Follow-up: Signs of a struggling school?

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Um, the social justice they were displaying the day my husband and son visited was not the social justice of the RCC. My husband said, “No way.”
 
I came late to this topic but:
ConfusedLucy said:
I sometimes wonder if limited social interaction is better or worse than toxic social interaction.
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I don’t wonder at all. Limited is better than toxic if those are your only choices.
Also school is not the only possible source of social interaction for children, and I gather Domer’s son is in eighth grade.
 
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Not to mention that Social Justice is as Catholic as Confession or praying to Saints.
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Good point.

I probably should have verified that’s it’s a more liberal leaning idea of social justice (legalized abortion and same sex marriage) as opposed to a biblical social justice of feed the hungry, house the homeless, etc…
 
He’s a freshman. He hates that girls objectify him and are forward (so much so, they showed him nudies of themselves to try to get a rise out of him). He was repulsed.

So, there is an online cyber school that can get him back on the science track. Also, all his altar boy friends are home schooled, so we will join that group. Altar serving has given him so much confidence. Now I’ll get to take him to daily mass.

One more good thing about cyber school…he won’t have to miss class time once he starts vision therapy, which is affecting his reading. His two eyes don’t work together, and they don’t cross when an object is held up to him. So, that is 6-9 months of twice weekly therapy. Getting a concussion this year was a blessing in disguise!
 
It could just be teenage rebellion, if the teachers are shutting it down then it attracts the attention of others who may copy.
 
Thankfully, it’s the younger teachers that are shutting it down…more of the Communism hammer and sickle drawings/debates, etc. The ISIS stuff probably is rebelling, but it is a subtle taunt to my son, who loves the Catholic faith.

Far different stuff then when I was a teen.
 
Most people I know knew a sickle drawing teen but know very few serious communist adults.
 
Domer90 said:
Well, I think the lockbox is on this decision. Today, there was some type of fundraiser day where you bring in coins for charity, give them to your teachers, and the teachers count them. The more coins the teachers count, the less time they have to teach. Cute fundraiser called stall day.

The weird part my son noticed was the casual talk and drawing of ISIS and communist symbols. Granted, the ISIS stuff was singing of some sort of song led by the troubled girl who likes my kid, but there are other pockets of kids my son doesn’t know grasping communist beliefs. Either way, whether the girl is trying to grab attention or there are kids truly supporting communism, this seems troubling. Teachers shut it down, but then it springs up somewhere else.

If this isolated to Catholic schools only?
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I never heard of such things. I have had 3 in catholic high school not too long ago and this is bizarre.

Freshman students are usually immature though.

Edited to add: its common for teens to draw insignias of popular rock bands. I would search and see what bands have this insignia.
 
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Well, it’s a mute point now because he’s enrolled in a private cyber school for next year.
 
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