Notice how the kid, his grandfather, and the American Legion didn’t just throw up their hands and head for the private and home schools?
THIS is how we keep and/or take back the public schools. The culture war must be fought and won in the public arena.
> THIS is how we keep and/or take back the public schools.
The very concept of “Public schools” is an AFFRONT to freedom.
If a group of parents wants to form a collective to educate their kids, they can have at it. But that’s not enough for the “public school” nazis. No, they must compel me and my family to at least PAY FOR it, if not participate in it.
And if we don’t want to participate, they want to add a whole bunch of regulations about what we can teach, what we can’t teach, when we can teach, how long we must teach, what ages to teach, yada, yada, yada.
We have to submit to more testing and curricula examination than the bloody government school collectives.
And we have to PAY FOR IT besides!
And the bloody collective charges our town $18,000 per student per year. A real bargain, right? Especially when you could get the Dublin Academy Boarding School for $14,000 per student per year, with mutliple student discounts, which are unavailable from the government school collective.
The church schools charge as little as $3000 per student per year, with multiple student discounts.
As homeschoolers, we spend about $200 per student per year on books and materials.
The biggest entitlement, the one most destructively woven into our societal fabric, is the government school collective. The sooner we do away with it, the better.
According to Albert Einstein, the definition of insanity is to repeat a process and expect different results. We’ve been repeating the process of “taking back” the government schools for years.
Once in a while, we win a battle. But try to get the schools to stop teaching that homosexuality is valid and natural. Won’t happen. Try getting them to teach that a family consists of a male Father, a female Mother, and their children. Try getting them to teach that abortion is murder.
Won’t happen.
Ever.
And the very concept of a government school collective, to which you must contribute even if you don’t participate, is TYRANNY!
You have a point.