Exodus: Is It Time To Leave Public Schools Behind?

Morality in Media ^ | February 2005 | Sharon Secor

[Servant of the 9]

As long as public schools are taught by people with teaching degrees instead of real degrees and directed by thug unions instead of brains there is no hope for public education.

So9

[Minuteman23]

BTTT.

[Rocketman]

My Children tell other Children about God the bible Ruch Limbaugh, conservatism -- if they were to cut and run the students in their classes would have no witness other than the words of their liberal teachers.

My children far from perfect far from spiritual giants let their little lights shine in the darkness. Today Jon age 13 took to school an article to school from FR on the historic racism of the demoncrats and demoncratic party he had quite a stir with the article and your comments.

Someone has to do the work and if we talk and are close to our children with what they hear they learn discernment, they learn how to articulate what they beleive, and can tell others .

[thoughtomator]

No. It's past time.

[Next_Time_NJ]

So the exodus will go where? Private Schools? If that happened, they wouldnt be to private now would they..

As for sexuality and crime in schools, its natural progression of the mind. As people get more used to sex and crime, it becomes common place. Problem is, there is zero way to reverse it. You can help your family, but the country as a whole will just become more and more used to sex and crime.

[annyokie]

I really wish this canard about public schools would stop. My children have gone to both public and private schools over the course of their scholastic careers. I will take the public schools over the private schools everytime.

[annyokie]

TG you don't homeschool judging by your sentence structure and spelling.

[Just Lori]

There was a time when children actually learned useful things in public schools. They actually had to pass tests before they went on to the next grade. Now we have kids graduating from high school with a 3rd grade reading level. Where the hell did these "teacher's unions" come from???? No wonder home-schooling is becoming so popular!

[Indie]

I left the public schools behind when I grad HS in 1975. Back then, the good teachers still remained. But race riots and police swat teams on a suburban campus in NE Dallas near White Rock lake during the school day in an upper middle class neighborhood even then, showed the flaws of forced bussing and social engineering.

Both of my boys attend private Christian schools. Thank God.

[NEBUCHADNEZZAR1961]

So the exodus will go where? Private Schools? If that happened, they wouldnt be to private now would they..

The private schools aren't that far behind the public ones my friend.

[hinckley buzzard]

We need to build a wall of separation between school and state.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

All your private skools are belong to us! ! !

[1FASTGLOCK45]

OH Yea, and Your Publik Skools too!

[annyokie]

Your post is nonsense. My children attend fine public schools. They are tested weekly and are reprimended if they are behind. They are expected to be tidy and ready to learn.

They may pray for a classmate or whomever their teacher asks them to pray for. They had a Nativity play at Christmas and they are anticipating Easter.

My youngest child's teacher was voted Oklahoma state teacher of the year.

This chicken little nonsense is wearing thin with me.

[jonsie]

As a high school teacher in a public high school with over 800 computers, I am no longer a teacher but a computer, cell phone, headphone, dress code cop. So little time teaching, so much time being a pseudo-cop, as per school rules. (My apoligies to our wonderful police officers in using the term "cop").

[WindOracle]

That would be great if your kids education were not being sacrificed so they could bear witness to the other kids. I am not willing to do that with my kids future.

About a month ago I posted the following to a thread, but the thread had few people read it, so ya probably haven't. So forgive my posting this here, but it is easier than retdescribing it all, and it is even MORE on topic here than it was there.
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Last year, I took my son to New Orleans. When we returned, during a conversation with his 6th grade teacher, I told her I had taken him on the Mississippi Queen riverboat, at which time she asked me "what river is that on?". I was stunned, and had to bite my tongue from yanking her chain by saying it was the Nile. During the same conversation, she asked me if my son noticed the difference there. I asked what she meant, and she said "You know, the blacks and whites bathrooms and water-fountains". This woman, who graduated from college about 3 yrs earlier thought they still had segregation in the south.

At this point, my confidence in our education system was getting pretty shaky, not that it was ever very high.

This year they do the federal reading testing, and all parents get letters saying that our school came out a few points low, I cannot remember the cutoff score. Anyway, the upshot was that since the school a few miles up the road had a higher score, well above the requirements, the parents whose kids scored below a certain level could enroll their kids at the better school next year. I guess the theory is that "We are doing you a favor by letting you move your kid, who has reading problems, up to a school which is doing a better job". The reality is much different. By moving a few kids from this school, to the "better" one, the scores for this school raise next year, the scores for the "better" school drops a couple points, but is still above the cutoff point. Next Year they can say "Look at the scores, we have improved.. now give us more money", when in fact they have improved nothing. All they HAVE done is played a numbers game, passed the problem kids off onto someone else, and added a half hour to the bus ride for the kids.

Recently I went and hung out in my son's class for a couple hours, just to observe how things happen there. the kids are sharing tables, about 5 kids to each table. There seemed to be no structure at all, and kids were basically wandering around from table to table. The teacher spent his whole time behind his desk with his nose in a book and feet on his desk.

This same teacher later told me "It is not my job to teach them. I give them their assignments, and they are supposed to work it out and I help them when they really get hung up".

At this point, I am on the verge of pulling my kid outta this school.

The following week, 2 weeks ago, my son came home upset because a teacher had told him he could not wear his necklace to school. It is not as if such are forbidden, other kids wear jewelry and such in his class, but his is a cross about one inch high with a little tag that says "forgiven".

I am aware I do not have to let them push him around on that last issue, but at this point, I figured this school was not worth it anyway, and my son is now enrolled in a private school.

BTW, last week, my son and I were in the store. A lady I did not know asked me "Is your son's name William?". I said yeah, and she says "I thought I recognized him... I sometimes teach at this school and at the one in Noel". When I mentioned that he did not go to school here, and she asked about it, and I told her where he goes to school now, she tells me HER kids go to a private, Christian based school too. What does it tell us when the public school teachers send THEIR kids to private schools?

[annyokie]

What is your complaint exactly? You are in charge of teens who must use computers?

Get tough with your classes. I did it, albeit in grad school. No cell phones, no headphones and who cared what they wore.

[bray]

Our town HS has a Homosexual Principal, hmmmmm??? Glad my son is in a Christian School.

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