[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."

[whd23]

...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...