Too late for me!
Our oldest grandchild is graduating from UC this semester. I’ll send her this article nonetheless.
She was already a liberal when she graduated from high school in Fort Collins.
Now, on to reality. At least she has a job.
It’s amazing to see your blood transmogrified by the public school system. It happened to my youngest daughter in high school. When she left for college she was a full blown communist according to her.
I didn’t give her a dime for tuition. By the time she graduated and got a j-o-b she started the slow process of finding truth in life or as I like to think, the natural common law life that has served society from the beginning.
I wish we would have homeschooled her. I couldn’t quit work or reduce my workload without severe consequences to the family’s well being and my wife said she was a mother not a teacher and was afraid to try.
Times are different now. Homeschooling has many more success opportunities than what was available in the 90’s and early new century. I encourage every parent to consider homeschooling and pressuring our representatives to change how public educational monies, in Washington State each student receives almost 17k per year, give the money to the parents.
Let them decide what school to send their kids to, our education system would become the best in the world overnight. It’s a must actually. Like Ted Danson likes to pontificate that the climate has 10 years before doomsday, the public education system is on the same course. It’s dooming society and we must stop it.
Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn points out that education is fundamental, a foundation of society, if the foundation changes, everything else changes too. The growth in our public schools from 2000-2019 is a huge problem and it explains a lot about the ruddy complexion of today’s public schools.
During this period student enrollment grew by 7.6%. Teacher increases 8.7%, however the real growth is in district administrators which grew 87.6% during the same period! No wonder schools have failed and are going to continue to fail.
This is the most important political fight we must engage and win. It won’t be easy, the unions are liars and will use every ounce of their life’s energy defending their fiefdoms, but we will prevail…for the children, and western society too.