one too. With me it was gangs, lived poor in the DC area and that didn't work out so well.