Yesterday my son came to me after school with rather dispirited frown. On the bus ride home a classmate told him that tomorrow (today) he would go to school with his gun and shoot my son
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I know some parents like that. I was taught to shoot on a rifle range at 10, but that was the only time I was allowed to touch a gun. I had hoped the boy's parents were like that but I have little confidence considering how lightly they're taking this.
When the mother was notified when she tried to drop off her son she told the school she didn't have time to talk about it and left. She's also denied fault the numerous other times her son has been disciplined by the school (and likely would have this time too had her son not admitted to saying it).
And yes, I worry that the school would stop being sympathic to my son's position, or at least distracted from the real point of this issue, if they knew his father was dating another man, or that his parents are polyamorous. I'm not out to the school on either count simply because of how intolerant this tiny town is. The neighboring town is worse, a Dutch-reformist community that outlawed dancing in establishments that serve alcohol and refuse business licenses to stores who wish to be open on Sundays!
Sounds like a good time to reinforce to your kids about societies' views on homosexuality and marriage. Your kids I think have seen you dating in both contexts? Is he clear on this difference or maybe a bit confused. So hard to keep "world's" straight...what's ok here and what's not ok there.
When the mother was notified when she tried to drop off her son she told the school she didn't have time to talk about it and left. She's also denied fault the numerous other times her son has been disciplined by the school (and likely would have this time too had her son not admitted to saying it).
And yes, I worry that the school would stop being sympathic to my son's position, or at least distracted from the real point of this issue, if they knew his father was dating another man, or that his parents are polyamorous. I'm not out to the school on either count simply because of how intolerant this tiny town is. The neighboring town is worse, a Dutch-reformist community that outlawed dancing in establishments that serve alcohol and refuse business licenses to stores who wish to be open on Sundays!
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