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“Removing the administrators is a fool’s errand. The well i full of the same sort of administrators.”

You are advocating what got us into this situation in the first place. As soon as an organization does something we dont like we abandon it, leaving to the leftys. Even if the replacement admins have the same mindset, they still wan to keep their jobs. Seeing what happened to their predicessor will teach them what is acceptable and what is not.

I am a public school teacher in Virginia. I have been saying this since March of 2006 on this forum. Sadly there are certain extremists that want to see all of us hung from trees and have all the schools burned tomorrow.

Never mind that there are a number of us on this forum that strongly support Homeschooling, charter schools, etc.... that is not good enough for them.

There is no question of abandoning public schools to the lefties. It is 100% their turf. The whole concept of public schools with any influence beyond the local is LEFT. Local administrators cannot change things much at all without losing precious federal and state funding or crossing the unions. Much of that funding cannot legally even be refused now and a federal dollar in the local system gives the feds control of that system because bureaucrats, being bureaucrats, cannot refuse outside funding at all, ever. It is not constitutionally possible. And to maintain that funding they often have to spend 2 local $2 local for every federal dollar they get on programs that no one wants and that could be done cheaper by the locals with their own money if they wanted it in the first place. By cheaper I mean that the locals financing their own program would have to spend less money for that program than they have to spend to acquire federal funding for it which comes with federal control of it and federal requirements for everything else the locals do. My wife has been a teacher for 35+ years and we are pretty aware of the ramifications of the federal and state dollar and the habits of administrators no matter what viewpoint they profess.

You cannot reform the system, not even in your own small locality. It is inherently a socialist enterprise. If you actually care for your children then you will get them out of the public schools. We raised four and we avoided public school for them. Among professional categories the one with the highest rate of home and/or private schooling for its children is public school teachers. There is a reason for that. It is certainly true in my county.