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Posted on 08/19/2009 5:12:42 PM PDT by wintertime
What wintertime said. Get your kids out of govt schools.
Your local sd is no exception. You may think it is...you may find it convenient to think it is...but it isn’t.
We’re talking about your child’s mind, your child’s future and fate. Quit taking short-term advantage of the welfare system of day care. In the long term, you can’t afford it, the children can’t afford it, America is dying of it.
Get your kids out of public schools.
Public schools are failures and disasters and they have been for a very long time now.
If parents can afford to send their children to a private school or a charter school, they should do so immediately. If not, they should consider home schooling their children and start with reading, writing and math. Follow up those subjects with history, geography, civics, and very basic science.
ALL government schools in this nation ( by law) teach from a godless perspective. A godless worldview has religious consequences and these consequences are NOT religiously neutral.
A godless curriculum teaches children how to live without God. It's taken a few generations but we are now seeing the non-neutral religious, cultural, and political fallout from this godless indoctrination.
Government schools from the very beginning in the mid to late 1800s have **always** been about turning Americans into socialists and into good little workers for the state.
JUst look at the godless liberals like Obummer and his fellow flunkies and partners in crime.
This is “news”? It’s been this way for at least a half-century and longer.
Government schools are reform-proof. They were designed to produce the results we’re getting. We can no more reform public schools than we could reform brothels or concentration camps.
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The arguments for socialized schooling are the same as the arguments for socialized medicine. Neither has any place in a free society.
http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm
Federal intrusion into public education exploded under President Bush with No Child Left Behind. Local choice and parental choice has suffered. Flexibility has suffered. Bright children have suffered as focus has switched from teaching for high achievement to training children to pass an almost endless stream of federally mandated tests. The effects are being felt in all 50 states.
With many candidates running in the opposite direction last year, Mitt Romney repeatedly reiterated his strong support for No Child Left Behind.
I see that the Department of Education can actually make a difference. So I supported No Child Left Behind. I still do. I know there are a lot in my party that don’t like it, but I like testing in our schools. I think it allows us to get better schools.
2007 Republican Debate in South Carolina May 15, 2007
If we sincerely want to lessen federal involvement with an eye toward ending federal intrusion altogether, the first step has to be nominating candidates who are against always expanding the federal role and taking away the right of parents to make the best choices for their children.
We need to say 'no' to candidates like Romney who do not support parents and students, but instead support more and more federal involvement in local issues..
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The idea of trying to win any sort of a culture war while sending your children off to the enemy for indoctrination doesn’t really compute...
It amazes me that so many people who fight against socialized medicine will turn around and use the same arguments they reject in that case to justify keeping socialized schooling.
You can.
There are a lot of resources and you will benefit WAY BEYOND your investment.
One place to stop and visit:
(I am a member and do not work for HSLDA)
I start homeschooling my 6th grade son for the first time tomorrow after 6 years in the government school system.
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