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Why do parents day after day year after year voluntarily keep their children in schools that don't stop bullying? They knew the schools weren't going to stop it, they knew it was going on and still they send their kid there. Worthless parenting in my book.

Because sadly, many of us parents in this country have had our choices totally removed in the name of "diversity." My daughter attends a low-performing, low-income, unsafe school where bullying and picking and winning fights is something that earns you respect.

My daughter is a white child in a school that is mostly minority. It's not our neighborhood school. You see, we lost in the lottery. We got slapped into the "busing" queue because some idiots think forcing her and her white face to go to an inner-city school 45 minutes away is going to make black children learn better. In the meantime, no amount of protest, talking to school board members, nor talking to the State Board of Education has persuaded them to allow me to tranfer her to a school here in our neighborhood that is safer and provides better education. Magnet school? We tried applying for that too. But, the school board admits they disregarded the applications of certain students to keep schools balanced. In otherwords, because my daughter is white, we not only don't get to transfer her to another school, we don't even get to be considered for a magnet school because they feel they need her little white face in the school they've currently locked her into.

Everyone is busy celebrating the 50th of Brown v. Brown. Well, I'm afraid we aren't. We just got our school assignment for next year. Same school, same bullies, same violence...and my daughter is once again denied her right to an equally beneficial education.

If I could afford private school, I'd send her. But I'm a single mom and private school here is about $6,000.00 year. And we live on my salary alone, so I can't afford to quit work and homeschool her. So you see....it's not always worthless parenting.

Wow....I'm on my knees apologizing....I made a generalization but I should have said something about the exceptions who *really* have no choices.

You might want to investigate, however, into your homeschooling community to see if some of them teach others' children....I've heard of teaching co-ops and things like that. Sounds like just about anything would be better than what your daughter is going through.