I don't know what to say other than that these people are shaping our future generation. I don't mean to sound like a snob, but this is why kids need real teachers.

I'm going to be a bit judgmental but every person that I have known that home schools are usually a bit off/crazy.  My own mother has custody of my nephew and recently started home schooling him b/c he has some health problems (not that would actually prevent him from going to school but I think my mom decided it was to much work and she hates the testing/state testing/yada yada yada).  I also think my own mother is a bit crazy.  She was definitely a HCBM with my dad and she still complains about my SM who didn't even enter our lives until 20 years after my parents divorced!!!! Oh and the other person I know that homeschools is the lady down the street whose daughter plays with SD.  She is constantly going off on people/neighbors for stupid crap.  SD is like the only kid she likes other than her own daughter so there is def something wrong with her!  

Co-worker called me while I was on vacation.  The office printer had run out of paper and she had documents to print.   It got to be standard that she would call every time I was off with some similar "emergency."  Then one day she happened to mention to the boss that she had called me with a question.  He told her, "Stepped works very hard when she is here and so we don't bother her when she is away from the office." 

OFFLOADERS. . .dangerously UNqualified, lazy people who have egos the size of Jupiter.   Who like to suck up to NEW bosses who don't know any better (they soon find out) and are always asking ME to do their work for them.

These people make EXHORBITANT salaries (county IT) have no skills past 1985 computers and always ask me the stupidest questions:

1.  What's the number to Dell support?

2.  Can you run diags for me on so and so's hard drive (user that THEY are supposed to be handling)

3.  I've never been trained (have never done) this or that  (SERIOUSLY???!! Neither have I--JUST.DIVE.IN)

They expect ME to be a walking GOOGLE for them.      LMGTFY.com   !!!!

The most recent boondoggle is that they got rid of the administrative assistant in our office (who was doing a LOT of the work) answering phones, assigning trouble tickets, inventory, paying bills, answering the front door, ordering supplies.  Instead they promoted a woman in the office to computer tech who is not qualified to be an administrative assistant, let alone be in IT.   But the men of IT are falling all over themselves "helping her" because of certain "attibutes" she has.  I have to tell her about 4 or 5 times how to do something and it still doesn't stick!  They are just now starting to see the light (her now immediate boss who used to flirt with her--fun for flirting but not so great as an actual employee--who knew?)

Meanwhile the phone goes unanswered, users are calling me DIRECTLY because the helpdesk line never gets answered, bills aren't being paid, tickets aren't being assigned.  The wheels are falling off.

Are those the GUBMs who think that going to school  is optional, period?  Like the Girhippo's brood; all three of which especially SD and YSS were chronically truant?  Their children as sooooo "special" that they will have the world handed to them on a silver platter if they can just find the right victim like mommy did.

Interesting in regards to homeschooling communities.

In my state, homeschooling isn’t difficult to do, but there are laws and standardized testing, of course. It’s also a southern state with very low public school ratings, so a lot of people choose to homeschool if they want to provide their child(ren) with a good education. Other option being private school. 

In my experience with people / children who homeschool in my city, it’s a good bit of doctors with 5 or 6 children in the home. The children tend to be more outgoing, mature, and above average intelligence, too. 

OMG! Super attendant! BM actually once wrote a letter to the Super Attendant of our school district! She cc'd DH in to show him how important she is, stepping up as a parent to get the boys tested for learning disabilities (which they don't have- their problem is shitty parenting).

I work for a social services agency, and I can't even begin to describe the level of idiocy I face every damn day...and not from my clients, but from the staff!

One of my coworkers recently called in sick because her kid's parakeet died and she needed to make burial arrangements. *ROFL* 

Another called in because she couldn't start her car.... She lives three blocks from the office. Guess she thought the boss wouldn't know that, especially when she walks home for lunch every day?

I shake my head daily.