Reason Number 2

My younger son was bullied in Kindergarten.  Yes, Kindergarten.  Looking  back, I would actually call it sexual harassment.  Another Kindergartener kept searching him out and telling him "When you love someone you suck their balls" and showing him what that meant.  After multiple attempts to get the school to do something we ultimately pulled him out.  The teachers tried to empower him, but when you have as many kids as they did there is only so much you can do.  When there are like 300 kids on the playground at a time you can't see everything.  The administrative staff at Sheridan Elementary, where my son went to school, minimized all of my complaints.  At the end of his Kindergarten year I asked the principal to please make sure that he and the other child were not in the same class.  When class lists came out the next year they were in the same class again.  When I went to the principal about it she told me it was because they both tested into the gifted cluster.  Then she told me the only thing she could do was move Grego since I was the one complaining...  Um YEAH I am complaining!  So she moved him into a English as a Second Language class...  putting him at a disadvantage.  He ended up having a good year, but the more I volunteered at the school the more I saw how powerless the teachers were against this type of behavior among other types.

When will we wake up?  Now I've heard that the same child was bullying a friend of Gregory's and once again the school did nothing.  That child's parents are now homeschooling him too.  If I had it to do over I would have called the cops.  Don't let your child be bullied...  And don't trust the school to handle it.  It's not working that way.

Here's a story on 1 Ohio school, 4 teens dead....

Reason Number 1

Teacher Accused Of Soliciting Sex From Minor

Thomas Calvin Vickers Works In Conroe ISD

In Conroe, Texas  junior high school teacher has been accused of soliciting a minor for sex.

Thomas Calvin Vickers

The man's name is Thomas Calvin Vickers, and he is 42 years old.  Officials said an undercover officer posed as a 14-year-old girl during an online chat with Vickers.Vickers displayed lewd images of himself and solicited sex from a deputy constable he thought was a child, deputies said.Detectives said he also showed lewd images of what appeared to be juvenile females.Vickers teaches seventh- and eighth-grade history and is the head of the school's history department.  He was arrested Thursday outside of the school he teaches at on two accounts of enticing a child and one count of promotion of child pornography.

Welcome!

Welcome to the newest addition to my blog family :)  This idea has been in my head for a while, but I've never had the time to implement it.  I still don't really have the time, so I considered just adding a feature to my Nailing Jello Blog, but I really want that to be more of a cornucopia, so I decided to go ahead and just start this blog.

I really really want to say first and foremost that this is a blog that is about my feelings on homeschooling.  The most important thing I want you to know about that, is that I believe homeschooling is best for my family at this time, but I do not believe it to be the best choice for every family or even every child in said families.

I have a mixture of friends in both worlds, and I  have a great deal of respect for all of them, and their decision for their family.  I welcome (and love) comments on my blog, but I ask that you understand that this is not a blog intended to bash public schoolers, or their families, so be respectful.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy this blog.  And I hope I'm able to update it regularly :)