<p>Is anyone surprised that these kids would have rage issues? </p>
<p>[Two</a> Gosselin Kids Expelled From School: Report](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Two Gosselin Kids Expelled From School: Report | HuffPost Entertainment)</p>
<p>If it’s true, I feel very sorry for them.</p>
<p>Ratings for the Alaska "special are bad. She is done. Book sales–nothing. Tour dates falling off. Show in the toilet. Bye Kate, we won’t miss you a bit.</p>
<p>Wow, what a shame. And this honestly doesn’t surprise me. Having their lives constantly filmed cannot be good for these kids’ development.</p>
<p>How sad … those poor children. Their parents were so busy chasing fame & fortune that they sacrificed the family’s privacy. I guess it doesn’t surprise me that the kids are acting out, but it’s sad just the same.</p>
<p>It’s even sadder that the expulsion of two six year olds makes the national news, regardless of what family they belong to. Imagine growing up and knowing that when you were six years old your behavior was all over the internet and tv news and the subject of conversation around the office.<br>
I work with lots of six year olds. Sometimes their behavior is very colorful indeed. But the six year olds that I work with have the happy advantage of being allowed to mature, change, grow in the relative privacy of their families and schools. Every morning is a new day and a chance to start fresh. I wish the Gotlin kids could have that opportunity.</p>
<p>I just can’t imagine Kate being happy about them being at home with her all day now. SHe never appeared to me to be the type of Mom that even enjoyed being around her children when they were filming. </p>
<p>I am sure the headline will be next week which new private school they are enrolled in. I believe they attend private schools to start with, and traditionally private schools IMPO are more lenient on behavioral issues than public. For a private to expel them at 6 yo should be a big wake up call to her, that they are lashing out at something, or that because their whole life they have been the center of attention they cannot take it when they are just like every other 6 yo. </p>
<p>I do recall her saying the kids were crying when the Jon and Kate show was cancelled. I wonder if it was these 2 who felt that way, and this is just their typical behavior.</p>
<p>If I were her, I would say, shows over, we need to really be a family and live a traditional life. However, if she did that she would no longer have all of those free trips and no need for her bodyguard, which would then be a problem for her personally.</p>
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<p>Definitely not our experience. The publics rarely expel kids. By law, kids are entitled to a public education. No one is entitled to be enrolled at a private. At our kids’ schools, there would be a whole lot of families ready and willing to take that spot if a kid had to leave. If you are a true discipline problem, you are out-no tuition refund either.</p>
<p>In our last 2 school districts (VA and NC), they are not formally expelled, but are transferred to the school that exists only for disciplinary issues.</p>
<p>What I was inferring about was that publics who have a system like ours are quick to transfer kids out of the school very quickly. First, they will transfer them into what is called a “contained” class, and if they still have problems they are transferred out of the school.</p>
<p>Here for our privates, many of the teachers get upset because the child that was transferred to the contained class or the other school, will then pull them out and enroll them in private to circumvent the system. It is rare that these kids are then asked to leave, until it becomes apparent of the issue. I have a friend who played this game for yrs, because she refused to acknowledge that the child had issues…it was always the teacher or the school’s fault. By the time the child was in 6th grade she had attended 3 different schools. She had been off the radar for public long enough that her Mom enrolled her in 6th at the public middle school. By the end of 6th grade she was in jeopardy of being transferred to the discipline school, so Mom started the private school again, unfortunately, there was only one private middle, and by 8th grade her DD was shipped off to live with her aunt since the private had asked her to leave too. However, she managed to stay in private twice as long as public.</p>
<p>I did take the leap with my assumption that most public school systems have the contained classes and/or the non-traditional school that exists for disciplinary reasons.</p>
<p>Either way, being expelled by Nov. is a big issue for one 6 yo, let alone 2. Schools at the grade are usually much more lenient when it comes to behavioral issues than they are at say 4th/5th grade. </p>
<p>I read she said people were making more of this than what it was, which made me think to myself…you keep thinking that Kate if it makes you feel better, the majority of Americans know that if your child is expelled at 6 it is a problem, and your children need help. </p>
