The point is not, and never has been, to denigrate dedicated government school teachers. The point is that the system is utterly corrupt, that the government school system was a mistake from the beginning, and that there are relatively few teachers and administrators today (and fewer every year) who can honestly be said to be competent and dedicated. But I am glad that there are still a few teachers and administrators like that.
Adults who feel called to work in the government schools, however, need to tell the truth about the system to parents, not make excuses for government school failure, not tell parents that their schools are "different", or regurgitate NEA talking points attacking homeschoolers and private schools.
I know Christian teachers and administrators, including superintendents and school board members, who are telling the truth and counseling parents to get their children out by any means possible. They understand that institutions and individuals are not the same thing. You can have good people in a bad institution, and when you do, the institution usually wins. They recognize that and are consciously making sure that they aren't being co-opted by the institution.
I hope your daughter blesses you with many, many grandchildren.
And it isn't just teachers doing the regurgitating. It is the liberal elite establishment in general.
Law & Order CI just did a subtle hit piece on homeschoolers this week. Girl was homeschooled by her parents, who were old enough to be her grandparents. They sheltered her so much from the world, no tv, no friends, no internet that she couldn't wait to get away from them as an adult.
Of course, she ended up being pretty darn sharp and successfully manipulative in the end, :-).
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Good post, but you could have stopped here. :) The system has become a bloated bureaucracy and political force whose last priority is teaching.