Posted on 12/09/2004 6:49:31 PM PST by mysonsfuture
Another good reason to pull your kids out. A girl is sexually assaulted in school, and she gets punished. The local district attorney writes to the school and asks them to rectify the situation in a sharply worded letter. They don't. The girl attaches a letter, explaining her suspension on her college application.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/dec04/282822.asp
It really is time to pull them out folks.
The typical Hillary Clinton argument. Parents are too stupid to make educational choices for their children according to Hillary.
Wicca is a religion recognized by the federal government, therefore, Wiccan schools could use vouchers. There are Islamic schools that are allowed to operate in my state (one is a couple of towns away from me). I imagine vouchers could be used for those students also as long as the schools don't break any laws.
Think of all the churches with empty classrooms during the week.
Wow...the kids and I just did something last month on how we got the Scripture...and studied Huss and Wycliffe and Henry VIII. We also did a huge study on William Wallace, as DH and I believe that the ideas for independence in Scotland coupled with the idea of religious freedom really influenced the founding of the United States.
Maybe we should arrange marriages later in life...LOL
Bump for an algebra tutor!
I understand how you feel. That's why I try to post something positive about my daughter's school experience whenever I can.
I bet that part of the reason why you and I are pleased with our children's schools is because we live in VA. Most of my daughter's teachers have been conservative and there are are a lot of male, ex-military teachers in my area.
No, the voucher program, while I like the concept of school choice... is at the end of the day NOT a solution. ALl that will happen is that private schools that take the vouchers will end up having the government use that funding source as a backdoor to destroy and corrupt their educational freedom as well.
You want your kid educated properly, YOU, not the government must take responsibility for it. Find a good private school and send your kid to it, or home school. Yes it will cost you money, but so be it. No better investment out there.
Public schools are the equivalent of the Public Defender... everyone that is breathing knows that a public defender is nowhere near as capable as a private lawyer... not even liberals will try to argue that they are. However for some reason when it comes to public education they want folks to believe the public schools are great, when in fact they are in general the worst option out there.
I think we will and should always have public schools, however they should only be used as the last resort for your kids education (In most places.. yes wealthy neighborhoods with homogeneous populations can and often do have exemplary public schools, but they are the exeception) NOT the first.
Whenever somebody complains about how hard their job is, I just say, "Beats a two-week jury trial."
What happens when the first Wiccan school opens via voucher system or the first string of Fundie Islamic schools?
Exactly. He who pays the piper calls the tune. If I plant my feet under the State's table, I have no right to complain about the menu. What it feeds me I must swallow.
Control always follows "free" government money. An Alaskan subsidy for home schooling got the camel's nose under the tent by offering a "free" computer. Three years later, the camel was in the tent, controlling the curriculum.
No, they are not our schools, because we do not pay for them. The governments pay for them using money confiscated by force and threat of force from us. Insert the gun between giver and reciever, and fraternal bonds instantly disolve.
How we educate our kids is everyones concern. Unless everyone is well (ok somewhat)educated this society is lost...
What you mean "we" paleface? What you mean "our"? For the record, the first person plural is a 20th century euphemism for raw statism.
Move to Alabama.I pay $325 per month for my daughter to go to private school.Great education and a world of difference from the public school she attended.We do without a few things in order to pay it,but I see it as an investment.
Maybe it toughened me up, maybe it damaged me internally-I don't know. What I do know is my son won't have to face that issue.
what i don't understand is how the mother could allow her daughter to continuing going to the school after the incident... i hear it all the time... a child is bullied year after year... the schools do nothing about it... the victim's parents keep sending him back... and in one case, the victim kills himself in front of his classmates and teacher... and now his grieving mother says, "i wish i would have taken him out of there."
it's so sad that she did not see that as an option before this tragedy played out... this was her baby, and she couldn't see that she had choices... it's amazing how we automatically think, "my child is five, he must go to school." and for most people, that means public school... government school.
There was a case in my state in an inner-city school (the worst place in the country to raise a kid according to the latest survey) where a bunch of girls were actually taken into the boys' locker room because they were causing trouble in a gym class and assaulted by the boys.
The principal did not report it to the police. One girl refused to go back to school and was brought up on truancy charges. She was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to a Catholic elementary school. The mother is suing the school. I don't know what is happening to the principal.
we've lived in the city, the suburbs, and now in the country... we despise public education in general... one of the things i don't like about public education is that it's conveyor belt education... even the good public schools offer a "one size fits all" education... for me, that's just not enough...
now i know there are a lot of parents who supplement their children's public education with extra-curricular activities and projects (athletics, the arts, family field trips, lots of reading, Bible studies, etc.) and i admire those who do this... too bad more parents do not... on top of all that, as a Christian, i could not send my children to public school... (where there is no such thing as being "neutral" on matters of religion.)
i just introduced my boys to Henry VIII last week! we're studying Shakespeare in literature, so i was setting up the scene of Shakespeare's England... so we covered Henry VIII, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth... plus we've been covering a lot of the struggles between the Roman Catholics and the "Protestors" in history... do you use the "classical education" method?
p.s.--lately, it seems that everytime we read a story, the "Black Plague" is mentioned, and my kids eyes just light up because they recognize it...
Vouchers require socialist tax collection. In a non-compulsory system, the few parents that can't afford phonics classes would get covered by charity.
And don't forget that vouchers will get paid to anti-Christian Islamic madrassas...
Better: complete separation of school and State.
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