The Tyranny of “No Common Sense”
Nobody Wins
When I heard this poor woman say those words...”no note from a doctor” my heart went numb.
Those are the exact same words that were told to my son the first day of his arrival at his Senior Year in high school. They told him to go home. He could not attend because he had no note from his doctor.
What he had was not contagious, and hurt no one.
As you can imagine, at the time, (this was years ago) I could not believe that in America, a school could tell a kid he couldn’t come into the school without a doctor’s note. I had been talking to the school the year before and knew that my son had a sleep disorder….but I never dreamed they would kick him out of school, without a trial, without consulting us, or talking to us, or even working with us.
Unfortunately, the sleep clinic we finally ended up taking him to the summer before his senior year had a psychologist who didn’t see anything wrong with my son. That man was a moron. Later on, after my son was kicked out of school, we took him to the sleep clinic at the very well respected Washington University School of Medicine, who diagnosed him correctly: Yes, his mother was right, he had D.S.P.S.
Delayed Sleep Phrase Syndrome. Basically, you have trouble sleeping. Evidently if the class was boring, he would fall asleep, but have you ever heard a student being kicked out of school because he fell asleep in a classroom?
And by the way, those sleep clinics aren’t cheap.
At the same time, hundreds of black kids from the city were allowed to attend classes at our high school, and even go half days, taking afternoon jobs making solicitor phone calls for high school credit, do their own hours, while my son was treated like this lady: like a criminal.
But…they were black. My son was…white.
Nobody at the high school would help us. At the same time, one of his classmates was found selling dope on the school grounds. Was he kicked out? No. His mother was running for office.
My son had never been in trouble with the police, or in his entire school life. He was not on drugs, and he was at the top of his class in grades. And yet, they kicked him out, simply because they were liberals assholes. It’s as simple as that.
It affected his whole life. He went on and got a GED scholarship, but college was no different….and two years later, the high school sent me a letter saying, “Your son will be allowed to attend now.”
They SAID he quit, but he could come back. That was a boldface lie.
It not only affected my son’s life and his future, I was attacked in ways you could not imagine for trying to get help. I found out, after three years, that corruption goes to the top of the government, and they protect that liberal corrupt system with every fiber of their being. From the media, to the schools, to the government…they all are on the same page. And that page is tyranny.
Okay. As you can see, it still pisses me off. My son was at the top of his class in grades. He wanted to graduate with his class.
You would have THOUGHT they would have given him a hearing of some kind.
Years later, I read The Educating of Henry Adams. It took some of the pain away from that time….but look what I am doing here…I heard that women say those words and immediately the fury from all those years has got me writing this.
As if anybody ever cared. Nobody does. They didn’t then..they don’t now. No the liberal hearts bleed for the ‘unfortunate.’
Poor Lady. She has cancer and she gets kicked off a plane. Good god. What? Did they think she was contagious?
Common sense. Nobody Wins when so few people have it.
In the end, the decision to not let my son in the school was the decision of the very liberal Nazi principal, who was like most of the liberal women you see every day in politics. She didn’t care that she was destroying a young man’s life. …I believe to this day that she got immense pleasure out of destroying mine.
I think, there was much more to it…it was just sheer liberal hatred….of a mother and a son who were…conservative.