Safe at Home

I may have to stop reading the Children with Diabetes website.  It tears me up every single time I read a story about parents having to battle with schools and daycare centers to get proper care for their children with diabetes.  Every. Single. Time. I want to shout out, “You have another choice!”

For most of those folks, though, there isn’t another choice.  All they see is their child being discriminated against and they are going to get those schools to comply one way or another.  They are caught up in their child’s RIGHTS instead of thinking about what their child NEEDS.  In my most very humble opinion, I would NOT want my child’s health to be dependent on an adult that had to be FORCED into taking that responsibility by threats of a lawsuit.   I doubt I will ever “get it”.  *sigh*

Additionally, most of them are ignorant of what home education looks like in practice, still thinking that homeschoolers are socially isolated twits that never so much as peak out the front door.  A handful have tried it, without making any connections to other homeschoolers in their area.  They quit after a semester or two, calling the experiment a failure because their child was lonely without ever discovering the joys of home education:  the flexible schedule, the many different methods of teaching at home, and the diverse population that homeschools…

Such an emotional issue.  I’m a newbie and my view is colored by the fact that I’d already taken responsiblity for my children’s education, long before the life-changing diagnosis.   Somehow I think my words would fall on deaf ears (blind eyes?) if I were to say anything.  So I’ll go hang out with my online homeschooling buddies.  I much prefer preaching to the choir.