<p>That is what ticks me off about her. She could do so much for families with issues like this by being honest and open about her life. Hiding it only continues to portray the negative image that young children are acting out because they were born that way. There are children especially in cases of divorce that act this way as their outlet for their frustration which they do not know how to verbalize. Be a spokesperson for all of those parents by showing how you can work through it with help. Don’t play the game of it is not a big deal.</p>
<p>Kate wants people to buy into the illusion that they are the Partridge family. It is also hypocritical to say this is a family matter. Guess what Kate, you can’t ask for privacy when you opened the door into your family’s life. You can’t say leave my kids alone, when you use them as a source of income. Seriously, does she think she would have ever had a show or that home if it was not for the fact she had 8 kids? Does she think she would have had books and speaking arrangements if she only had the twins? Of course not! She prostituted her children, and as Rev. Wright said…the chickens are coming home to roost!</p>
<p>I only hope that in 10 yrs from now we don’t hear/read headlines of Gosselin children being arrested for drugs and DUIs, like so many child actors.</p>
<p>The father comes out and says he wants his kids off TV, that it’s bad for them. Yet he has no job, no income, and pays no child support. From where I’m sitting, the mother is trying to generate income for her very large family. We may not approve of the source – a TV show – but it’s a helluva lot more than that whiny, adolescent father is doing.</p>
<p>Supposedly the Gosselins made 75K an episode. I am sorry, but if they were smart and invested that money, she could easily live off the interest alone (assuming 75K x 13 episodes). Plus, J &K +8 are still in reruns, which means royalty checks and how many books did she have on the best seller list, or how many speaking arrangements at 10K+ did she have over the course of this show. Then, throw in all of the free crap they got, like those doll houses and the solar panels or her belly tuck, and I have no pity for them if they can’t survive on interest alone. </p>
<p>Let’s remember during the course of the show they lived in 3 homes, and each home got bigger and snazzier. Sorry Kate, join us mere mortals…downsize if you can’t afford to live off the interest, instead of schlocking your kids. </p>
<p>Their kids are not going to public schools, they are going private. How much does that cost? She eventually admitted she had nannies and personal chefs. She also has her own bodyguard. That tallies a pretty penny. Cut back on your expenses instead of schlocking your kids to maintain your lifestyle. What was the gossip about her hair extensions…they cost like 750 bucks? Be like us mere mortals, grow your hair out. The woman is tan 365 days a yr, how much does that cost? </p>
<p>Sorry, but if my kids are acting out in such a manner that has caused them to get expelled at 6 yo. I would rethink my life and my priorities. Cut out the nanny, housekeeper, chef and body guard, live off the royalties and interest of your investments, and go back to nursing if you have to, to pay the bills. She lives a very nice life without a lot of perks all because of this show. Do you think she would ave been on DWTS if it wasn’t for the show?</p>
<p>The kids need to come first, however, as I said earlier if she did quit the show that means no more trips to AK, or Bald Head Island. It means she will no longer be stalked going to the grocery store, and thus her bodyguard would be unemployed.</p>
<p>Heck, I have never read any of her books, but if she quit the show tomorrow and wrote a book about the damage it had done to put her kids out there and how she had to work to fix that damage. That would be a book I would buy. I am not talking about her discussing the salacious gossip, I am talking about an introspective look of how Americans desire for voyeurism has a negative impact on the people that open their doors.</p>
<p>Top private schools do not tolerate behavioral issues. My kid was kicked out of private pre-school. It didn’t make national news, though.</p>
<p>Yeah, maybe she should think about selling off her $1.3 million house sitting on 36 acres of land before she talks about how every new moneygrubbing celebrity move is “for the CHILDREN! <em>fake sobbing</em>”</p>
<p>What were the names of those Canadian quintuplet girls? When they were grown they had some very thoughtful writings about the voyeurism they’d been subjected to.</p>
<p>You’re speaking of the Dionne quintuplets. Theirs was a sad lesson - they did not grow up in a regular home, but in an exhibit “home” where they were observed by others, including the public, much of the time. Here’s a little of what they had to say to other parents of multiples.
