Did Your Parents Ever Take You or Anybody Else You Knew Out of a School?

[Cbsteffen]

I remember after my sister had gone to elementary school in my family's neighborhood for 2 years, our parents took her out of there because the principal was not properly addressing what students with behavior problems needed, so they sent her to a private school. I didn't go to the same elementary school because I have had autism, and Special Ed teachers at that school were not the best qualified to deal with students with disabilities.

[heypeg]

No I have never had that experience

[Penwoir]

I don't really know of anyone who has been pulled out of school, but there are a couple of kids who live quite near to my house whom I often see playing in the street during school hours. The brother and sister are approximately 9 and 11 years old and at least for the last two years, they have not been to school. I feel terribly sad for them. I appreciate they might find it difficult in school, but when they grow up they will never be able to make something of themselves if they don't complete their education. I blame the parents. They are totally failing in their responsibilities!

[batmobile]

No

[LenoraMinogue]

I've never had any friends who got taken out of school. But I imagine something has to be seriously going wrong for a child for a parent to consider such an extreme move. It has be a difficult decision to make. I feel lucky that I didn't have to experience that, and that my friends didn't either.

[luvh8tragedy87]

Yes, actually. It didn't happen to me but 3 friends of mine...and my teacher, and the school nurse. To this day I still don't know what the "feud" was really about but the parents had a problem with the principal. It was so weird and sudden. Everyone else liked the principal. The mother of one of my friends, who was also the school nurse, went off the deep end and actually cut off contact from most of us there.

[Tresbn00]

I was removed from an inner city high school at the end of my sophomore year. My school was one of the first schools to force integration/desegregation which was a failed experiment. Kids at the high school level are set in their ways and it turned into somewhat of a blood bath. I went from a 4.0 grade point average down to a 2.0, was a chronic truant because I didn't like the hostility, came home bloodied when I did go to school and suspended when I won that day's fight. I went off to suburbia and was an outcast because everyone that I had grown up with was at my old school. Making new friends was difficult even as a good athlete. It took about two years to rid myself of the aggressive, anti-social traits and about a year to get my grades back to normal.

[sabine1991]

I never experience that. I remember when i was in school i used to wake my father up. He used to get upset and said you need to go sleep early.