I don’t mean to be confrontational, but WHY are you, a conservative, still sending your children to a public school?
The “public school” is the Bus Ministry of the State Church of Humanism.
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
It is hypocritical to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. Children do not trust hypocrites, so this will undermine your own authority, let alone influence, with your children.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
To understand the content and compass of modern education, see ...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54400125/Change-Agents-in-the-Schools-Barbara-Morris-1979
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government entitlement program.
My kids go to a Charter School. Yes I realize it’s still considered a “public school”, but quite frankly, we can’t afford a Private school and since there is no way for us afford to Homeschool our 3 children, we kind of have no choice right now.
Besides that whole stupid argument....Common Core will be required no matter what school your kids go to, EVEN HOMESCHOOL. The new STANDARDS will be required for ANY schooling, ANY WHERE your child gets it.
The ONLY way to stop this crap and fix it for every place a child can get educated, is in the Local Houses and States, passing bills to stop it.
My children have never been part of the system. We have found other routes to educate them.
That said, do you see that removing children from the system in decades to come will close the door to college for them? The college entrance exams are being rewritten to reflect CC curriculum.
How can we provide an alternate path for them? The gvt will try everything to shut that down.
It really is that simple, but it is also 'too inconvenient' for many parents.