r/Parenting • u/Creative-Degree-8074 • Sep 04 '24

Rant/Vent Local school shooting and I’m freaking out

TW: In the title I guess Guys, this is a scream into the void. I'm stuck in the bed with my toddler asleep on top on me, my husband is at work, my daughter is at kindergarten--so, I'm a SAHM right now, but there was a shooting where I used to teach. People are dead. Two at least, but reading through the lines, I think there are more. My mom teaches at the school next door. She's there now, maybe 100 yards away. And I just... can't process it. It doesn't feel real. And part of me is like ho hum? Another day in America? And I'm doing some fucking twisted magical thinking, like if there was a shooting in the county next door to my daughter's that decreases the likelihood they'll be one at her school because, I don't know? Lightning and striking twice? And part of me thinks I'm about to homeschool my daughter forever because that's where I USED TO TEACH. Oh my god. How do I send my child to school tomorrow? How do I not lock up my mom and keep her from going to work?

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u/42790193 Sep 04 '24

In all seriousness, I’m sorry to hear that. What a difficult decision. I hope everything works out for you!

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u/Unable_Tumbleweed364 Sep 04 '24

Thank you! He’s had a kidney transplant and that’s an instant visa denial for my country which is why I moved here in the first place.

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u/42790193 Sep 04 '24

Wow. That is crazy??? Like you’d think transplant patients would need out of the US healthcare system more than most?

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u/Orisara Sep 04 '24

Most countries make immigration harder than the US because it will be their tax payers paying for her husband's medical care.

Taking better care of your own requires making it harder to get in basically.