If this parent gave a rat’s rear about his child’s education they’d have her in a private school, a parochial school, or home school.
Seems some folk just rather have a couple nice cars, a nice home, nice vacations, 1,000 cable channels, the latest iPhone, etc.
You’re on Caesar’s turf.
“If this parent gave a rat’s rear about his child’s education they’d have her in a private school, a parochial school, or home school.”
You are sick.
But in America the people are Caesar and we do not have to put up with this.
If it’s anything like the public schools in the Houston suburbs, it’s a strong academic school district where there was no compelling reason to turn to private schools. The dad is trying to effect change from within and “right the ship” of this school to get it back on track. Lots of curriculum gets tinkered with, unbeknownst to parents, and continues as long as nobody complains. Shining the light of publicity, through media exposure or a lawsuit, is very successful in educating an unsuspecting taxpaying public. School boards depend on votes of district residents. Superintendents are hired by the board, Principals are hired by the superintendent, Teachers hired by Principals, etc. Change the board, change the district.
Careful. You have no idea what their personal situation was - whether either of the other options that you mentioned could work for their family. We homeschooled our son but it was not easy and there are families who would not be able to do it.
If it’s a case where they could have done other options there’s still the possibility that they wanted to stay in the system to help protect both the families who don’t even know what their kids are getting at school and the society that has to deal with the fallout. Sometimes it’s not an easy decision as to whether to abandon the fight for society in favor of protecting family. Not an easy decision at all.
Granted, that homeschooling may be a way to lessen the effects of the nanny state on your own particular child.
This is the time and place to fight the oppression and the hypocrisy. Kill the cancer when it's small, so it doesn't get big and kill you.
“If this parent gave a rat’s rear about his child’s education they’d have her in a private school, a parochial school, or home school.”
Why not fight for your child and the children of others?
Why abandon the field of battle and let the fools take over using taxpayer (your) money?
Ah, the old FReeper blame the victim attack.
Sorry, but these parents are paying for that school with their tax dollars, and their child has every right to get a decent education and not be indoctrinated in Islam in the course of it.
I wouldn’t send a child to public school now, although I did when my kids were young because the Catholic schools were, if anything, even worse and more ideologically leftwing and also didn’t even provide a good secular education. Homeschooling hadn’t even been “invented” yet, and while it’s available now, not everybody can do it, either because of time constraints or simply because they aren’t good at doing that kind of thing.
But the question remains: why should the state be able to take advantage of the public schools to indoctrinate the kids in Islam? This man was brave for filing suit and I hope they prevail, because this isn’t the only place in the US where this very same thing is happening.
You have no idea what that families financial situation is. Just a smear on a Marine vet taking the fight against public schools. Not only that he probably killed some Jihads. What have you done? You on right forum?
As a Christian, fellow believers would rightly disapprove if I were to send my children to a Hindu school where they are immersed in a Hindu worldview, or a Muslim school to be immersed in Islam, or a Buddhist school to be trained in buddism, etc. Yet sending them to a secular humanism school is not only accepted, but to remove them is giving up.
At the founding of our nation, there were no “public schools” as we know them today, or even as we knew them during any generation that is still alive today. We would have to go back to how school was done prior to the acceptance of the Prussian Model that took place in the mid to late 1800s. Realistically, that won’t happen.
As a homeschool mom I see the reactions of those who don’t homeschool. To be frank, most people aren’t willing to give what it takes to avoid having their children steeped in godlessness for 35+ hours a week. It requires a huge effort-very few homeschooling moms do not work outside the home, they work nights and weekends (myself included), so the argument about not being able to afford living on one income isn’t an insurmountable problem for most. Curriculum doesn’t have to be too costly, either. A few years ago I discovered the original McGuffey curriculum for all subjects, K-12 on CD-ROM for around $200. All your kids educated for $200 total is pretty affordable.
Yes, ideally public schools would teach kids true history, reason, honor and all the ideals upon which our country was founded. But schools belong to the government that won’t even maintain its border, enables generations of dependency, protects criminals and uses its agencies to attack innocent civilians. I’m not sacrificing my children to the government only to be frustrated when it does the wrong thing. Training the hearts and minds of children is the God given responsibility of parents (Deuteronomy 6).