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Public school officials are there only for as long as you allow them to be.

You get an A+. If you don't like the school administration, it's your own fault for moving into the district or for voting them in. Kick out the idiots. Go to the school board meetings. Visit with your school principal frequently. Be the squeaky wheel. Become a homeroom volunteer. Attend or organize a PTO. Start a phone brigade. Run for school board yourself. Know when to be the squeaky wheel and when to operate behind the scenes.

You wouldn't believe how much hooey I stopped in its tracks when my kids were in school. Most was stopped within the hour and no one ever knew who or how it ended.

Each parent has but one life to live. He or she can spend a significant part of that life loving and raising and nurturing the children OR spend a whole lot of the available time mud wrestling with the officials of P.S. 666 and a wide variety of other P.S. 666 parents. School board meetings? Phone brigades? Homeroom volunteering? Visiting the local edjamakshun commissar? Join or organize a PTO????? Run for school board? Be a squeaky wheel? Puhleeeeeze!!!

Home schooling seems a LOT simpler and a much more direct and effective effort to see to it that one's kids are as far ahead of those at P.S. 666 as you desire and/or by making education something that fascinates kids by broadening the experience far beyond the capacities of the drones running P.S. 666. If homeschooling is too intimidating, there are plenty of affordable private school alternatives.

In the gummint skewel version, the emphasis is on football, basketball, cheerleading, extracurricular entertainments of all sorts to keep the kids from being driven stark raving mad by the mind numbing and stultifying nature of gummint skeweling. Political correctness uber alles. Common Curse Curriculum. Don't you DARE mention God or morality. Etc.

In the private school version, you can choose the nature of the education and the curriculum offered by local schools. OTOH, too much emphasis on entertainment to mimic gummint skewels without the deviant curricula. You can even choose RELIGIOUS schools.

Home school and YOU are in complete control over curriculum with very few academic restrictions in many jurisdictions. Absolutely no time and effort wasted on useless edjamakashun bureaucrats who are convinced that Trotsky and Horace Mann and John Dewey and Walter Mondale's secular humanist dad knew better than you how to raise and educate YOUR kids. You can even decide what your kids might like for lunch without the interference of Moochelle or the Federal Department of (so-called) Education.