The above is a personal insult.
However....I do not bother the administrator with personal insults. It is soooo much better to let them remain. Comments such as yours above say much more about you than they do me.
I said I would call you that, but we weren't going to have any personal insults.
Just like it's not a personal insult to the teachers on this board when you say that all public school teachers are Marxist enablers and/or Useful Idiots.
Wintertime,
I don’t know what you posted in #261; I only see one line from your post quoted in a schoolteacher’s post. But I want you to know I’ve continued to follow this conversation as much as possible.
I’m incredulous at how certain schoolteachers (though not all) are having our posts deleted for either (1) responding to their obnoxious statements or (2) stating a fact. You are absolutely correct: State-run school is part of the Marxist plan. Schools are called institutions. It is accurate to refer to school students as institutionalized. (Why would anyone take offense at that?) The origin of the term “useful idiot” has been attributed to Lenin to describe communist sympathizers.
I can understand how people might become offended. But the same teachers make disparaging remarks again and again about parents. Do we as parents hit the abuse button? No!
One schoolteacher makes bigoted and obnoxious statements while another cheers her on. Does anyone hit the abuse button on that post? No! But, when I respond in kind, one of those teachers complains and tries to have my response deleted. (Amazing!)
I think you’re wasting your precious time here. We could talk on and on forever, and they would never understand because they’re part of the system. And part of me understands their line of thinking because, at one point, I shared it. Years ago, when I first heard that parents homeschool, my immediate response was: “Who’s checking up on those parents?” Not long afterward, I learned more and decided to homeschool my own children. A local principal threatened me with truancy charges. (But it was an empty threat - long story.) That’s when I finally understood the importance of parental rights. Now I’m ashamed of my initial reaction to homeschooling.
Most people will never understand unless they themselves homeschool. I have met and known former schoolteachers who homeschool, and they understand the issue. They vehemently oppose any and all state oversight. But, I’ll bet if we’d asked them about homeschooling years beforehand, they would’ve been doubtful, too. People don’t understand the importance of individual rights until their own are threatened. And they don’t understand that most people can manage on their own unless they themselves have tried against all odds and succeeded.