And you have just painted yourself as well.
I don’t think most people realize just how bad the schools are these days. The schools don’t even want kids to be able to learn on their own. That stands in the way of the ideological indoctrination required to create a society of dependent, compliant, robots.
I went to a public school myself but it was long enough ago that we still had teachers who were there because they loved teaching and seeing kids learn. These days, there isn’t a chance in hell that I would send a kid to my old school.
I am not a fringe, holier than thou person.
I am not holier than thou.
Well, maybe than thou, but not than everybody.
My point is that, while I admire people who are able and willing to home school, it is elitist in the sense that only a priveleged few can do it.
Public schools are sagging for various reasons but they are not totally useless.
All we need to do is a few sensible things and schools will be a viable option.
We need to abolish the education feds, and the unions among school teachers so that teachers can be judged on merit.
We should not burden teachers or other students with disruptive students. They should be expelled or sent to alternative facilities.
We should create options to bad public schools like vouchers to private schools. Private schools often do a better job for far less money.
Now, my parents home schooled in this sense. We went to public schools which were just fine back then. We were also raised in a home that had tons of books and took a daily newspaper and where the parents were good, loving people of high moral character who also had large vocabularies.
We learned from all that.
Is Rick Santorum planning to home school everybody at the White House or just his kids?
It’s a ridiculous ploy for the evangelical vote.