‘A couple of years ago, after sending my five-year-old daughter off to school, she came home reciting the same cheerful environmental mantra I was taught in elementary school.’
Didn’t bother reading beyond this. Any person DEMENTED enough to sent their kids to public schools is not worth my time, as they obviously don’t care about what their kids become.
But what the heck, it is ‘free’, after all.
There is some one DEMENTED here but it ain’t some parents not doing what you want.
how many kids have you home-schooled?
Are you aware that most of the stuff you read here on Free Republic, from the articles themselves to the comments about the articles, is written by public school graduates?
Apparently not.
Hopefully you didn’t waste your time by reading even this far.
Most people do not have the wherewithal to provide alternative "education" due to the crushing tax burden imposed by the state.
I'm sure TSR appreciates your concern as much as I.
“Any person DEMENTED enough to sent their kids to public schools is not worth my time,-—”
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If home schooling produces kids as judgmental as you are that tells me all that I want to know about it.
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you should be a motivational speaker!
I’m was not home schooled. Perhaps you can have me banned from this holy site you spout from?
While your enthusiasm is appreciated; paying for both the exorbitant property taxes with the mortgage payment *and* private school tuition for multiple kids is not always a possibility for everyone.
The *vast* majority of kids go to public schools; some in highly rated suburban districts. The leftist bent is definitely there; but even my brother who was able to send his 3 kids to private parochial school K to 12 ran into leftists who argued with his kids in class about Trump.
Anyway - my situation was this; so its clear that not everything is always possible....
At the birth of child #3 my wife stopped working. She was making 45% of the household income at the time. Baby #3’s due date was the first day of Kindergarten for my oldest. I was paying pre-school tuition for Child #2 for two more years at that same date in time. Cutting our family’s pay in half *and* adding private school tuition was not possible.
Selling the house and downsizing was also not possible; as a) we had just added another member of the family and b) we under-purchased the house 3 years earlier to begin with knowing my wife might stop working soon; and c) this was going into the teeth of the housing crash; and while still carrying probably 78% loan-to-value (from the previous value 3 years prior) we would have likely been well into 5 figures in the hole to try to sell - and then what? The transaction cost of selling one home and buying another wasn’t doable either.
So; yes. Could I afford it now? Probably; I have gotten two promotions and annual raises since then.
I don’t consider myself DEMENTED; but BLESSED to have been able to provide for my 3 kids all these years while having my wife *still* at home with the kids to this day, well more than a decade later. She has essentially been retired since she was in her 30’s. I care greatly about what my kids become; and having their mother there every day to help them realize their potential is something I wouldn’t change for anything.
Sending them to one of the 3 private schools they could have gotten to locally would not have been worth them coming home to an empty house every day their entire childhood.
>>Any person DEMENTED enough to sent their kids to public schools is not worth my time, as they obviously don’t care about what their kids become.<<
That is a deeply unfair statement. Few people, including FReepers, have the wherewithal to home school or send to private schools.
The best bulwark people have against the indoctrination centers known as publik skool is to instill good values into their children and be actively engaged in their lives while LIVING those values.
Holier than thou home schooling attitudes sound like liberal elitist crap.