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June 24, 2009 |
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Surviving Homeschooling
FOUND by Jean
in St. Paul, MN
This list of "pros and cons" was in a book called Surviving Homeschooling. Found in a second-hand book store.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Should I get a job, marry that no-good non-believer Gary, or get a disease? At least with the public schools, I can get the kids and their damned insecurities out of the house for a few hours.
Oh, poor thing. I just barely survived being home-schooled too. And of course I still have major insecurities I won't deal with.
This is surely the outline plot for a novel that someone's been working on. I bet it's that Paul Auster again.
Maybe "pros" and "cons" are abbreviations
It's Professionals vs convicts today on wipeout.
I support going to the support group @ Woodale. Especially for anyone who has to debate the pros and cons of having a job.
Then again, if the list-maker was home-schooled, then she's got way more talent that dumb old Gary and his major insecurities. Maybe she doesn't need a job.
And anyone who doesn't end a note like this with a little smiley face, or doesn't put hearts under her exclamation points and questions marks probably IS suicidal.
I never could have home schooled my kids, when they started school--it was literally the only time I had away from them and still is, pretty much. According to Chicago, everybody needs a little time away.
Your kids are going to turn out screwed up anyway, might as well send them off with the others for quality blending. Is mom afraid Gary will turn out to be average/normal? Diseases are nature's way of thinning the herd, lets all catch one!
Hannah was so tired of her insecure son Gary. He was making her suicidal and she was considering the support group at Woodale. Should she get a job and let someone with experience teach her kid? But he was just so insecure! Maybe he could catch a disease...
Hannah was so tired of her insecure son Gary. He was making her suicidal and she was considering the support group at Woodale. Should she get a job and let someone with experience teach her kid? But he was just so insecure! Maybe he could catch a disease...
Based on the handwriting, the placement, and the breif description of Gary, I'm almost 100%positive that I know who wrote this, and who it was about. Gary, for the record, is not her son...
Mom wants a job because she isn't happy trapped at home with the kids and she'd like to buy some things with her own money, but Dad (Gary) is insecure and controlling. He wants his wife at home teaching the kids his values while he is out working and earning the money. He doesn't want her spending "my money" on items she selects without first getting his approval. It doesn't matter if his wife goes insane and the wife and kids have to dress from second hand stores as long as he feels like he's in charge. Mom's going to a support group. Hurrah for home schooling.
I hope Gary pulled his head out and the kids got to go to school and Mom got to get a job.
whatdreadeye, you hit it right on.
I actually personally know a lady who, this year, faked a disease to get OUT of homeschooling her kids. I felt sad for her, knowing that she had to present something so dramatic to make her own choices in life. That's the conservative Christian life for you, or in this particular case, Mormon life.
LOOK GARY,
either get a diseas or get a job. i value raising my kids, and i dont need your insecurities! stop using me for my money, i signed you up for a support group for your problems. YOU MAKE ME WANT TO KILL MYSELF!!!
that is the only message i got out of this confused peice of paper.
Whatdreadeye in Lynnwood- Wow. That post could just as easily have come from me. Exactly where I was (and also close to Lynnwood at the time). scary.
Remember Andrea Yates, the "mom" who drowned all her kids, one by one, in the bathtub? I imagine her notes-to-self probably started out something like this one.
You know something that kind of cracks me up? (but not in a good way- in that nervous, pit in the bottom of my stomach sort of way.) All those commercials for antidepressants that include warnings that the meds may cause suicidal thoughts and ideations. WTF? How can that possibly be an improvement?
These are Natalie's notes to self before she confronted Gary with this Find from last year:
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/4724
Gary is a square.
his insecurities + my insecurities
It is easier to point out another's insecurities and say that they won't deal with it.
I am in favor of the support group. And make sure they are all non-believers.
Nightingale, that's hilarious. You have such a good memory, it's exactly perfect.
I also, am in favour of a support group with nonbelievers. I don't think it helps, when you're in crisis mode, to be told to 'let go and let god'. Reminds me of the joke about the guy on the roof during a flood, who prayed to god for help...
@ Mona..been there...."if you had enough faith in God, you would be ok.."
blah!
@Mona, not a great memory, I just LOVE to use the "search archives" feature! (Above left.)
so then rin tin tin, lets us know. don't just say you know what happened and who it is. change the names to protect the innocent and spit it out. cause this whole mysterioso thing is kind of irritating. it is like saying "i know something you don't know, but i'll give you a hint, it's not her son" come on rin tin tin in st paul, let us know its provenance.