Newflash. Public schools are NOT the military! In the military they can also control where you live, what you eat, what you say, and may order you to kill or die.
Military officers are highly trained, live by the same rules they enforce, are subject to rigorous discipline, and tend to have integrity. Public school officials tend to be the most mindless, bottom feeding trolls who fell out of the easiset department at the local community college. The "education" department.
Public school teachers and principles like to THINK they have life or death control of MY KIDS, but they DO NOT. Not morally. Not leagally. Not practically.
People need to play by the rules of the place they accepted going to school and work.
The all-powerful state taxes me at 50% of my income, effectively preventing me from sending my kids to a private school. When I "accepted" sending my kids to Public School, it was an extremely reluctant acceptance, based on limite finances.
It is not all about what an individual wants to do.
I went to catholic school and never had an issue with this. We could wear it all day everyday. This kid might want to consider asking his parents to send them to a Catholic school if his faith is that important.
Catholic schools are private and can make whatever rules they want to. Public schools are public and have to follow the laws of the nation, which include the first ammendment. Not allowing people to wear crucifix's or other symbols of their religion that in no way interfere with the educational environment is NOT OK. It's not neutral. It *IS* part of the Socialist / Atheist plan to make religion the equivelent of gang banging. If you don't know this I suspect you haven't dealt with the public shcools much.
Parents should be willing to shell out the bucks like my parents were.
Private schools cost a LOT more than 20 or 30 years ago. Lots of kids would like to go. For me it was either have the money to send my kids to decent colleges, or send them to private high schools. Both my kids went to excellent PRIVATE colleges, but had to endure public high school. Both fully understood that they were operating in a hostile environment, filled with socialist parasites, liberal toe-sucking freaks, and queer activists - and were trained to behave adccordingly, while still maintaining their autonomy, freedom of thought and personal integrity. It was *NOT* easy, but, for us it worked.
Interesting. And I agree somewhat. Public schools are funded by the taxpayers thus every taxpayer has a say in what’s going on. Now that doesn’t mean we’ll get heard or it will go our way (believe me I know here in NJ) but we do have a say regardless of whether we have kids in those schools.
Parents have a huge say in the public schools and many parents understand this and many don’t, so they don’t exercise their rights.
I sent and send my kids to catholic school k-8 and public high school. And I have a say in my kid’s education in the public high school as I’m a parent and a taxpayer. The latter being most important to the institution.
Public school districts have to follow the way of the people in that district not the law or whatever of the nation. All this kid’s parents had to do was mention culture and suing and he’d be allowed to wear his cross.
Catholic and private schools are expensive. I know. I send my kids to k-8 catholic school and it’s incredibly expensive. We can’t afford catholic high school and even if we could I question that amount of money for a high school education.
And many catholic schools, at least in this area, aren’t all that conservative and some are really liberal.
It’s all about the home imo and always was and always will be.
However, I pay tuition so I get a say in my kids education. I pay taxes, so I get a say in their public education too. Parents need to speak up and fight. IMO. and it really does work.
Kids value and lean to what’s said in the home far more than what’s said in school. Any school. Kids are impressionable but they’re not stupid really.
Both fully understood that they were operating in a hostile environment, filled with socialist parasites, liberal toe-sucking freaks, and queer activists - and were trained to behave adccordingly, while still maintaining their autonomy, freedom of thought and personal integrity. It was *NOT* easy, but, for us it worked.
That is because they had good parents who explained that to them. Most parents (exception on this site) are clueless as to what their kids should know before stepping foot in a public school. I understand about the costs and you are right the price has gone up unblievable. I guess because I never dealt with a public school, I can’t understand why this happens. Both catholic school and the military to me are both dictatorships. lol. Which probably explains my misunderstanding of this story.