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Scared of school
I am scared to death of school.
Not ME going to school… I was always rather irritatingly good at school.
No, what worries me is the thought of having a child in the public school system. And I keep reading things that reinforce my fears.
You see, there’s a few things that I cannot stand.
- Small-minded people who make rash and uninformed decisions and then refusing to back down on them, just because they can.
- Mean kids
- Loss of control
And it seems like, when you send your precious child into the great void of schooling, suddenly issues in these three areas start to pop up like dandelions in my newly planted lawn.
How does a parent survive? How do you keep your cool in the face of stupidity? How do you be involved without obsessing?
What do you do when the principal suddenly starts to enforce a random and unpublished dress code?
How do you respond when you find out your child is being bullied?
HOW am I ever going to survive this parent thing?!
I am absolutely terrified of sending my kid into the school system. Those issues you mentioned do, of course, weigh on me. But the thing that freaks me out most is his food allergy issue. How do I knowingly send him into a building where there is so much peanut butter, so many kids and so few adults. Gah!! I think I may become a permanent classroom fixture.