I attended public school from kindergarten til the third quarter of my freshman year. We lived in a small northern Michigan town. The town had 300 ppl in it, the K-12 school had 400 kids because they pulled in kids from all the little surrounding towns. Our school district was bigger than the state of Rhode Island. We were Christian's and we were outspoken about it. I got bullied alot for being the smart, chubby, Christian kid. My little sister had an incident where a kid threatened to cut her nose off with a pair of scissors. She stood her ground and her and the other kid both got in trouble. My sister never should have been in trouble for standing up for herself. After that my parents pulled us out for a "family emergency leave of absence" or something like that. We prayed as a family for 2 weeks on whether or not we should homeschool. Both my parents and my sister felt like God told them yes. I heard God tell me "Be the ones." I had no idea what that meant but I told them what I heard. They took it as a yes, so after that we never went back. We were the first family to pull their kids out of that school and homeschool. Over the next 2 years 20 families ended up pulling their kids out of that school and going the home school route. Then we knew what "Be the ones" meant. We need to be the ones to take a stand and say enough is enough we won't tolerate this any longer.
One funny story, my mom was a substitute lunch lady at that school while we homeschooled. One day, I don't remember why, when she had to work, she took us with her, and we sat on the back steps of the school kitchen with our books and did school. Well the superintendent drove by and saw us and then went to my mom and told her we couldn't be there. So my sister and I had to walk the 3 miles back home in the middle of the day. It wasn't long after that the school no longer needed my mom as a substitute lunch lady.
Wow, @dwells. That is quite a story. TWENTY families?!!! Good for you!
No wonder you like to be the Ninja of Steemit. ;-)