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Shall we assume you don’t have any kids in public school? Or that you’ve never tried to take on the ‘educational establishment?’ Any notion that that is a piece of cake is seriously flawed. Even when one has a few successes in those battles, ‘they’ ultimately win the war.

In the meanwhile, why sacrifice your child’s getting a good education accompanied by your values vs. a mediocre education and the tearing down of your own family values? It is hardly cowering to educate your kids at home. The easy thing is to send your kids to public school and leave the job to others.

I attended public school in upstate NY not 50 miles from Troy, NY, the locale of this incident.

I have 3 kids in public school, ages 9 throught 14. They are each doing exceptionally well.

In the 8 years our kids have attended public schools, I have called no fewer than 6 parent-teacher or parent-teacher-principal conferences. Topics ranged from how the 2nd amendment was being taught to why my son would not be completing his "black history month" assignement on Colon Powell. (the teacher was made to re-teach the 2nd amendment lesson using facts alone, and my son made a report on Lincoln and the Civil War instead of Powell.)

I exchanged a dozen emails with the superintendent regarding 0's Sept address to students. The district went from fully participating in the speech and lesson plan, to required viewing of the speech with no lesson plan, to optional particpation in viewing the speech.

Sending your kids to public school isn't a fire-and-forget proposition. You don't relinquish your parental rights or responsibilities when you choose public school. In fact, you take on more responsibility, because now you have to keep tabs on what's being taught, what materials are being used, etc...

So why not just home school? Because if you don't stand up to liberals in the public schools, they will be free to churn out mindless, indoctrinated socialists. They would like nothing more than for all conservative parents to pull their kids out of the public schools. Then they'll carry out their indoctrination unopposed.

I firmly believe that homeschooling can produce well-educated conservatives. The problem is that when these well-educated conservatives reach voting age, they'll find themselves outnumbered 3 to 1 at the ballot box by indoctrinated socialists. Conservative viewpoints must be heard in public schools. Vouchers can help, and in some areas, homeschooling is the only true option. But in schools like this Troy district, it's time to fight.

So, no, sending my kids to public school isn't the easy decision. As much as I'd like to raise them to adulthood in the bubble of my own home, I know that in the long run it will do them more harm than good. I'm raising conservative warriors.