SHAKIN' BABY SYNDROME

That is what I am calling it. The story is long and details really do not matter, let me just do a summary.
The school required birth certificates for the kids to start, could not find 2 of them. Sent to the state for copies, it was COVID time and it took forever to get them, we barely got them to the school before the kids were to be kicked out.

School year is now over. Very pleased that kids got to go, no masks, no barriers, just school. But the school officials gave us attitude all year. OK, whatever...
Well, a couple days ago, the secretary finds she does not have birth certificates. I cannot know why. I KNOW she had them, I was the one who, last fall, removed them from a kid's backpack with a sticky note from the secretary, a few days after the documents were sent to school. Did she misfile them? Throw them out to be a bitch? I can't know. All I know is what she chose to do:

She sent an email to us and the parents threatening to call the law on us and charge us with kidnapping if we do not get her the documents. Rather than simply call and ask for another copy, she went straight to "I can totally fuck with your life."

This is not a teacher. This is a paper pusher. The one who is in charge of scrutinizing each child as though they were a piggy bank and trying to determine how much Federal money they can shake out of it. At the start of the year, they asked us to fill out papers to get free lunches. We did not, we said "We will just pay." They said. "Oh, well, because of COVID they all get free lunch anyway. And breakfast." The paper work was simply for shakin' babies. Poor babies pay better than middle class ones.

They called the parents in and said they thought the beta twin was autistic. She is not at all, absolutely no actual sign of autism. She is the beta twin, she lets her sister have all the glory and she just does her own little thing. The alpha twin LOVES school and teacher praise, the beta one likes to draw and work on farm equipment with Grandpa. But if we get her diagnosed (and drugged!) there is money, somebody has to shake the babies, right? Labeled and drugged babies pay better than merely introverted ones.

Now, the teachers know how to play their role in the game, but they need a firewall of "I just care about the children" to hide behind, so schools find a little tyrant who is EAGER to disrupt a family - you know - "For the (Federal funding I can get by labeling and drugging the) children." And this is probably the most conservative school in rural Idaho. If you are sending your kids to public schools, PLEASE stay alert for Shakin' Baby Syndrome.

We are home schooling now. And in a few days I should be able to stop shaking.

Back side of Mt Howard in Joseph, Oregon. Taken with my cell phone. Has nothing to do with the story.
Namaste!