[TXBSAFH]

My wife is a high school science teacher in an at risk school. Most of her students come from broken homes and parents that are trash. I could fill a two page post with some of the crap she has seen, just a taste, one parent cmae into a parent teacher conference and told my wife he did not know why he was there. He said and i quote, "It is not my job to raise the brat, that is why I send him to school." The parents have a ultimate responsiblity to raise their child and to see that he is educated.

[Aquinasfan]

"It is not my job to raise the brat, that is why I send him to school." The parents have a ultimate responsiblity to raise their child and to see that he is educated.

You are correct. But what message does society send to parents when people with guns take children away from them at age five to be schooled?

On the other hand, a voucher system respects parents' fundamental right to be the primary educators of their children. Our system of compulsory schooling is appropriate for a totalitarian regime, not a free society.

[Eska]

My wife and I are also teachers. I just wish more conservatives could see through the political games and realize the truth.

I've pulled pistols out of backpacks, been threatened with lawsuits by parents for breaking up fist fights in school, and things I never imagined could ever occur. NCLB will never fix the problems and is a failed program; just politics. Accountability is what is needed in alot of areas of our society.