To Parents with Children in Public School

Well thank you very much! What a kind thing to say. Though I must admit, to my shame, that I have been caustic in the past--not on this subject however.

There was a time, when I was first homeschooling, when I had such a passion for it that I was convinced it was for EVERY parent. I quickly found out this was not true and that there were plenty of good parents out there doing a great job with there children in public schools. I think in some cases homeschooling parents think that it validates them in some way if they condemn all public schooling.

"How dare them expose the fact that blacks were previously denied the right to vote and the legal ability to participate in the economy of their local communities, all before the adults in the lives of those first graders can indoctrinate them as to the innate inferiority of blacks. The shock! The gall! The horror!"

I'm afraid that you are ignorant of the agenda in play. The purpose of the classes on the Civil Rights movement is only tangentially about the difficulties suffered by blacks. Its actual purpose is to instill white guilt. The leftest elites who control academia, media, politics, and law in America view the white middle class as the single major obstacle to the enactment of their socialist utopia. This group (the white middle class) harbors cultural, religious, and political ideas which are anathema to the elite liberals.

As a result, the leftist elites have chosen to pursue the methodology of Antonio Gramsci. He was an Italian socialist who argued that communists must infiltrate the institutions of culture and deconstruct the culture, religion, and traditions of the people in question. Thus disconnected from their roots, the masses would be alienated and ripe for the political agenda of the socialists.

The bombardment of middle class white children in america with hatred and shame for their religion, ancestors, and culture is the method by which this recalcitrant demographic will surrender to the ideological program of the leftist elites.

My daughter has a severe speech problem. We knew that she would not go to my son's old private school. They didn't have the services that she needed, and we couldn't pay for school and services.

After looking at the public school, we liked it so much we decided to switch my son from the private school. It's been great for all of my kids.

The public schools really can help special needs kids. My daughter gets speech and occupational therapy. This year, she'll see a reading specialist every day. If we need to, she can go into a special ed classroom with only 12 kids, 1 teacher, and several aides. The teacer in the special ed class really does teach. I observed her class a lot last year, and I was impressed.

Here's an interesting (and cute) story. My nephew, who is five years old and in kindergarden, likes to refer to me as Mr. President - This began after he overheard me and my wife's family discussing politics and one of them saying I should be president.

Anyway, one day we had just gone out to pickup a pizza pie and as we were getting out of the car, he had just called me Mr. President again. I told him, "since I am the president, don't you think you should carry the pizza upstairs for me?" His reply - "No way, if you are the president, you work for me, so I am your boss. You have to carry the pizza up!" So I say to him, "maybe you should be the president." He replies, "I can't. I am only five. You have to be 35 to be a president."

This was two years ago and it still blows me away. I asked where he learned all of this and he said at school. He knew lots of things that I couldn't believe. How many US senators, etc. I was very impressed.

I, on the other hand, also went to public schools and they sucked. I did have some good teachers here and there, though.

I would consider your experiences to be unusual, in a good way, for your children. Having participated in both private and public schools, I have noticed the ones with the active parents are always the better schools. When parents value education and make the time for it, either at home or volunteering in the school, children succeed. That benefit doesn't remain in the home, it helps society as well.

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