Reading, Writing, and ... Homosexuality?

You are right..not everyone can homeschool. That being said..I highly doubt that I would put a child in public school these days.

The answer, it would seem, is that we have allowed this all to happen in the first place. One woman takes the schools to court..no more prayer..a few homosexuals think recruitment via schools is a great way to go..hey..they have accomplished it.

Meantime..where have we all been? Sitting around hoping it would go away or hoping that the other guy would do all the work to turn things around.

I would be most curious if someone had the knowledge to tell me what it would cost to run schools today like they did thirty years ago. i.e. teaching the the three Rs and history and science. You know, none of the extras we have today.

When the goverment started saying teach this..and heres money for that..our school systems bit hard.

Good luck justagirl..

What you say sounds good in theory, but some of us have been banging our heads against the wall trying to fix the various problems in our local schools for years...as an individual it is quite exhausting to constantly be bucking the system, whether it be a teacher, principal, or the district. Been there, done that, on numerous issues. I finally decided it would be healthier if I could take that negative energy and channel it positively, toward private school and homeschool. I would love to see changes in the school system which would render it "usable" again, but it's going to take some sort of massive group effort -- you're up against the teacher's union, bureaucratic mediocrity, etc.

I do have one child still in public school and you should see the letter I got a couple weeks ago from the principal on why he's not enforcing the dress code...not only was it filled with lame "everybody's doing it" excuses (parents just can't buy clothes anymore that cover up their daughters' rear ends, you see), it had at least four vocabulary, punctuation, and grammar mistakes, including the memorable phrase that the school has a dress code "commiserate with the learning that needs to take place." I can only imagine he meant "commensurate."

...you should see the letter I got a couple weeks ago from the principal ... it had at least four vocabulary, punctuation, and grammar mistakes...

It would be fun to take a red pen to it, correct the mistakes, put a big "F" at the top and mail it back.

Of course, your child still has to go to the school, so I understand how impractical that would be. But still...

Believe me, I've thought about sending that letter back marked up, expressing my concern. Decided I'd better avoid it causing potential difficulties for my child (as I'm perpetually rocking the boat on various issues -- last year it was bathrooms without stall doors or locks and a teacher who was clueless in his subject...). My experience is that, with rare exception, school administrators are defensive excuse-makers rather than leaders...

My child is an honor student and doing fine despite the less-than-optimal setting, but I'm determined the younger children are going to have a more positive experience! Speaking of which, I'd better get back to some lessons now :).

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