BINGO!!!!!
Regardless of the setting (public, private, or home school) education of our children still remains OUR responsibility as parents.
Oh, of COURSE! That makes perfect sense! You don't like my "venom" so pick at my paragraphs! tell me- do you walk to work, or take a lunch?
My post hasn't NEARLY the venom I felt yesterday after school. I'll give you some now. Are there, as I said, "precious few" kids in that school who actually want to learn? Yes. Do I feel bad for them? Absolutely. But there isn't one damn thing I can do. In case you missed it somewhere along the way, the public school system is a monolith. An entrenched bureaucracy with tenured and dug in socialists with an agenda. And while those of you with your rosey view of life have been painting a nice little world for yourself, these demons have been usurping your rights as parents and taxpayers. They live off you like parasites and work against you to turn your kids into exactly what they are right now- uneducated little "individuals" with rights that superseed your own.
You wish to paint me as "uneducated", question whether I am actually a teacher or not? Go right on with it if it makes you feel better. Your opinion of me makes absolutely no difference. I refuse to live with the world YOU have allowed. I CHOOSE to remove myself FROM it. The situations of my life make it possible for me to NOT have to live with it. I am better off without people who make excuses, shoot the messenger, choose to do nothing.
I'll tell you what I CAN do- I vote. It is the best I can do and I will continue to do that, at least as my little part.