School will consider limiting visits by PARENTS

KSTP ^ | 04/24/02

[TxBec]

this is appalling, but it was already posted this morning..

[wi jd]

Two words: Home School.

[firewalk]

I like your name & Bump!

[KC Burke]

Its hard to be culturally conservative if you vote politically liberal and its about time the Minnisota voter understood what they have brought on themselves all these years.

I imagine that the heavy timber, mining, shipping and agricultural nature of the economy has played a part. Diagnosis of the agenda of Rino, big government, republicans offered perhaps gave them little choice but to vote their pocket books, but conservatives are out there now and if they don't see the difference, then there is no hope for them.

[moyden]

The liberal is a thug.

[gumbo]

Great post bump. Parents, by now we all should have seen the (literal) handwriting on the wall. Only a few years ago I thought our local schools, in a fairly conservative district, were still OK.

The schools put on a show of wanting "parental involvement," putting out questionnaires asking for parents to join panels reviewing "family life" (i.e., sex-ed) curriculum, and other "parent-advisory" boards. But none of us who'd signed up ever got a response!

After seeing up-close-and personal the idiotic new teachers, fresh out of brain-washing "teachers' colleges;" the dumbing down of the curriculum and the leftist propaganda that is being substituted for true academic subjects, we wised up.

We now homeschool our youngest, and have our remaining high school student in an alternative academy.

[wallcrawlr]

I am listening to a live discussion on am1500 kstp discussing this topic.
The excuse the School is giving is, they are trying to protect against disruptive parents. As you can guess "disruptive" can be defined as, overly involved with your childs education.
Pathetic.

[ecurbh]

Homeschool ping.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Thanks for the re-post, wallcrawlr. I missed the earlier one.

gumbo's complaint " But none of us who'd signed up ever got a response! " is oh too common. Teachers must pass around their blacklists. Parents have to morph into puppets of the liberal agenda to get invited to volunteer their time at the school for anything, and in order to avoid reparations against their kids.

[billbears]

And it states emphatically that America must cut defense spending and raise corporate taxes.

Raising corporate taxes? Guys, this sounds familiar for some reason....

[Texbob]

Yeah, the schools do not want the parents to see the admin. staff molesting their childern.

[wallcrawlr]

Hey, this isn't a catholic school we are discussing.

[wallcrawlr]

It was joke.
And a funny one too.

[NerdDad]

Doesn't happen just in the North and the tyranny isn't limited to curriculum. Here in MS, we have similarly been "requested" to make prior arrangements before visiting classrooms. All parents are required to check in at the office and wait (sometimes a long time) for the teacher to come to the office and escort us to the classroom.

But that's not all. We took our kids out of school one Friday for a family trip. On the following Monday, the high school principal told my wife that it would be an unexcused absence because we didn't notify the school in advance and get their permission. He also told her that he, not the parent, was the "final authority" when it came to deciding if our child could be absent from school.

[gumbo]

Teachers must pass around their blacklists.

I have to say, after this happened three times (signing up for "parent advisory" groups, then never getting a response), I started to wonder if I'd been lured into blacklisting myself.

[TomSmedley]

If I sit down at the government table,I have no right to complain about the menu. What it feeds me, I will swallow! He who pays the piper calls the tune. Parents do not pay for public education, after all. The State (civil government and its minions) does, using confiscated money.

Want to control what your kids are learning? Then pay for it yourself! And work steadfastly to defund these concentration camps for kids!

[Free the USA]

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[wallcrawlr]

Great point.
Some people look for public dollars to follow their child no matter where they attend.

Paying for school yourself is the only case where the "separation of church and state" makes sense.
It will maintain the purity of private schools.