Punishment for Nothing.

A young boy is punished because he referred to his teacher as ma’am, and not by her preferred title.  To be fair she requested that he not call her that, ma’am,  after he mistakenly used that term before.  The story doesn’t say what her preferred title is or was.

A 10-year-old boy in North Carolina was punished last week for referring to his female teacher as “ma’am.” The incident left his parents both concerned and confused, they told WTVD-TV.

Teretha Wilson noticed her son, Tamarion, seemed upset after leaving the bus Aug. 21 from his school in the town of Tarboro, she told the station. “I asked him what happened. He said he got in trouble for saying ‘yes ma’am’,” Wilson told WTVD’s Michael Perchick.

As a punishment Tamarion had to write out ma’am dozens of times on a piece of paper.  Stupid I know, why not have him write out the preferred title?

The story continues and makes note of the rising number of families that choose to home school their children.  Most do it out of religious reasons but a growing number, like my family, are doing choosing to home school for reasons like the above.  I do not want unwarranted and unwanted interference from the state.  Hence we use the K12 alternative school, offered by WIVA–Wisconsin Virtual Academy.  It cost us nothing more than a regular brick and motar school.  My Daughter’s classes are online and she is excelling in her studies.  She actually enjoys school now.  Her complaint is that not all of her school materials for this coming year have arrived yet.

My wife and I like it because we are very much involved in her studies, and know what transpires in her classroom everyday.  Moreover we are raising a adult child and not a automaton.   There are no snow days, and even sick days have gone the way of the dodo.  She doesn’t fight going to school.  Her school day is very much the same as a college students day.  If you’re a parent and considering a online school, and look before you leap, but by all means consider a K12 school.  All grades kindergarten through 12 are available.  It works best if there’s an adult present during the day.  Sofia, my daughter, would never go back to a traditional one size fits all brick and mortar school.  On line school is not for everybody naturally but for those that are tired of being abused by the system, tired of picking up and dropping off, bullying et al.  Try it for one school year.