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FireannDireach 9 points ago +9 / -0

And you'll be here in a year still complaining, because your local school board told Betsy to go piss up a rope.

My parents tangled with the school board over my younger brother and sister, trying to yank them out of a shitty school. They are tyrants in their bubbles.

Or, you could homeschool, or send them to a good private school.

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WhitePowerRanger 1 point ago +1 / -0

My parents tangled with the school board over my younger brother and sister, trying to yank them out of a shitty school. They are tyrants in their bubbles.

I don’t get it. At what point are you not allowed to walk in, grab YOUR kid, scream “I fucking pay for this and I’ll be damned if I let you useless government drones tell me what to do when I pay your fucking salary” and drive them to another school and enroll them

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FireannDireach 2 points ago +2 / -0

Now you're starting to get it.

Well, what it took in my parents case, was bringing a lawyer to the last meeting, when the school board backed off immediately. (My dad bought his company's corporate lawyer a bottle of high priced scotch to represent him, he was a drinking buddy of my dad's.)

I have family who teach. All these years, I've gotten a good idea how insulated the boards are in their domains, and how all of them are fucking bullies. But when lawyers enter the picture, they know they're fucked, and back down - but few can afford high calibre lawyers to take on school board lawyers. You can't just enroll your kids in another school without everyone involved signing paperwork for rules the boards put in place.

School boards are very much like judges, they're emperors in their own bubble kingdoms.

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WhitePowerRanger 1 point ago +1 / -0

Oh shit my bad lol I wasn’t the guy you were arguing with, I just kinda hopped in here cause comments like yours about what you have to go thru to put your kid in school when YOU FUCKING PAY FOR IT makes me sick. That’s like buying an iPhone and Apple being like “you can only use it on wednesdays and you can’t buy any other phone ever” well wtf am I paying for then??

I also hate judges too. Fucking sent me to a bullshit trial and wasted all of my money and tax money on fucking non sense that we could have solved at Pretrial. But like you said, they have their own bullshit set of rules they go by and you can’t Rely on any caliber lawyers because they deal with them every day lol