[Colofornian]

a lot of conservatives dont have much choice when it comes to sending their kids to public schools or not

A lot of conservatives don't want to make the hard choices when it comes to their kids:

(a) We don't want to take to time to debrief our public-schooled kids each day to see what they've been unnecessarily indoctrinated in; (b) We don't want to do much of any formal or informal ed of our children--even if they remain in public school; (c) We don't want to consider home schooling or online learning ops so readily available these days (even folks who say they don't have the ability/time to do this are not off of the hooks I mentioned above in (a) and (b);

[DPB101]

Same old tune: Its the parents fault.

No it isn't. Most of the 2.5 million NEA members vote for every tax raising, family killing, depravity creating issue the left puts out there. They are tapped out. Working two jobs to support the people who are supposed to be teaching their kids.

With the money people are paying, there is no excuse for the schools being the way they are.

[JusPasenThru]

Yikes! All three of my children have gone through private schooling because of the indoctrinatioin issue, amoung others. Do you have any idea how much it costs to send a kid to a private school these days? Which is why the NEA will fight vouchers to the death.

[ladylib]

My niece lives in a school district where the high school is one of the top 100 public high schools in the country, according to "Newsweek." Her parents don't care how "good" the local high school is, she's going to a private prep school.