[justagirl]

not everyone can or should home school their children. Besides, they are PUBLIC schools, our tax dollars pay for them. We should be trying to fix the problem instead of yanking our kids out and turning our backs on it.

[stillafreemind]

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..

[GOPrincess]

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."

[Bob Mc]

Sorry, I disagree. I've already given up on Public schools. My children are much to precious to leave in such a dangerous, corrupt, and abusive system, while politicians and bureaucrats tinker many years with "fixing it". Good luck with yours.