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Kid went to school this morning.

I got a call half an hour into the teaching day telling me to remove my child. AT ONCE.

Jim lost the day after losing the morning to replacing tires (you remember the tires), turning around to pick him up, go home and dig up the necessary documents and then going to over to the home public school to enroll him.

Didn't make it in time to keep him there today, but he did get introduced to his new class. Jim took the paperwork home to complete it and answering the questions just about broke him.

You see, children are to be in school, no matter if they live in a home or a cardboard box and the forms ask you about it.

I've moved up the placement testing for new school, but kid can get a taste of public school for the next few days and I can get an idea from a fresh set of eyes of what really this is all about.

Kid hated school. I think it's as simple as that. He had no motivation to comply and bucked authority at every opportunity. They, on the other hand, have no motivation to try to do anything with him and threw him out. Such is the prerogative of a private school.

But I've had enough - so much for the rosy image of a cute little school with cute little classes and sweet, adoring teachers. BAH.

For my next trick, I try to explain what happened to him. Yeah. Six years old and they don't want you anymore. THAT is going to be a fucking walk in the park.

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I'm also willing to guess he may be too smart for his teachers there;

When a kid gets kicked out for discipline issues, it isn't always because s/he's super-smart. Sometimes it's because s/he has, you know, discipline issues.

Yes, but prior postings here suggest that the kidling has been trying very hard to understand and comply and get with the program as best he can tolerate. and he is bright as hell. So, you know, one suspects maybe the program is at fault more than he is.

Having a husband who was labeled as a discipline problem right before he was labeled about 6 grades ahead of his current grade level, and having had a brother who's incredibly smart and talented and also at various turns of his academic career a discipline problem, sometimes a child can become a discipline problem merely because a teacher has no idea what to do with the kid, especially when the kid in question is

(a) smart enough to know more than you do but not socially savvy enough to keep it under wraps so as to not antagonize their teacher (my husband)
(b) smart enough to figure out exactly what shortcoming a teacher is covering up by belittling other kids, and yet not mature enough to realize that paying a bully teacher in kind with snide remarks is not going to be an engagement on a level playfield (my brother).

Happens more often than you'd think, especially to boys (smart girls are better able to just keep their mouth shut, in my personal experience).

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