Bill Ayers would be so offended !!
How else could he propagate Socialism if we chose not to participate ?
We may own responsibility for education , but NEA controls what is being taught !
Some wise FReeper wrote the other day that homeschooling seems so expensive because it demands one parent home and not working earning a paycheck.
A message I heard thirty years ago from a fundamentalist pulpit was titled;
NEVER SACRIFICE ON THE ALTAR OF THE IMMEDIATE, THE ETERNAL BLESSINGS OF THE FUTURE.
And it was focused on being impatient and not doing the lonely, sometimes unrewarding work now, that will show up later ..... like having, training, disciplining and educating kids.
My thirty plus year olds are a blessing now in my older age when they all say, "Dad, you taught me __________________ ", and I never knew I had taught ___________ . ... (or couldn't remember)