At the same time, I suspect many parents truly are happy to be RID of their children come September. These are likely the same pro-abortion parents who send their kids off to camp all summer and vote for confiscatory rates of taxation so the government can do THEIR JOB, be it in the realm of education or morality. These parents are truly loathsome.
As for enhancing the parent-child bond via more time and to avoid the indoctrination that infects "educators" of all shapes and sizes and predelictions, have you considered homeschooling? It is not a panacea - I speak from experience - and many times situations truly preclude that pathway, but looking back on what Mrs DoodleBob and I achieved, it was worth not being invited to the club because our cars averaged 150,000 miles on their odometers (the other parents probably also though we were nuts).
“I suspect many parents truly are happy to be RID of their children come September. These are likely the same pro-abortion parents who send their kids off to camp all summer and vote for confiscatory rates of taxation so the government can do THEIR JOB, be it in the realm of education or morality. These parents are truly loathsome.”
Yep, that was my mother (parents had split up for good when i was young. About 5-6 years old. Mother got custody of us kids). I do not know if she was pro abortion, but she was a democrat as was everyone else in her family (i was the first republican in my family). She saw school as a free of charge babysitting service. Nothing more. She didnt give a damn about my schooling
And then when summer vacation came, against my will she enrolled me in one month of sleepaway camp and one month of day camp. I hated the both of them. Sleepaway camp was much worse to my psyche. With day camp, at least i got to go home in the afternoon and was home on saturdays and sundays. At sleepaway camp you were hundreds of miles away from home for a whole month. Shacked up in a cabin with dozens of strangers, some of which became your bullies, including some of the counselors.
She put me in camp simply because she wanted to be rid of me and out of her hair for the summer. To her, camp was just another babysitting service for her. She didnt care if i liked it or hated it, had a good time or not. And out of all the campers, i was the one who got the least amount of mail as my mother hated to write letters.
Because of summer camp i never enjoyed my summer vacation off from school. Only one week after school ended, i had to start camp. And after the last day of camp, i had only 2 weeks or less before the first day of school started. That was it.
I have met people who couldn’t be happier when school starts to the “rug rats” are finally out of their hair and they can get on with their selfish, shallow lives.
Well said. We have looked at homeschooling, but we are in a situation that makes that not on our RADAR now. To be sure, some of the brightest kids I ever knew were homeschooled, and for good reason. PS glad you broke those cars in!