Those who do homeschool or privately school their children are essentially paying a ransom. These parents pay extra ( in addition to their government school tax) so that their children can leave the choking grasp of the government! Some have called homeschooling and private schooling expenses a “Freedom of Conscience and Religion Tax”.
Those parents who can not afford to ransom their children **MUST** attend their government indoctrination camp. If they don't they will subjected to: letters, then school workers, finally police and court action and possible imprisonment. If they resist to a sufficiently high level the police will kill them.
So....These kids came to school drugged. Some poor kid will be ( and has been) FORCED by the government to sit next to these kids. This is a violation of the child and the parents’ First Amendment right to free association.
While homeschoolers may encounter drug abusing kids in the neighborhood, government workers are not FORCING it on them.
Government schools are a First Amendment abomination! They violate freedom of speech, free practice of religion, press and FREE ASSOCIATION!
I think you miss my point...I’m supportive of those who wish to homeschool, but hold in contempt those who cop the holier than thou attitude about it...they aren’t necessarily better partents or better people or more caring or more loving. I personally know a homeschooled man who is just getting out of prison and he has about a third grade education.
Private schools have all the same social problems of public schools only they don’t have the direct force of law behind them. And as long as there are compulsory school laws on the books, it doesn’t matter where the kid goes to school, the government compells the parents to school the kids. Public, private, or home.
Something that I beleive about public schools is that they are reflective of the community, therefore GIGO. Solid communities with solid values tend to have solid public schools, and yes, I have seen them. Communities that have crappy schools also tend to have crappy values.