I decided that if I was going to have to spend many, many hour riding shotgun on the teachers and the administration, I would rather spend the time for the exclusive use of my child.
If parents are too lazy to either homeschool OR watch the schools, then their kids can flip burgers while mine go on to sucessful lives.
I understand completely. I am not suggesting that you cure the public schools by yourself.
What we need is a group that can oppose the teachers' unions. I have in mind an organization that works to protect parental rights in education, in much the same way that the NRA works to protect Second Amendment rights. Would you support such a group?
Too many of their kids won't be flipping burgers. Instead, they will be living off the government dole at the expense of your children.
Too many of their kids won't be flipping burgers. Instead, they will be living off the government dole at the expense of your children.
I work hard so my wife can take the time to be an excellent homeschool teacher. Besides being beautiful, when she's not teaching, she's putting a new curriculum together, attending seminars and hosting TNTs (Teachers Night Together) with other homeschool moms. She also gets involved with online classical education discussions, writes her own homeschool website to encourage others, and various other things I (the principle) don't know about.
Outside of that we have little league, AWANA, piano lessons, etc. We have no time nor interest in fixing the public schools, but we do what we can to make the load a little lighter on public schools by homeschooling and encouraging others to do the same.