The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is communist.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children like you can.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
It is hypocritical for you to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. And your children will know it.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government “education” program.
Another Reason to Homeschool Ping.
I agree that the subject matter taught is liberal, but I disagree with the schools being overwhelmingly authoritarian.
My wife is a teacher, who hates hiw they are forced to teach the curriculum, but she says that the parents have the principals and teachers in fear of their jobs and believe that their children can do no wrong.
I finally decided to pull my kid from public school mainly over this. ALL of the terminology - and thus much of the attitude - derived from prison admin. “Cells”, “blocks”, “lockdown”, “parole”, etc. Sick beyond words, and an integral part of the emerging police state I think.
Seems like a lot of public school teachers are ending up in prison recently, for acting like their students are their own personal dating pool.
Schools do not put the kids on medication... your family doctor or a psychiatrist do. I get tired of parents conceding all of their parental authority and decisions to government run institutions. No one is required to put their kids on ADD meds or any other type just because a teacher/counselor recommends this.
One of my kids went to private schools the other transferred to public school in fourth grade. Both received excellent educations... school systems differ from state to state, and county to county. In fact my daughter who is graduating from public high School was lucky enough to take 8 AP classes.
Painting America’s school systems with a broad brush is what the left does... and why they want a National system.
I’m perfectly happy with the way the schools are run in my very blue county, in a very blue state.
The warden was a widely notorious character named "Moosehockey" or somesuchting.
All things run by a central government eventually devolve to the standards of the lowest common denominator.
I cringe when I hear schools talking about being under ‘lockdown’ - that’s a prison term. The again with union goons doing the ‘teaching’ (if you can call a system that can’t teach kids to read, ‘teaching’) it might be the right term.
bkmk
Schools are prisons for children who have commited the crime of being born.
Teachers pretend to teach, children pretend to learn, and parents pretend that the teachers are teaching and the children are learning.
The system works.
Ever since Columbine and the responses to it, I’ve sworn since that day to make sure my kids are going to private schools.
One word: Beslan.
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.