My personal experience with school:
I was good in school until I reached 7th grade. That was when I started to not understand math and fall miserably behind. Even though I was failing math, the school passed me on to 8th grade. Again for 8th grade, 9th, 10th and 11th grade, they passed me when I failed math. I reach my Senior year and that\’s when they got me where it hurts. That was when they would not longer let me slide. One year, when I was doing bad in math, the counselor took me out of math completely and put me in choir. The next year, my new math teacher had a disobedient class. No matter how many detentions these kids got, they continued to disturb the class. The kids were loud and the teacher told the class that whomever is trying to listen to him can move to a seat closer. I reported this to the principal and she moved our entire class to a different teacher. And my teacher got her students. Problem with this was the teacher wouldn\’t help me with math. I raised my hand for help and she ignored me until I started to holler for a different teacher that was in the room for her. I was failing History class and asked for help. The teacher told me to find a different teacher to help me. I was in a special English class that was supposed to help you pass the English Proficiency Test. The teacher graded her students on word puzzles and showed uneducational movies in class, such as “Bad Boys.”
I never thought I could hate school more than what I did when I was in school but I was proved wrong. When my son entered school, my hate for public schools reached a new high level.
He was in Kindergarten and the school was obsessed with meaningless parties. They had parties even when it wasn\’t a holiday. They constantly fed the students and they didn\’t notify the parents of what they were giving their kids. One day, they gave this one kid something he was allergic to. They had his allergic form in the classroom but didn\’t bother to look. But there is no way you can keep up with allergic information for 17 kids anyway. They had an overnight sleep over in the classroom on a school night. The teacher put glitter in their hair for some Saint Patrick\’s party they were having. My son\’s scalp started to get irritated and itch. No matter how much I washed his hair and scrubbed, it wouldn\’t come out. I let the teacher know and asked her not to use that again and immediately she got in my face and started being sarcastic with me. In a meeting with parents, the teacher told the parents that if a child needs to be absent from school, to have them be in the classroom for attendance then they can be signed out of school. This is all because the school gets money for each kid sitting in their class. The teacher started to tell me that my son was having behavior problems in class. I was questioning problems and home also. When I let his doctor know that the teacher was having problems also, he gave me a questionnaire for her to fill out to try to find out how to help my son. I gave the questionnaire to the teacher and she lied about everything.
In first grade, my son\’s teacher had 14 volunteer parents and was begging for more. She told me I could get a babysitter for my baby and come volunteer. She had the volunteer parents (who are uneducated) grade class assignments. I looked at my son\’s assignment and noticed that every question was incorrect but the paper was stamped with a “good job.” I noticed many papers coming home that were incomplete and the teacher never made him finish it. He wasn\’t writing his letters correctly or correctly on the line and she never showed him the right way or made him do it the right way.
I hightly recommend for every child to never even step foot in a public school. They are a waste of time. The only thing they are good for are parent\’s who don\’t care about a good education for their children and just want a free babysitter.
