I want to get a message to the President that he should address the current high school seniors across America. They had their senior year ruined by this virus. My daughter, for example, had her senior prom cancelled 3 hours before it was supposed to start. We were literally putting the final touches on her makeup when the school's robocall came in that all high school functions were to be cancelled immediately. This included prom, all awards ceremonies, the senior play, the senior trip to Disney World that we had being paying for all year, and now graduation. School just unceremoniously ended. They don't even get to say goodbye to the friends they've been with for years. No one is really talking about them. They feel forgotten and unimportant. And, really, so do the parents. I feel that we were robbed of this milestone, too. This is such an important transition for the whole family.
I was thinking that maybe if the President addressed the high school seniors directly that it could ease some of the sting.
Thanks, pedes!
I'll agree that homeschool is miles better than most of what's offered, but there's no harm in celebrating the transition milestone. Life is supposed to be getting real for them, that's why we allow the hoopla. I homeschool mine and the groups I'm part of are in the same boat, the equivalent events have all been defered. It's a bitter pill.
I just don't think we need to actually make it much of a milestone. Kids go on to think they accomplished something when it's four years of complete bullshit, then they go to college thinking they have a clue.
I forgot most of all four years but I don't remember them fondly. It was idiot worship through-and-through coupled with leftist propaganda.
I respect your position and understand where you're coming from. I rail against the ineptness and downright evil of our current education system and it's sick that we're not only allowing it but funding it. That's a shitty example to send to the kids if we're raising them correctly. I suppose if there's any silver lining to this it's the lesson that life can suck for some more than others.
Precisely. Most high schools spend more funding on football than on anything else. It's idealized in the media because the media needs to sell middle-schoolers TV shows, and the jackasses who worship football had it as the apex point of their life when they mattered but couldn't make it into college football.
I recognized this fact in high school and didn't even bother to get my picture taken for the yearbook. Why elevate a clown show? Why raise something beneath oneself on a pedestal?
Hell, part of compulsory schooling is so children have somewhere to go while women work. Because nobody makes enough to feed a family on a single job anymore.