Posted on 10/13/2023 7:54:17 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Some parents appear helpless to do anything about it. They know they ought to remove their kids from these schools but are helpless to do so. It is simple: both mother and father have to work. Neither of them can quit to home-teach their own children.
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Mass home schooling is too slow to come around. We've got the issue for '24. Will we use it? We can present the issue in an adult matter and the left presents their issues in the form of open borders, Chicago murders, and the latest-their hatred for Israel.
We'll miss this opportunity I'm afraid
simply move to a more conservative area where the public schools are better.
“It is simple: both mother and father have to work. Neither of them can quit to home-teach their own children. “
All part of the plan and why our economy is being destroyed. Another fork of the control agenda.
*simply move to a more conservative area where the public schools are better.*
Why back off from a fight we can win?
Think Prop 13-the Jarvis initiative-Calif. 1978.
It got non-voters to register for the first time. Big brushfire expanded to other states. Offer 100% school choice with ones tax dollars following the parents wishes.
Are the Calif. voters ripe for this? Perhaps not.
“They know they ought to remove their kids from these schools but are helpless to do so.”
Most people I work with are well-paid and they CHOOSE lifestyle over what their kids are subjected to - and then are VERY DEFENSIVE when that is pointed out to them.
It’s hopeless, at least for the Upper Middle Class (may be better with the poor, though).
Good article.
I offer a variety of freebies to anyone curious enough to click on a link. Including a 1992 thesis “The Social Maturity of Home School Children.”
School the children after you get home from work, or perhaps one of the parents can work a night or evening shift. Barring that, the kids can do their computer work while parents are at work. A lot of home schoolers use computer learning methods.
Correct. The value of our time, as peasants, has been diluted to the point that we can no longer thrive as families.
Except they are not.
That is a lie people try to tell themselves in order to feel better.
Go attend a few school board meetings. See what is actually being taught and go to the school library.
And do a little checking as to how many of the teachers are "dating" students.
so you are saying not a single public school in any state is ok? I know that is not the facts. Here is Texas many public schools are great.
Yyyep.
I’ve seen this happen in the Upper Middle Class. Here’s how it starts. Get married, then buy the best house you can afford with two incomes. Great. Then Kid #1 comes along. Mom takes time to have the baby, but grudgingly realizes they can’t pay for their lifestyle on one income. Mom goes back to work—finagles some extra hours or days from home, but kid still needs to go to another caregiver or day care until old enough for school. Now they get locked in. More kids come along....they fit right into the same pattern. Nothing changes until they are old enough to leave the house. But the damage is done.
This is what they mean by “mother and father have to work.”
But no they don’t. This is how we did it.
We got married, bought a little suburban home we could afford with one income, even though we had two incomes at the time. Paid off debts like crazy—car, student loans, mortgage. As Baby #1 is coming along, Mrs. Claud quits the rat race and stays home permanently. I keep working—and am not making much. Then Baby #2 and Baby #3, which technically puts us below the poverty level. Thanks to generous grandparents, hand-me-downs, and the occasional WIC, we scrape by. The little house gets crowded, so we move to a bigger one in a rural area. Thanks to careful choice of house/location and grandparents again, our mortgage barely goes up. Mrs. Claud starts homeschooling, and baby #4 and #5 come along. And here we are 10 years later, still ticking.
Not gonna lie...BOY has it been tough sometimes. And we’ve had massive, massive help from more kind people than I can ever count. But our kids have got the best education, the best teacher (mom), and we all grew together *as a family*. I am very very proud that we made the decisions that we did.
It can be done. It just takes two people to make the decision and stick with it.
bttt
I am not going to convince you that I am right but you can discover the truth for yourself with a little work.
Which is where the problem lies. Few people want to do the work. Not the parents with children in the system, they are much too busy and those without children in the system are told it is none of their business. Which is not true, you are paying for it.
Is there a single public school in the US that is ok? Not good but just ok. Where the teachers are not having sex with the students, where math is taught, where the kids can read and are taught to think logically? There might, by some strange chance, be one. But it is doubtful.
Your school is not different and the kids are not all right.
there are rural areas where not a single liberal lives within 50 miles here in Texas. There is nothing wrong with those schools.
The problem for many tends to come...grudgingly realizes they can’t pay for their lifestyle...finagles some extra hours or days...still not "enough" so "the only option" is credit cards.
Thats the trap and why so many wake up one day without a penny and only enough energy to climb into the coffin.
There are none so blind.
Dunno about TX but here in a fairly conservative rural hunting area of PA the local public school has TONS of rainbow filth up and down the halls.
It doesn’t seem to matter what your community values are, all you need is one liberal freak get a public school job there, and suddenly THEY are the standard your kids get exposed to.
I’d rather my kids be most exposed to the woman I love and chose to be my wife.
Right. You have to choose well in the beginning...delayed gratification. The problem starts with the expensive house purchase.
Not to say a family can’t have a “come to Jesus” moment mid-way, but a dramatic lifestyle downgrade needs an awful lot of willpower. Easier just to ride the train downhill till it crashes.
Thanks for the kind words!
One of the things people ignore is that the teachers are not locals. Neither is the administration.
And they are their own little community sticking together and protecting each other.
And of course what people want to ignore is that this is not something that is just happening. It has been going on for decades. "Why Johnny Can't Read" was printed in 1955. "New Math" showed up in the 70's. And as for teachers having sex with students.... during the sixties there were teachers who openly bragged about a ride in their car being an "automatic grade improver".
Anyone who tried to point this out was being a prude and overreacting.
*School the children after you get home from work, or perhaps one of the parents can work a night or evening shift. Barring that, the kids can do their computer work while parents are at work. A lot of home schoolers use computer learning methods.*
I agree with you 100%. -However-
The parents are putting out extra effort to deal with the school shortcomings and the education establishment sees them as chumps. 100% school choice would turn the whole place on it’s head-way overdue.
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