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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 16:14:18 EDT lnxw48a1
   I'm going to share this link with #sonTwo. https://nu.federati.net/url/220657 (I forgot he was in a Summer program at college before changing from his public middle school to a charter school.)
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 16:22:36 EDT lnxw48a1

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      #sonTwo was in too many fights as a 6th grader, even though "fight" was him standing there and letting someone else hit him. The school threatened to send him to the county's juvenile detention center for his daily classes.
      
      Meanwhile, #Daddy_A's school was near a racially-troubled high school, and the bigger kids' mass fights (school district: "they were not race riots") spilled over onto his campus, so he was afraid to go back.
      
      Thank God for charter schools. Neither one of them would have made it without them.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 16:34:14 EDT lnxw48a1

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         I was already thinking about the educational pathways each child followed because I saw the discussion that sean and andrew (both of retro.social) had about home-schooling. When I saw that article, it was a "how do you forget this?" moment.
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 16:50:58 EDT lnxw48a1

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            So #sonOne was really short in early high school. He was also in a lot of fights, if you can imagine someone the size of a 4th or 5th grader fighting against 10th graders. He had a mouth on him, so I don't doubt that he brought some of it on himself.
            
            Once he got into the district's continuation school program, he was able to move forward, eventually returning to the high school for his last semester.
            1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2019 17:54:55 EDT GeniusMusing

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               @lnxw48a1 Seems little wonder why the education system in the US is so messed up.