Dumb broads and home education
April 23rd, 2005I told some of this story in a couple of comments at Vox’s, but I want to tell the whole story.
My neighbors are very nice people. Good neighbors, hard working, etc. They have many hangers-on and because they are so generous their house is a revolving door. Sometimes, I can’t keep track from one day to the next who’s living there and who’s just visiting. The homeowners are a man and his wife. They have one son.
The woman that lives there has a sister. She has three kids. The oldest is four, the next is three and the third is an infant. The baby has a different father than the other two and neither father is in the picture, at all.
Last weekend they had a birthday party for the boy that lives there. He was turning six.
Loser Broad first picked a fight with me by saying, “I don’t go for no ‘no-strings’ relationships. You wanna hook up with me, you’re gonna pay some bills.” (PLEASE note that I was only standing around witnessing the conversation up to that point! I was NOT involved. She was also smoking pot and I wasn’t.)
So I said, “There’s a name for that. It’s called ‘prostitution.’”
For some reason she didn’t like that. Truth hurts, I guess.
A few minutes later she literally gets in my face. I was a bit startled and stepped back. Turned out she was just trying to make our conversation private so she could say, “Mark, PLEASE put those girls in school!”
“MY girls?”
“Yeah.”
“No. Not a chance and I really don’t wanna have this conversation with you right now.” (We were at a party.)
“I know you’re a really smart guy and you can teach them everything they need to know, but they’re not going to learn the social skills they need from you.”
At that point, I turned behind me and pointed to the bounce house about 20 feet away where my kids were playing with about 5 others, including hers (this was a birthday party) and said, “Does it look to you like they’re lacking social skills?”
“But our schools here are some of the best ANYWHERE!”
“It’s a funny thing about that white speck on the top of chicken shit. It’s still shit.”
“OK. This conversation is over!”
“Thank God! I was wondering what it would take to get it through to you.”
While she’s lecturing me, her oldest is the same age as my youngest. My four year old is reading and doing basic addition and subtraction in her head. Her four year old can barely speak an intelligible sentence. Her three year old is worse. His speech sounds like my daughters at 18 months, though I recently learned that he has a hearing impairment. Little excuse, when you consider that it was probably her fault. Chain smoking, drinking and pot are not good for fetal development.
You’re lecturing ME?!?!
This “Loser Broad” was smoking pot at a kid’s birthday party? Dear God, did she at least have the sense to do so in private? I’m sorry but being high around kids is at best negligent, though I would call it child abuse. I’d report that Sack O’Crap Loser Broad to local authorities. God only knows what kind of men she is hooking up with to pay her bills. She obviously is too stupid to see the danger in allowing non-blood males around her children and I’m pretty sure she’s not screening the men she is using.
I feel sorry for the children she has possession of, but I were that I were entrusted with some, wouldn’t want my daughters learning “social skills” from hers in a mandatory daycare center.
And from experience, there’s no screening of the males going on, save for “does he like to get high?” and “does he have money?”
I commend you for home educating your girls. As a single parent, it is not easy, and I know that from past experience. You keep hanging in there. This woman has not one basis for harassing you about that and it sure wasn’t her business. She sounds like a real piece of work!
A great article on socialization is here:
http://www.tnhomeed.com/LRSocial.html
Maybe copies of this would be appropriate to hand out to those who harass you for not giving your daughters “opportunity” for “socialization.” I opt out for my children to be socialized across the spectrum of ages instead of just their peer group. That is turning out to be a disastrous experiment in my opinion and sad that it is foist on people as the only option.
Love and shalom,
Serena
Unbelievable. Doing drugs is not a life skill you want to pass onto your children. So maybe hers are better in a public school.
You are awesome to be homeschooling your girls as a single parent. Do not weary in doing good… There is a reward for you.
Do you have full custody of your girls? Or, do you school them at night? How does this break down for you, if that’s not too personal?
Social skills?
Like how to roll a joint.
Some things are better not learned.
Maybe the children of this woman ARE better off in a public school. At least that way, they’re out of her reach a few hours a day.
Maybe the children of this woman ARE better off in a public school. At least that way, they’re out of her reach a few hours a day.
I disagree. I get your point, but I don’t think a government solution is ever a solution. At best her kids are getting more of the same indoctrination they get from her to become the same kind of loser she is. At worst, they’re poisoning the place for the other kids.
The fact is, all of us who are parents are always teaching our kids and they learn from us far more readily than any school. Her kids are screwed regardless because their mother’s a dolt. Doesn’t seem right to inflict them on the rest of the community because she’s too lazy to raise them. On the other hand, our schools here are ranked in the top 10 nationwide for academics and athletics. Most of the kids at the school are “rich kids” whose parents both drive Lexus SUVs to their jobs so they can make the payments on the $15,000 in-ground pool they financed. So they deserve to have Loser’s kids inflicted on them. They chose it.
I feel sorry for their kids because mommy and daddy don’t love them.
Social skills?
Like how to roll a joint.
Some things are better not learned.
Her kids can learn that at home.
I’m sorry, DC! I have no clue about blogging ettiquitte–apparently I’m learning. I’m in person pretty shy, and didn’t want to knock over any tables (whatever that means).
My state is rampant with crystal meth labs. Children are taken from these poison factories every day. They go directly to the hospital and are not allowed to take clothing, toys, schoolbooks, or any other possessions from the home—because the chemicals used to cook up the meth are themselves so poisonous and then the fumes produced during “cooking” are poisonous. They stay on surfaces and in the human body for a long time. And the parents are so hyped up on meth—they often lose parental rights b/c they don’t show up for court dates. And their kids might just be the one thing that inspires them to climb out of the pit of meth addiction. It’s so sad…
DC,
I back you 100%.
What I find telling is that, while she didn’t like being called a prostitute, she didn’t argue it. She’s a prostitute and she knows it.
I think she just wanted to trade you, tit-for-tat, one insult for another. Could she possible believe that you feel as bad about homeschooling your girls as she does about whoring? If you are living right, the truth doesn’t hurt.
Maybe this was a case of the pot calling the sterling urn shiny.
Incredible how welfare trash like that have all the problems of the productive they are living off of thoughtlessly solved:
“Yeah, man…jus’ be a freeloading looter like me, man…Ya know?”
(FX: Long, loud buzzer indicating you just got run)
WRONG ANSWER!
I don’t have many problems for your argument in this post. However, what you describe as prostitution in this post also applies to your posts about marriage and women’s place in the world.
That is why I believe in marriage as a partnership.