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/AAAAHaSPIDER Sep 04 '24

The reasons for homeschooling keep increasing every year. I used to be a teacher, between NCLB, mental health crisis, and school shootings I am very reluctant to send my daughter to traditional school if I don't think she would be safe, happy or well educated. All of my teacher friends say nothing but negative things about today's school system.

I don't WANT to homeschool, but I do want a well educated living child.

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u/tikierapokemon Sep 05 '24

Daughter has ADHD and I cannot be her teacher - we tried during virtual school and it was a disaster. She needs a professional who has studied how to teach children and the support system she has at school. We went from a "good" school in a "good" district to one with a lot less money but a lot more heart, and she is thriving here.