I grew up in a time when we thought the Berlin Wall would never collapse. It did though. Please consider the following:
* All that is needed is for enough parents to remove their children. Private school enrollment is growing, and homeschooling continues its 15% to 7% increase **every** year. Do the math.
* Also,,,please remember that those parents who are privately are politically very savvy. Homeschoolers, especially, are very, very highly networked.
* Then add to the mix the THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of children desperately languishing on waiting lists for charters. Do you really think that legislators will be deaf to their cries. I don't think so.
* Do you honestly think that having the homosexual agenda pushed in the government schools will help increase enrollment? I don't think so.
* We now have the Internet, talk radio, and Fox. Government school outrages and abuses are now getting the publicity that they deserve.
* Finally, homosexuals are moving into government teaching and administration. Homosexuals hire homosexuals. Parents will take note of this.
Conclusion: I am very hopeful. The cracks already exist in the government school citadel foundation, and the cracks widen every year.
Interesting choice for a metaphor. The Berlin Wall was some silly construct meant to keep people from being free; it was doomed to fall from the start. Public schools are public accommodations meant to bring education to everyone; they have been around---in my neck of the woods, anyway---from practically the very founding of the New World.
All that is needed is for enough parents to remove their children. Private school enrollment is growing, and homeschooling continues its 15% to 7% increase **every** year. Do the math.
I have no issue with those who choose to homeschool their children.
Also,,,please remember that those parents who are privately are politically very savvy. Homeschoolers, especially, are very, very highly networked.
That sort of blanket statement is very easy to make, and it may very well have some semblance of truth to it, but quite honestly, the sword cuts two ways. I know people who homeschool who are complete dimwits; they have no business at all educating a dog, let alone their own children. It's quite sad, actually, when one's political agenda so blinds that person to the cold, hard, truth---and the child suffers for it.
Do you honestly think that having the homosexual agenda pushed in the government schools will help increase enrollment? I don't think so.
Finally, homosexuals are moving into government teaching and administration. Homosexuals hire homosexuals. Parents will take note of this.
Homos don't frighten me. Not in the least.
Conclusion: I am very hopeful. The cracks already exist in the government school citadel foundation, and the cracks widen every year.
You see what you want to see, I guess, and this is what I see: I see the problem not so much as one with the concept of "public schools," but rather, the "mission creep" of public schools.