My resons:
1. No evidence of actual learning taking place during school hours.
—1.a. Racist lessons: Kindergartners learning about “the first Thanksgiving” by making construction paper “Indian Headdresses”. Cultural appropriation, yay?
—1.b. Colouring pages, and grades reduced for not finishing said colouring pages. I offered to send actual work for my child to do in lieu of colouring three pages a day. This offer was rejected.
—1.c. Jingoism. Songs like “I love my freedom; I love my country” sung by a five year old who cannot define when asked the words “freedom” or “country.”
2. Far-too-consistent begging for additional money – weekly “snack tax” going to fund afternoon candy and cookies, PTA fundraiser, literal letter home begging for money in exchange for not doing another catalogue fundraiser, forcing the children to run laps during recess for a corporate-sponsored “run-a-thon” fundraiser.
3. Lack of Respect to Parents from Administration—One day, my son’s school bus driver just… chose not to come to work. Whatever, it happens. So, naturally, the school ushered the children into the lunchroom, passed out snacks, then picked up a phone and called the 20-something sets of parents to let them know they would have to wait for a bus driver to finish their route, and would they like to come pick their child up?
Oh wait, that didn’t happen. What did happen was they lined up the kids against a brick wall and made them sit silently on cold concrete for 1½ hours while nervous parents were left standing at a bus stop wondering where their children were, and frantically cycle calling the – now empty – school office since no one was around to pick up the phone.
—-These were my reasons for pulling him in the first place. You only have to follow the US news to understand why I have no desire to send him back.