Public education is a collectivist, marxist idea.
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.”
~~ Thomas Jefferson
“The propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors,” is the definition of compulsory, collectivist education.
The Dept. of Education has over 18,000 employees and a 2006 budget of over $70 billion. What did all those people and money do? If it were gone tomorrow, what difference would it make to our daily lives?
The government school collective charges my town $18,000 per student per year. And it does not even include the bloody bus contract.
The local church school charges $3000 per student per year and gives a far superior education, stressing academic performance, God, family, and country.
We homeschool with the same emphases as the church school at a cost of about $200 per student per year.
Why must I be compelled by threat of force to participate in, or to contribute money to, a school collective that charges outrageously exorbitant fees to teach things like putting condoms on bananas, normalizes homosexuality, abortion, and promiscuous sex, exalts the genocidal savage Mohammed, teaches that there is no God but the State, and offers inferior academic performance?
Unfortunately, there's reality. The public schools are here. Homeschoolers aren't going to change that fact. The majority of the populace simply won't, or can't, homeschool their children.
You can raise knowledgeable, conservative, reverend children in your home, but they'll be outnumbered by droves of marxists at the ballot box unless you fight to maintain control of the schools.
The public schools are the battleground. Ours happen to be excellent, and we are working hard to keep them so.
Yours may be too far gone. What have you done, personally, to change that fact? And no, posting witty Jefferson quotes on FR doesn't count.