“Nope! I disagree. These parents shouldn’t be protesting. Protesting implies that reform is possible.”
My POV is based on Texas schools which do not have teachers’ unions dictating to administrations. In fact, most teachers at my former district had joined professional organizations for the liability insurance coverage. A small minority of the teachers were members of TEA which is a regional arm of the NEA.
Although, I have been retired for six years and not at all involved with Texas schools, at the time I was teaching the school administration was most responsive to ‘blocs of angry parents’ and bad PR.
The older teachers were upset at having to get more involved on social issues and giving up time from academics. Younger teachers loved the social lessons and seemed unconcerned about reaching curriculum objectives from which time was taken.
The older teachers were very frustrated at the indifference of parents who had no idea of what was going on in the classrooms.
The very **foundation** upon which socialist schooling is built is corrupt. The very foundation is a First Amendment, human rights, and freedom of conscience abuse!
Personally, I will no longer have a government teacher for a friend. Anyone who would cooperate with what follows below and do this to children is either too evil or too stupid. Congratulations to you for leaving the system.
1) It is built upon socialism and government force. Simply by attending children learn that the government can use its police force to gather the money needed to pay for their socialist and tuition-free schooling. Wow! Gee! If the government can use police force to give them tuition-free socialist schooling, why not other “free” socialist services and goods?
2) Even at its very best socialist school **forced** upon all of its children a generic and lukewarm Protestantism. ( Christ spits the lukewarm out of His mouth). It was an abomination in the 1800s and it would be an abomination to return to that now.
3) ALL socialist schools in this nation are godless. Godless is **not** religiously neutral. Children in these schools **must** think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the classroom, read their godless textbooks, and turn in their godless assignments.
4) It is impossible to have a religiously neutral education. Government socialist school today is dedicated to the establishment of the government religion of godless secular humanism. This is a First Amendment abomination. It is an abomination to force children to attend. It is an abomination to force taxpayers to pay for it.