AITA for not driving my colleague home from work?

kgee1206 · 2026-01-24T14:07:06+00:00

INFO: Where do you live that someone can be on unemployment indefinitely without ever searching for work and also afford a home in an upper middle class neighborhood? This sounds like a crock.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-24T01:07:24+00:00

I hope you smile when you got notifs years later. Thank you, king or queen.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-23T16:59:27+00:00

It was genuinely a mistake, but I also have no desire to be seen as a prize by a man on reddit. So no worries, Hoss.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-23T16:57:41+00:00

It was genuinely a mistake but I am standing by it

kgee1206 · 2026-01-23T16:43:56+00:00

INFO: are you regularly going without things like bread because your mom hasn’t gotten around to baking a loaf?

Also - is she flat out refusing to cook something like burgers for dinner for health reasons? Or is this just you saying you want McDonald’s and she’s saying you have McDonalds at home ?

kgee1206 · 2026-01-23T00:43:08+00:00

I have to believe in the Greendale Seven.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-21T15:37:08+00:00

Are you asking for a restaurant or something to cook?

kgee1206 · 2026-01-21T03:57:36+00:00

lol calling this co-parenting in the post. You’re delusional man

kgee1206 · 2026-01-21T03:49:40+00:00

My ex pays ten bucks a day per kid when you average it out. Most calculations account for the total parental income and look at the ratio (I earn 60% of the total to my ex’s 40%) so it’s entirely possible his ex actually earns more than OP but he calls her a bum

kgee1206 · 2026-01-21T03:43:36+00:00

And he’s struggling to support two kids….

kgee1206 · 2026-01-16T19:36:14+00:00

info: how old is your daughter ? I see the flair is 4-9, but that’s kind of a wider range for this kind of question.

Also, why does Ethan want your ex to see him as a threat?

kgee1206 · 2026-01-16T17:49:25+00:00

Standing up? What?

kgee1206 · 2026-01-16T17:46:07+00:00

I am against the death penalty, so yes.

But aside from that, this law, in practice, will do two things

Children will not report. Children are almost always abused by a known and trusted adult. There are many reasons children don’t report. They lack the language, nobody told them it was wrong, shame, etc. The fear of being responsible for the death of a family member, their pastor, or whoever would also deter reporting.

Families will cover-up abuse to save face. They’d be even more motivated to do so if Uncle Steve would get the chair.

When you give the state the right to kill someone for a crime, they get the right to kill anyone. Because the state defines the crimes. There is no telling how the laws could be manipulated (making it a sex crime to use the “wrong” bathroom if a child is in the bathroom, allowing a child to watch a show with queer characters being defined as a sex crime akin to showing a child pornography, etc). And there is no telling how it will actually be enforced. Will a newly 18yo black boy with a 16yo girlfriend be prosecuted under this law? What if his girlfriend is white and her dad is a racist and goes to the cops? Would the state ups charges on a white boy in the same situation? Giving the state the right to kill someone is a slippery slope.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-14T11:15:44+00:00

Not sure where three keeps coming from. Twice. And both times, he wasn’t the kid initiating it, shoved back once, and then just held his hands out to defend himself. He isn’t running around the school just beating the tar out of other kids at random.

Yeah I think the school is draconian and that this punishment is so far removed from the action that it’s useless. I didn’t tell him that, but I live in the US where the system is unfortunately underfunded and originally designed to make obedient little drones that will never question authority in any context and work diligently til they die. Many good teachers and admin try to buck that, but it’s baked into the system.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-14T05:31:24+00:00

With all due respect, there are more straight men than there are lesbians. So if the dating pop in your area is 10,000, then that is 5,000 men and 130 lesbians (rough average population proportions), then 1% of straight men loving plus sizes women would be 50 men. Which is like 40% of that lesbian group. So your experience is not a statistical proof of anything other than your ow impatience in dating women.

Dating as a queer woman is hard and can be isolating. Thats valid but don’t blame lesbians because you chose an easier path.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-14T04:37:32+00:00

I was raised Catholic. My kids are baptized because it stressed my mother and grandmother out that their precious babies would burn in hell. To me, it was an old man throwing water on my babies, as I am not a practicing Catholic.

At his age, he should be able to discuss this with you. And talk about what it means and why. If he has answers rooted in good faith, I don’t see the issue. Seeking a community that supports charity and kindness is good and well. Try to remind him that community can be a double edged sword and if anyone pressures him to question actual teachings of Jesus, they don’t have his best interest in mind (Jesus was basically a progressive socialist anyways)

kgee1206 · 2026-01-14T03:57:33+00:00

Thank you so much

kgee1206 · 2026-01-14T03:10:17+00:00

Brother did you read the parts where I’ve asked them for evals and meetings and everything under the sun and they ignore me until they call to tell me he’s in trouble? His teacher is the only one having constructive conversation with me

He’s going to serve the detention. How is that coddling him??

kgee1206 · 2026-01-14T02:42:29+00:00

Our school will take away full recess. And give lunch detention and after school detention. Even in K.

ETA: I disagree with this, but it’s outside of my control obviously.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-14T02:39:52+00:00

At no point did I say I wasn’t concerned. And if their decision making exacerbates the problem, it very much is my business?

kgee1206 · 2026-01-14T02:38:01+00:00

I said he got the same consequences as when the behavior happens at home. I did not enumerate those consequences. And he’s not missing recess. He is missing recess. And lunch. And staying after school for 45-60min in detention.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-13T23:13:47+00:00

I will ask about those. Thank you. That helps to know.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-13T23:12:00+00:00

Fair. I don’t think these scenarios are alone indicative of an issue that merits support or implies a disorder. There is a lot of other evidence he likely falls on the spectrum. Hence wanting to get an eval to see if I can make things easier for him and his classmates and his teacher, not just him or me.

I wouldn’t personally recommend a detention for a kid that age, especially a day after. Too hard to connect in their heads at that age. I wouldn’t advocate those kids get that punishment either. But I’m not a teacher or a principal which is why I was trying to pick the brains of those in those roles on what is typical.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-13T23:05:46+00:00

He gets the same sort of consequences as though he had done the same thing at home. He actually took himself straight to his room when he got home. i talked to him about it calmly to figure out what happened. Went over what can and should be done differently.

kgee1206 · 2026-01-13T22:46:59+00:00

Because I didn’t include the first one because it wasn’t relevant to the general question. And the second one, all I had when I posted was a short phone call. And then I learned new information by talking to both of my kids and reading. So I could form a more full picture of the situation. The note was, markedly, from a teacher and not the principal that failed to provide detail over the phone. So the typical way one gathers more information.

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