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Pastimes : WHY?? Littleton Colorado -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (239)	4/25/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: aleta	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 368

Parents must do whatever they have to do to alleviate this type of abuse and suffering, even if it means self sacrifice, removing the child from the abusive environment, WHATEVER it takes. If we really love our children as we say, this is the very least we can do. I agree. Two years ago we decided to take our, then, 11 year old son out of the public school system that was failing to do anything to protect him from others who were abusing him because he was "different". His difference was that he was highly talented and creative. He wasn't like everyone else. We decided to homeschool. It was the best decision we have ever made. We've grown even closer as a family and we've been fortunate enough to find groups of other very talented children for him to participate with in developing his creative side and learning the proper social skills. What bothers me is that we really tried to work with the teachers and the parents of his tormentors, but to no avail. After being told repeatedly that he would have to learn how to deal with the cruelty of the abuse because kids always pick on each other we said, "No more". I'm glad we did, because our sweet, kind, loving child of 13 informed us, as we watched the horror of Littleton, that he had thought about taking a knife to school and stabbing the kids that were his tormentors. The only thing that stopped him was that he knew it would hurt us if he did something like that to anyone. Thank God, we had a connection to him!!! I'm still feeling a little numb from his confession and so relieved that what could have been another tragedy, wasn't. I wonder how many more are out there just waiting to happen? It's time for the parents of bullies and the school systems to take heed and quite making excuses for cruelty. It seems the consequences are just beginning to surface.