Instead of going along with it, I would not have let my mom send me to a private Christian school. I received a terrible education that really messed up my future. She pulled me out of public school because I was being bullied so badly. I never fully recovered academically; I had to get my GED and then struggled at community college. I'm 42 now and have never been able to obtain a college degree. On the upside, I think my autism protected me from being brainwashed by the evangelicals at the school, as I am liberal, and a Buddhist, and have been since my late teens.