I went to a meeting with teachers and counselor at my son's school
last week. The P.E. teacher described my son's experience in P.E.
as "daily mental rape" and recommended that they put him in another
class. What amazed and outraged me was that the "solution" was for
me to get a note from his psychiatrist excusing him from P.E., as
if the fact that he was not very coordinated and was being subject
to "daily mental rape" because of it was his fault, or maybe mine
for not teaching him how to run properly or something. We asked
whether he could do an "independent study" contract for P.E., and
the counselor said, rather snottily, "We only do that for the four
olympic-track athletes that we have at the school." Fucking-hell,
like my son isn't worthy of the same deal that the "olympic-track"
athletes get. I thought moving to a neighborhood with the alleged
good schools would be the right thing, but they turn out to be run
by pompous jackasses. Grr, it makes my blood boil.
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