I'm sorry, but the person I would blame is the education assistant. Fine, you go to psychic, free country and all that. But then you take the psychic's word verbatim?!?!
Fine, you take the psychic seriously, you ask some questions, talk to the kid's peers, whatever. You do not go straight from psychic to CPS. And this is just the education assistant? Didn't the actual teacher or principal stop and say, "Whoa, I appreciate your concern, but before we call in CPS, let's see if we can get something, anything more concrete than hearsay?"
If I was on that schoolboard, there would be some serious questions being asked of that chain of responsibility.
The death of a classmate may be the one thing that freaks out kids the most. I can still remember the day in 8th grade when it was announced (with complete accuracy) that a classmate had died. The thing that gets me most was the complete and utter silence between classes. Because if there's anything 8th graders aren't good at, it's changing classes quietly.
Creating that situation as a "learning experience"? Insane.
The Mississippi has overflown 19 levees.
Hmmm, overflown. . . overflooded? Nothing seems right.
I am in happy tears after watching the documentary
For the Bible Tells Me So,
about religion and gays. It was on the Sundance channel if any of you want to catch it. Really moving and important information for LGBT youth and adults. It made me think of Ariel Schrag and her struggle with accepting that being gay is "natural."
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I'd love to have a follow-up to that detailing occurences of school vandlism. They were lucky not to get a riot.
But things got worse when school officials used the "evidence" and accepted the completely unsubstantiated word of the seer by reporting the case to Children's Aid, which promptly opened a file on the family.
"They reported me to Children's Aid," Leduc declares, still disbelieving. "Based on a psychic!"
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK??!?!?!!? I want her to sue the damn school and moved to have the report expunged from her record. She now has a record with child services because of this bullshit.
The conversation should have ended after "my psychic told me..."
Weirdly for a small school (about 100 per graduating class), we had a lot of people die. There was the kid who stole my neighbors moped that I mentioned the other day, a girl who fell out of the back of a pick up truck, someone who had leukemia, a teacher who was killed in a car accident, a janitor and father of 2 young men who had a heart attack (the young men were taken in by a teacher), and the son of a female janitor who died at the school. Oh- and another someone who died in a car accident who I forgot about until my grandfather was buried next to him, as well as a guy who shot himself and a girl who was murdered.
I am in happy tears after watching the documentary For the Bible Tells Me So, about religion and gays.
The director of that used to be on staff at the church I used to go to!
Two hours to vacation. How much can I stabinate and/or space out between now and then?
