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John Anthony's avatar

It’s easy, David. Parents pay a small fortune to send their kids to college. In college, kids learn their father (and sometimes mother) are part of the white patriarchy. Kids return home to tell their educational benefactors that they are the reason everything about the United States is focused on racial oppression. Inability to communicate with parents and children ensues and Hollywood decides it’s perfect fodder for a sitcom. Parents cry and wonder what they possibly did wrong.

True story.

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Isha Yiras Hashem's avatar

Here are some real examples from my neighbors friends cousins kids, but definitely not my kids. Details obviously changed.

1. 6yo comes home from school announcing he has decided that A,B,C are smart enough to talk to, but DEFGHIJKL aren't. He proceeds to completely ignore the children he does not view as intelligent enough. It turns out he is judging intelligence based on performance in math. If a first grader can't do division, he views them as useless.

2. Child explains that he is fine writing a book report, but it has to be a book he wrote himself, and he's still busy writing it.

3. Child, when asked if there are any known allergies, tells people that "I'm allergic to ants crawling on the floor of the bathroom when I use it"

4. You get a phone call from school. Your daughter has been deliberately answering everything wrong because she dislikes the teacher.

5. You get a phone call from school. Your kid wrote "classmate name is an idiot" on the classroom wall in permanent marker because the other kid won a raffle.

6. A teacher asks you what to do. Your daughter refuses to write anything. There is no apparent reason for this, and your daughter doesn't attempt to provide one. She simply doesn't want to.

7. At PTA, you are informed that the child's desk is in the corner, and it's upside down because that's how they insist on using it.

8. One of your children develops an interest in tetanus and touching rusty nails. He encourages his friends to experiment with this.

9. Child says they speak their own language called Neh. Neh means "my brother is a fish" and there are no other words in the language. (See my recent post)

10. Kids want to know why they can't run the hose endlessly if there's not a drought

11. You put out glue traps. Kids discover you can scratch out the glue to form very sticky balls.

12. Child insists that they cross streets safely. You observe that this is not the case in reality.

13. Your child tells you a supposedly true story about flying during recess.

14. Child complains their sibling lied. They said it was warm outside and it was only 75 degrees

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