<a href=“http://gosselinswithoutpity.blogspot.com/2008/07/open-letter-from-dionne-quintuplets.html[/url]”>http://gosselinswithoutpity.blogspot.com/2008/07/open-letter-from-dionne-quintuplets.html</a></p>
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<p>Again, my point, if she is paying top dollar for private school then she has excess money. She needs to decide which is more important the money or the kids.</p>
<p>She is not living in a shack in a podunk town in a state that is the bottom of the barrel for education. </p>
<p>She has a lot of options, more options than most do. </p>
<p>Don’t tell America your kids are the most important thing, but jet back in forth from CA to be on DWTS. Seriously, why did she do that show? She stated she was gone away from her kids at least 4 days a week. Who was taking care of them, not her obviously!</p>
<p>Again, I just don’t like how she tries to portray this image of being a great Mom when her actions don’t match up to the image. That is not even discussing tabloids of her getting tanned and nails done on Easter or trick or treating with the kids.</p>
<p>I remember watching that show yrs and yrs ago, and how hard she was on the twin girls. I use to cringe…even the confessionals were heartbreaking when she would degrade Maddy. All it ever made me think was, you do realize one day Maddy is going to see this and throw it back in your face of how you said negative things to strangers around the world about her. Can you imagine Maddy at 13 googling her parents and watching on line the viterol that Kate had when discussing her when they were in Hawaii making cookies or something, or the time she reprimanded her over the violin? Or the ice cream at Disney?</p>
<p>How about the rest of the kids when they get to see how Mom freaked out on their Dad over the 4th of July because they didn’t have matching rain coats. Or how she called him to tell him he needs to leave work to take care of the kids since she was getting her hair done to go to Disney and the car still needed to be packed.</p>
<p>Or the fact she returned the dogs after he left?</p>
<p>They grossed me out a long time ago…I think the OMG moment of you are off the rocker as parents is when they allowed their kids to use port a potties in the car every day. UCK, YUCK, how unsanitary, bu here is a women that has kids eating with bibs at the age of 4. Or when she stated that she video taped the 1st BM in the port a potty for each kid and TLC showed the footage. Yep, that is what every 25 yo wants to watch…a video of their 1st BM in a toilet.</p>
<p>I feel these kids got the short end of the stick, because both parents care more about themselves than anyone else in that family.</p>
<p>Dear Kate… I think karma just called.</p>
<p>Those kids are going to need so, so much therapy.</p>
<p>Curiosity, does anyone know if she was forced to put X amount in a kiddie trust fund like child actors, or did they get to keep the entire kaboodle?</p>
<p>Can you imagine, if she got to keep the entire thing, and 15 yrs from now they need to apply for FA for college because she blew through it on nannies, chefs, body guards, hair weaves, tanning and manicures?</p>
<p>Of course they would get a ton of FA if she did blow threw it since 8 kids in college 2 yrs apart would be the biggest factor.</p>
<p>Yet, the headlines would read KATE + 8 TAKE FEDERAL FUNDS TO PAY FOR COLLEGE…kind of like the HICCUP girl indicted for murder this past week.</p>
<p>Am I also the only one wondering why she has yet to see TLC exploited her family? She only got Kate + 8 because of the tabloids. </p>
<p>Again, I have no respect for her if she says they are using my family for tv because I am using them for a paycheck.</p>
<p>I think she is a media whore. Jon can be a deadbeat, but from what I have read he has weekend visitation and he isn’t selling out his kids.</p>
<p>The choice is between these 2:
Deadbeat Dad</p>
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<p>Mom that sells us out for $$$</p>
<p>Gee, that seems like an easy choice…NOT!</p>
<p>Kate, close your doors, sell the house, put the kids in public school and let them be the avg 6 yo.</p>
<p>Oh I am sorry I forgot she can’t or won’t do that because her status would drop.</p>
<p>Pima, tell us how you really feel! ;-)</p>
<p>I keep hoping this isn’t really true. Those poor children; they never asked for this circus. That is not to say that some of the kids would not have behavioral issues even if Kate had tried to be a normal mother, but at least they would have had a better chance.</p>
<p>The parents did a great job airing out their marital problems on national television without even a second regard for what was being done to their children. I do not think that Kate nad Jon meant to harm them, but their rage overwhelemed their good judgment. Hopefully Kate still has some money left to repair the damage psychologically and discipline her children.</p>
<p>When I first heard about this show, I thought it was a terrible idea and couldn’t imagine how having cameras in your home so much could possibly be healthy. That goes for all “reality” shows which incorporate cameras in the private home setting, but especially in the case of these very young children. When John succeeded in stopping the show for a short period, Kate went on the record to say the children were “very upset,” constantly asking when they could be back on the show, etc. I had a kind of sick feeling when I read that. What’s to become of the poor kids?</p>