The problem is not to shift children from public to private or home school them. The problem is money and a voice in spending that money.
They are taxed for a product that is against everything they believe and which has been show to be sub par. Back in the old days, school values reflected the community. Today, they reflect the NEA and national groups. Add all the other national and State burdens, and you get a lot of money spent for very little and delivers an inferior product. Any business that did that would no longer exist.
I consider it humorous that those who revel in the exclusion of religion from schools forget that those who were in that system are the ones who made this country what it is today. The foundation of this country was based on the faith of the founders and it was perpetuated in that faith. Bible reading in school continued the foundation of that moral compass.
Today, those opposed to religion in schools revel in the disappearance of any moral base and have no idea of what they are creating. They think they do. But look at any University and you see the world they want.
> The problem is not to shift children from public to private or home school them. The problem is money and a voice in spending that money.
There have been several attempts for IDers to get onto the school board around here. They have failed spectacularly. I was not the least bit surprised that everyone who was up for election on the Dover schoolboard and who advocated ID was defeated. This subject is a loser in an election. The average person does not want a religious nutjob in charge of their kids. Unfortunately, the anti-religious nutjobs do a much better job of concealing their true motives, so they get elected.
What is needed is a board that is concerned about teaching basics instead of teaching either religion or anti-religion. I don't see it happening, though.
All public schools should be totally locally controlled AND locally funded. With voters in said location deciding how. A couple of key words: TRIM, TRIM, TRIM.
And if people whine that some areas have more money that others?
My answer: Too bad. Everything isn't always equal and uni-. But with the tax money saved more people can send their children to private school or one parent can stay home and homeschool.
>>>Back in the old days, school values reflected the community. Today, they reflect the NEA and national groups.<<<
True. Communists are in control of our children's education.
>>>Today, those opposed to religion in schools revel in the disappearance of any moral base and have no idea of what they are creating. They think they do. But look at any University and you see the world they want.<<<
My wife is a 30-year public school teacher, and she recommends home-schooling. But what we really need is a Home-School Bill of Rights that gives families tax credits for educating their children at home (for keeping them out of the corrupt, left-wing public schools).