I've been here nine years; does that mean I get to be the decider? ;-)
Look, Tired of Taxes, your whining about how teachers don't treat black children correctly and that's one reason you won't put yours in public schools sounds as if you're playing the victim, yet you claim to be conservative and that you aren't raising your children to play the victim card. I suggest that you back away from the computer, take a few deep breaths, and try to look at the thread logically instead of emotionally.
No one here is against having choice - but some of us realize that the only real choice for some students (black, white, purple, green, pink, brown..) right now is the public school system, even though in many places it really needs improvement.
Tired of Taxes, maybe you should quit whining and get with the program. Being conservative is about being self-reliant and controlling your future and your destiny. It obviously upsets you to live in a state with the highest taxes in the nation, and in some sense you seem to be blaming the NEA and all of us who are public school teachers for your problem. Has someone chained you to New Jersey and forbidden you to move???
FGS, stop whining, move to a state with lower taxes, and quit blaming other people for your problems!
Amelia,
I don’t care how many years you have been here. You could be a sleeper troll, too. If someone posted pro-gun control on a pro-gun rights thread, FReepers would call that poster a troll. If someone posted anti-war messages on a support-the-troops thread, FReepers would call that person a troll. You post pro-public school, anti-school choice messages on this forum, and that’s all you post. You post nothing conservative that I can find.
Amelia, you’re trolling. You’ve been trolling here a long time.
Don’t try twisting the story to back up your teacher-friends here. I’m not whining about anything. The race card wasn’t played by me. I only responded to it. When Verga played the race card, I responded that we don’t put our children into school because we don’t want them taught that victim mentality. I said it was condescending. I said my children learn self-reliance.
Then, when they turned around and complained about entitlements to “the black community,” I pointed out their hypocrisy: They’re employed by the system, and they make money off that mentality.
You, Verga, and Twink keep running to the moderators to complain about the homeschoolers here. As the statement of purpose of this forum indicates, we homeschoolers are in line with the purpose of this forum. You are not.
Btw, we will be moving from New Jersey. That’s not the point. The point is: this state and others around it serve as the perfect example of what happens when the NEA dream is realized to its fullest extent: High spending, high taxes.
For the record, Amelia, I don’t care what you or any of the teachers here think. I’ve only been responding so that the Moderators will know the real story. I’m not going to let you and your buddies twist it. ;-)