School Drama

Being a kid is tough, you have all this pressure on you about finding out where you belong. If you're like me you spend way too much time worrying about that and less time focusing on school. Being 100% honest if I could do it again I'd tell younger me not to try to fit in because it's not really worth it in the end, but those grades actually matter! This is honestly something I fear my kids repeating Callie already hates school and throws fits when she has to go. Did I mention she's in preschool? You know that thing where you just go play, have snacks, make friends, and learn a little bit? Yea she hates it. I'm not exaggerating when I say she would rather do ANYTHING else, it all goes back to her teacher treating her like a boy. When I brought it up to the school board I was informed in our area there is no law saying they have to treat my daughter as a girl, wonderful right? That means my little girl would still be classified as a "boy" no matter what action I took. This forced my fiancé and I to think of some really big things involving Callie's future. We need her to like school, we need her to be protected, and we need her teacher and the rest of the staff at the school to be on her team. We don't currently have that and probably won't find it unless we move or homeschool. We're currently looking for a new home in a better distract-possibly state even-where they have transgender rights in place at their school(if you know of any I'd love to know where they are!) but right now our only option for kindergarten is homeschooling. Don't get me wrong homeschooling isn't bad, it isn't less than public school, but I know how I did in homeschool because of my lack of interest in school. I sucked! I saved all my homework until last minute, literally if it was due at 6am the next day I squeezed out my work at 5am, I don't want that for her. The other reason I have an issue with homeschooling her, it shows that the haters won. I don't want to teach her to give up without a fight, but don't want her to be subjected to bullying especially from her teachers. We have already met with the kindergarten teachers at the school she would go to and were told she would be treated as a boy-using the boy's restroom, sitting in the boys' seat-boy girl seating-, and so much more. I've spoken to some other moms in this situation and they have all told me the same thing, I have to fight, but honestly right now I just want to go get my kid from school and homeschool her for the rest of her life or at least until we can move to a place that realizes transgender people are just like the rest of us and deserve the same respect and basic rights like going to the school of their choice. Unfortunately that's not happening today, but hopefully sometime soon there will be a law passed that you can't discriminate against transgender youth in the school setting.