My daughter started her school year. I'm disappointed that after I went to the trouble of creating a very nice transcript for her documenting what she's done during the last year, they still went ahead and put her in freshman classes though she's supposed to be a sophomore. I feel like she's being discriminated against because she attended a private school last year (our homeschool).

I'm planning to go to the school board meeting to ask what the plan is in case the president declares a Red Alert. As you probably know during a Red Alert all citizens are to stay indoors while the school children are transported to an unknown location. Naturally I'm uncomfortable with the thought that our government will kidnap our children en masse and not tell us where they are. Since I live in a very small community it makes no sense to me. There's not much likelihood that our part of the country would be chosen for an attack.

I'll let you know how the school district responds to my question.

My daughter is very much against the draft and one of our projects this last year was to create a website about this issue. Draft Protest.

I was happy to hear she's spreading the word at school. In her weblog she wrote that in Freshman Social Studies the teacher was telling the class that when they are 18 they should be registered for Selective Services and get ready to be drafted to "go out and kill people" for us. My daughter was outraged and spoke up then and there to say, "That's stupid." Yes, she disrupted class but I was proud of her for speaking out against the teacher's "kill people" comment.

My daughter recognizes that the other kids are sheep-brained from all their years of public education training. None of them thought to protest the teacher's brainwashing that "killing is good - we do it for the government". Well, maybe she can help the other kids learn something about what's really going on in this country.

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