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Your opinion is noted.
I too agree that the teachers unions need to go or be reformed, preferably GO.
Home schooling worked for the founding fathers, as I recall.

I have just had my property taxes raised again, primarily to feed the school industry. I would be less hostile to Public Schooling if: they taught real subjects. They really cared about the kids, which most don't. And if it didn't cost SO much, due to waste and give-aways to "the underprivilaged" i.e. illegal immigrants.

The South lost the foolish war of 1861-1865. However so did the North. We are all stuck with an out of control, stuck on stupid gov. in DC.

It's just time for a change. We cannot continue with the madness.

Teach em the 3 R's and throw out 95% of all the other CRAP.

That's all I've got to say about that.

Let Freedom Ring........................................

As I said you need to study some history. The Founders had private tutors for the most part if they were wealthy enough. This was nothing like what we know as home schooling just the use of professional teachers. And probably the majority were college educated: Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, all were for example.

So home schooling did NOT work for the founders. Those who were not extensively educated generally were apprenticed or inherited plantations or farms. Over 2/3 of those signing the Constitution were lawyers.

My late wife was a public school teacher and I can assure you she, like most teachers I have known, cared deeply about her students and worked extremely hard. Mythology is mythology even if popular at FR. Public education is a tremendous bargain and my boys attended both public and private schools so I am familiar with both and saw no big advantage to the private. IF one wishes to get an education one can in either. My real estate taxes are about 4 Gs and that does not begin to cover tuition at a private school much less a year of public school.

"Real" subjects? Calculus, Advanced Algebra, Physics, Statistics, even Advanced Placement Statistics, choice of three or four foreign languages, there are loads of "real" subjects that are available in almost all schools.

And we are NOT stuck with an out of control government in Washington. We have the government that the American People put there because that is what they wanted. It will not change unless the American People force a massive change. We have a representative government and not liking the results cannot change that fact.

The 3 Rs won't even get you close to being educated nor was that the curriculum of the Founders which included Greek, Latin, French, Science, Philosophy, as well as Music and Drawing, and Geometry, Trigonometry and Algebra.