The unions must go
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The **fundamental** problem is that education is never religiously neutral. Never!
And, government schools will always crush freedom of conscience and trash the First Amendment.
Freedom of conscience, free speech, free press, free assembly, free expression of religion, and freedom of religion can NOT coexist with government schools! Government schools trash every one of these rights.
Solution: Begin privatizing universal K-12 education.
I'm not at all sure that would work. A mass withdrawal would be followed by a massive tax increase federally and a million local increases.
Post 75 refers to the parental "addiction" to free govt babysitting; that is only half the problem, the other being the cash someone's getting when a school district receives $10,000 per child and spends hardly a fraction of it on appropriate expenditures. You take a kid out of the system, you are taking that $10,000 away. I have seen the curriculum, the teachers, the services of the public school system in our area, and they are not as good as the parochial high school charging less than half that.
Sadly, wintertime, I must agree with you. Parents close their eyes to the shortcomings and the outright evils of public school, because they are getting free babysitting in the short term. It's a fool's paradise.
Parents, if you send your children to public school, you are permitting your children to be indoctrinated and reared by the same scoundrels who are chewing away at the foundations of this country in the halls of Congress, and in the courts, and in the media. You are enlisting your children as foot soldiers in the war against America, and trusting to fortune that they will miraculously come by the good sense to reject the role. Would you throw them in the pond and trust them to dog-paddle, or tell yourself, "Oh it's okay, OUR pond is shallow!"