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If you want to save your country, get into the schools and get the secular humanism out. Review the curriculum taught the children and replace it with curriculum that teaches children to value and protect life liberty and property. You think they are being taught American values, but they are not, and generations suceeding us will only be more soul-less, more valueless and more apathetic.

The schools are not alright, the kids are not alright and they will help to lead America to its destruction, because they have never been taught to believe in America or America's founding principles.

I do not say this lightly. What we are watching now is the repudiation of the American way, and if you want to reverse this, the children must be saved from the humanist indoctrination centers we call schools.

I agree, and would only add:

Put the things that you value most in their hearts at an early age.

Teach them to think for themselves at an early age. I have taught my son from the time he was little that if something did not sound right, or seem right to go to the source. Find the truth. Do not ever just take someone's word for something, especially if it doesn't sit right. I included his school textbooks and classroom talks in that discussion as he grew older.

Teach them to be respectful in expressing their opinions, and not so much confrontational as "make the other person think". They have a right to do that.

My son respectfully protested to his fourth grade teacher in public school about the content of his world history textbook. He said, "why is it that all these religions are covered, but the only Christians mentioned in the whole book are the Coptic Christians in Egypt and its just a paragraph? That's not right."

She told me about it. She agreed with him, and she respected his opinion. She was a no-nonsense teacher and a good one. We have been blessed in the public schools. He has done this a few times since in various instances and has never had any problem.

He was the sole Libertarian vote in the Presidential election in his classroom.

I pray constantly for his teachers, every year and before every move. He has been blessed with, for the most part, great teachers, and the couple who were not were in the last couple of years and they have both been good lessons and a blessing in the long run. I review every curriculum, every textbook, and every packet that my son is presented and studies at school. I have opted him out of things I think are better taught at home. I discuss those things with him. I'm not a perfect mother, and I am sure that I am not aware of every single thing he encounters, but I am not raising a public school drone.

We need people on the school boards, quality public school teachers who are paid a decent enough wage to make it an attractive profession, and parents who are involved and care about the character of their children.

I see it as a potential failure of my generation (the 35-45 year old set).