Let me preface this by stating that my son is responsible for his own actions. He could have been expelled from his after-school curriculum because he wasn’t listening to teacher, that is entirely possible. The sole reason I don’t think that is the case in this particular circumstance is the details O gathered from both my son and my daughter.

We all know that most kids will follow their parents’ politics. We have the biggest influence on their perceived political leanings. I run a split household, my ex and her husband both voted for Trump. My son and my daughter were part of an after-school program in lieu of paid child care. They did mostly activities but also homework time to get a leg up on the classes they were taking.

My son is a white male. I don’t think that race and sex should play a role in the situation because I’m colorblind but it bears worth mentioning. My son recently got in trouble for not listening to the teacher when she gave an instruction. I’m not going to say that my son is not responsible for his own actions, that’s liberal shit.

That being said, when my son was kicked out of after-school care, he was grounded for two weeks. I don’t disagree with the punishment, it was very inconvenient for my ex and her new baby daddy to have to switch schedules to accommodate him. When I started asking some questions, that’s when my perception shifted.

First of all, I had spoken with my ex beforehand about the issue. There were already some holes in the argument that the class was being run properly. My ex had challenged one of the teachers (all of them are young twentysomethings) about their due process and what constituted expulsion. Furthermore, ever since last October politics started becoming a major topic for my kids in school. When I say that I mean I would pick them up and they would immediately tell me how cliques had been forming based on who liked which particular candidate, and if you liked Trump you weren’t allowed to be friends with the Biden cliques. Balkanizing the schools, basically. My younger daughter’s friends told her they wouldn’t be her friend unless she liked Biden. She had to play along just to have friends.

So I dared to ask the question as to whether the teachers in the aftercare program talked politics with them at all. He immediately said yes. I asked what they said and the particular teacher singling my son out had been saying how she couldn’t wait until Biden was elected, and one of my son’s friends whom was later involved in the last-straw incident agreed with her. No problem there, kids are too young to make an informed political decision... someone else is always making it for them.

Now here’s where things go sideways. My son, and my daughter, both told me that the teachers asked them who they wanted to be president. Mind you, politics has no business in elementary school, unless it’s to practice freedom of choice. In a democracy, everyone is free to make their own choices without fear of reprisal. We did it when I was in fourth grade and it was a fun exercise.

When my son told the teacher he wanted Trump, she said verbatim “Oh, so you’re one of them.” What the fuck is that supposed to mean? And why is it that when my son was with the pro-Biden kid (he’s African American, but again color has no bearing on this, at least I hope), they both went to the office, and my son was expelled but the other kid spends five minutes in there and goes back to class? That’s bullshit.

These people are not only brainwashing our children but are brainwashed themselves. They probably think that by dealing some type of economic blow to Trump supporting families they’re somehow winning. They already got their sham election, what else do they need to take from us?

Again, I’m not saying my son did nothing wrong. I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve punishment, and I can’t prove that politics played a hand in this. However, it sure does seem awfully fucking stinky and if that’s the case where the hell would I start? The school board is probably complicit so they would turn a blind eye, and for all I know the superintendent couldn’t give two shits either. It’s a sad moment when political divides start affecting our children and their education.

My son is a wholesome kid. He doesn’t swear, he’s learned firearm safety very early as well as marksmanship (he’s only shot real guns once and he’s 10 now), he listens to Tom MacDonald on Spotify and he likes learning about science and STEM fields. I think he has a bright future. Without proper guidance that could go off the rails quickly. I hate to sound like I’m ranting but I care about my kids and I don’t want them to be bullied over something they have no real grasp of, just what they hear second-hand from authority figures.