My sister is down and out...

by DanTheMan 32 Replies latest jw friends

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  DanTheMan

  I found out today that my nephew's dad and stepmom actually enrolled him in the Christian School over the summer, without even telling my sister about it. And she is supposed to be the decision-making parent when it comes to his education, according to the custody agreement! This is so typical of the Karl Rove tactical savagery that my sister is constantly having to deal with.

  So over the summer they're telling my nephew that he's going to be going to school there, when he knows that my sister has no idea that he is enrolled there and all the talk at her house is about the up and coming school year at Bexley. And they've told him all about how they're getting it worked out so that he can go there, so he's already blowing off school work, etc. at Bexley because he's being led to believe that a transfer is imminent. So if my sister fights it as she very rightly should, once again his dad gets to paint her as being the bad guy. I tell you, this stuff absolutely INFURIATES me, and it depresses the hell out of me too. Why do bad people win in this world.

  The whole thing makes no sense. All along my sister gets bullied by her ex, and now the courts seem to be taking the fucking asshole's side.
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  katiekitten

  And she is supposed to be the decision-making parent when it comes to his education, according to the custody agreement!

  Dan this is truly awful, deceitful and illegal of them.

  Does your sister have the resources to take this issue to court? Surely they cant make any decisions without her even knowing? I would like to think no court would go against its own previous custody agreement.

  Does he want to go to a christian summer school? Why would any kid want to spend his vacation doing more school work with the god squad?

  I really really feel for you. If there were some way your sister could get some advice from a good lawyer.. I know it costs money and raw emotion though. This situation almost feels like kidnapping to me.
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  DanTheMan

  I've got a better handle on what happened exactly now. His dad enrolled him in the fundy school over the summer with the idea that soon enough, it would be worked out that he would go there as part of the new custody agreement. So they considered it a done deal that my sister would compromise in this area if they offered her some extra time with my nephew in return. And unlike my sister, they inform my nephew of every detail of what is going on with the negotiations, but of course always slanted towards "this is what we're fighting to get for you but your big bad mom just won't agree to anything so here's what you need to be telling the guardian ad litem..." etc.

  So as I stated before, we think that my nephew might already be totally blowing off his schoolwork at the public high school because his dad has got it in his head that he will be transferring to the Xtian school any time now.

  The sad part of this is that my nephew is absolutely under his dad's thumb, and willingly goes along with and participates in all the tactical crap that his dad pulls to undermine my sister. It's like, his dad is always forcing him to choose a side, and his bullying, I-can't-possibly-be-wrong personality makes it nearly impossible for my still-developing nephew to think differently from him.

  
  That's all the further I want to discuss this now. It's too upsetting, I need to get my mind of of it.