Posted on 02/24/2008 10:31:03 AM PST by wagglebee
It will take a few more decades before homeschooling and private schooling will be the norm. First defund the gummint skewels. Sell off the real estate, returning the proceeds in the form of tax relief. Lay off the entire staff of each gummint skewel system. Establish PRIVATELY funded parent owned and controlled academies. If the NEA or AFT organizes a faculty of such an academy, abolish the academy and start over. Abolish the federal Department of Edumakashun and all federal funding and all federal regulation. If interscholastic tiddlywinks competition fails to survive, so be it. Likewise, the other tax-funded extravagances for which gummint skewels are known. Speed the decline of the gummint skewels by every weapon at our command (but most particularly by fiscal resistance). Regard private academies as ours until proven otherwise on an individual basis and defend them accordingly. Likewise homeschooling.
Easiest part of the job: Defeat the gummint skewels in every available genuinely academic competition until the public comes to regard the gummint skewels as the third-rate "academic" frauds that they are.
To all: Be aware that SoftballMominVirginia (Post#4) is a gummint skewel teacher and actually a defender of that system.
You are wrong, I do not defend the public school system as a whole. It cannot be defended. I do however believe that I have made the right decision within my family. Yes, it included public school and yes I teach children with special needs how to read.
I didn’t know Bibles were banned in public schools.........
I guess the one my daughter attends is breaking all kinds of rules, since I know for a fact there are Bibles on shelves, and even in the library there.
Headline: The Case for Teaching The Bible
excerpt
....public-school courses on the Bible nationwide. There aren't that many. But they're rising in popularity. Last year Georgia became the first state in memory to offer funds for high school electives on the Old and New Testaments using the Bible as the core text. Similar funding was discussed in several other legislatures, although the initiatives did not become law. Meanwhile, two privately produced curriculums crafted specifically to pass church-state muster are competing for use in individual schools nationwide. Combined, they are employed in 460 districts in at least 37 states.
Guess all these districts are breaking the law.....who knew?
Plus, guess I broke it today when I read the Bible during silent sustained reading, and another student broke it when she read her Bible and still another broke it as she reviewed her Torah for her Bat Mitzvah.
Such scoff-laws we are.
Horrible, I know.
Gotta scoot for a bit. Little one just openned her “other” bible, one of my cookbooks and I need to supervise so my kitchen isn’t destroyed while fixing dinner!
TTYL
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