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Not all schools yet RA, you hear about many of the larger urban centers and all, but if you get out into the bible belt areas and rural schools you see a completely different system that hardly ever makes the news.

I live in S. central Indiana, and believe it or not our district still has weekday, where they take the kids (who want to go of course) off school property every week to a church nearby and learn about non-denominational Christian beliefs. My kids had a “silent time” before snacks and at lunch when they were in elementary school, and in middle school things changed but not in an awful way like many districts you hear about.

Around here the parents just will not tolerate the BS, and believe me when it comes out that a particular teacher is pushing some idea like AGW as fact the kids tell their parents, we throw a fit in the local papers, and believe it or not, things do change then. The local teachers are getting older now, but they know that this area WILL NOT tolerate the liberal mindset gripping the rest of the nation.

I’m not saying our schools are perfect, my son has an openly gay teacher who is flaming but nothing can be done about that unless he gives another reason to be let go, he even admits it to his HS class if asked. Other than that I think my kids are getting a halfway decent education we are paying for here, if I thought different then I would have pulled them out.

My daughter this year (her sophomore in a private college, University of Indianapolis, run by the Methodist church) got into their highly prized nursing program, only one of 40 out of 1600 applicants largely because of her test scores from that school district. (and her own hard work of course, 4.437 gpa, way better than her old man ever did)

The school’s defining philosophy was traditional and conservative, starting with a sit-down-in-your-seat brand of discipline, leavened with a rafter-shaking reverence for country and flag. Every day the students gathered in the gym for the “Morning Program,” open to parents, which began with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a patriotic song, and then discussion of a “word of the week.”

This is one of my "this is what liberalism is to me" items. Sadly it is full of this woman's admissions of her own failures -- as a person and failures of perception -- written by her own hand; yet she cannot see...

Thankfully here in small town schools in Alabama we have good, faithful teachers. In the big cities like Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville and Mobile, the DimoCommies and teachers unions screw the system into the ground and the kids are becoming good little dummies and future homos. But our County seems to be decent from what I’ve heard. The local city school system here in my town is okay also. I know a guy who just got elected to the board and he is good people. So I suspect it is a good board.