I for one have a hard time adopting the “I’m going to take my ball and go home” mentality. I will fight tooth and nail to make sure that public schools do not trample on my rights . . . rather than simply give into the leftist education bureaucrats!
Would you fight tooth and nail for collective agriculture? The model is the mistake.
We've already done that in my house...by making sure the public schools never got their mitts on my kids in the first place.
I admire your attitude but think you are pissing against the wind.
That sounds like a lovely firm moral stand, but think what it means - leave my kids in a cesspool while I get a bucket and try to remove the crap, even as dump trucks are dropping off more, versus throwing a rope, hauling my kids out, and feeling very sorry for the ones who are still stuck in crap.
I see how parents can have that attitude but me and my house, we’ll homeschool.
I agree. Fix the schools; don't surrender them!
I received similar criticism when we began homeschooling our first child in 1988 for not “fight(ing) tooth and nail” against the public school leviathon. I always viewed the situation as one where my time with my kids was too short to spend it butting heads with the bureaucrats as they indoctrinated other’s children in the government schools. As we look back my wife and I have NO regrets whatsoever. My children are doing very well as adults, my wife and I have the sweetest memories and, best of all, my children intend to give our grandchildren what they call “the best education possible”: a home school education.
As for your efforts, I wish you the best, but carefully consider if that is what your children will remember the most about their time at home when they reflect on their childhood.
I felt like that at one time - until I realized that I was using my children in the fight... and it was not fair to them to have them subject to indoctrination every day.
It is my husband’s and my responsibility as parents to ensure our children are safe from indoctrination. To do our best to raise them to be Christian young men. Of course THEY are the ones who will make that decision - but as Christian’s ourselves it is up to us to make sure they hear the Truth .. no matter the subject.
Not you, but your children are paying the price. You have no weapons with which to curb their excesses; the courts have taken them all away.
I fought tooth and nail for years. Finally, when my son was a freshmen in h.s., I gave up the good fight. In h.s. things are done more in secret and behind the parents back. The only way to find things out is to grill your child when they come home from school. My son was too confused and apprehensive to disclose things in detail. I fought many battles for my son in school over the years, I only gave up due to the fact that I became overwhelmed by the newer problems with the school. Like trying to recruit my son into homosexual behavior, behind my back. Things like that. Undermining my right to teach him MY values. Good luck to you. One month into his freshman year I pulled him out of school. Plugged him into an online christian private school, and things have improved 150%.
But then again, you have to be able to assess a situation such as this and know when you can no longer make any headway and when you can no longer let your children be subjected to the field trips to the abortion mills, the homosexual propaganda, and on and on. I don’t think what is happening is exactly taking my ball and bat and going home; it the preservation of my children.
For me, it's not about "my rights" it's about my children's souls. Even if the public schools were soaring monuments of academic excellence, entrepreneurial expertise, self reliance, free thought, inspiring creativity and civic virtue they would not be blessing enough for my children who will not walk in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand in he way of sinners nor sit in the seats of the scornful. The Law of God has no place there, by day or by night and even if it did there would be many administrators, teachers and students who would disregard it. The call, for Christians, is to love Christ, not just tolerate Him.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
- Fellow Kentuckian
For me, it's not about "my rights" it's about my children's souls. Even if the public schools were soaring monuments of academic excellence, entrepreneurial expertise, self reliance, free thought, inspiring creativity and civic virtue they would not be blessing enough for my children who will not walk in the counsel of the ungodly nor stand in he way of sinners nor sit in the seats of the scornful. The Law of God has no place there, by day or by night and even if it did there would be many administrators, teachers and students who would disregard it. The call, for Christians, is to love Christ, not just tolerate Him.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
- Fellow Kentuckian