Hi, first post and dipping my toe. I know some of this will be controversial, but please, if you disagree or feel shocked, please ignore and move on. Don't drown the feed with objections. I just want to reach out and connect with anyone out there who feels like me. In a world where our opinions and values are, for the moment, becoming ever more fractured, I am just having very real concerns about sending my children to mainstream school. But I think I have the right to act in their best interests as any other parent. I just don't see the value in putting them in an environment that everyday I'm going to have to explain, why Timmy does this, and they don't because of bla and ultimately my kids become the weird ones. So in short, as a core value, I believe in an organic whole foods plant-based lifestyle, and that the over industrialisation of all animal products are the root cause to most suffering in and of our world. Both to human health and our planet. However, I am NOT a vegan, I am a realist. I know the world we live in, so I am extremely competitive and like the finer things in life. You should not be surprised to find me in a 3 star Michelin restaurant ordering the best fillet steak money can buy. Many will not understand how I can reconcile these views, but there may be more like me out there and I want to try to connect with you. (OK, I know you want to try to understand, I think it's just like smoking, when I eat animal products it is a calculated risk which I am taking with my health, as an educated adult.) I think chemotherapy (as a first option) is absolute madness and borders on institutional murder. I think there are a lot more freedoms to be found in our 'democratic' society. I hate any mainstream cancer, heart disease, diabetes or osteoporosis charities - as they are nothing to do with the cause they masquerade behind. The problem is, they permeate into our society like their own cancer and I have no interest in wasting my breathe on a world that doesn't want someone like me highlighting uncomfortable truths. And I'm not going to be that mum like in 'About A Boy' with my children. I believe if you give a child education and logic, they will find their own way. I'm way too practical a person to shove my ideals down anybody's throats. Back to my goal - I don't want to pick my child up from school next to a parent who brings their children sweets at the end of a school day. (And I don't think sugar is bad!) Education should be fun, rewarding and exciting enough for them, or it's being done wrong. Private schools are definitely a better option for someone like me, but the fees are truly astronomical and elitist. And as you can see, I'd probably still disagree with too much, and then get really pissed about the money! What if... there were four or five other sets of parents in my area who feel the same and we club together for our own 'tuition fees', allowing our children to still properly socialise while receiving a curriculum and environment of truth (age appropriate of course) by hiring our own teacher/s. My husband and I work full time, and will need to cover care over the full day. Fascinated to see if anyone is on the same wavelength in Norwich/Norfolk. (Project to start in a few years time from now, did: 18/02/18).
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