School will consider limiting visits by PARENTS

KSTP ^ | 04/24/02

[weikel]

This reminds me of my communist Middle School. Thank God my High School was better.

[weikel]

I agree with your points on public schools but the concentration camps will be worse with no one looking. While public schools regretably exist it makes sense to both push for their abolition AND to make sure they aren't being run badly.

[DLfromthedesert]

In Arizona we have tax credits instead of vouchers. This works well because at that point it's still our money.

[aomagrat]

It's hard to properly indroctrinate young minds when parents keep interfering.

[marrsstar4]

I have a boy in elem., who's backpack has to be clear,

they say this is so they can see if the 8 year olds

are carring any gun/knive, but I now think it may be

to see if the children are taking home any book there

reading and don't want the parent to find out.

[3catsanadog]

School restricts parental visits.

Then when their children misbehave, school piously sniffs that those same parents they pushed away from the school need to be more involved in their children's lives. (Just a vision I expect to see in the future at this same school.)

[headsonpikes]

The Public Schools are Weapons of Mass Destruction.

They are irredeemable.

[weikel]

I liked my High School and was under the impression most other kids there did too and we generally got into good colleges 4 kids in my class to Harvard, 2 to MIT etc( it should still be privatized but its much better than a normal public school). My Middle School was communist and miserable.

[headsonpikes]

Well, I'm a survivor, too.

People survived Stalin's camps, also; that doesn't change the character of the camp.

[weikel]

Some are much better than others thats all Im saying.

[headsonpikes]

I agree with your limited thesis; some camps are better than others. ;^)

[stainlessbanner]

"The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense."
— Karl Marx (1848)

[Lorianne]

Parents have an option other than homeschooling. Just show up at school. And volunteer at the school. I volunteer in my kid's class 1 day a week. I learn a lot of what is going on from the kids just from that 1 day.

At my kid's school you're supposed to stop by the office and get a pass. I understand this is for security, but I still have a problem with parents being considered untrustworthy. I suggested that parents do not need a pass but anyone else does, including grandparents, aunts, uncles etc... The teachers should know the parents by sight without a pass and could question anyone else or someone who appeared to be roaming around aimlessly in the schoold could be required to give their kids name, grade and classroom. If they didn't know this they would be suspect.

I show up all the time at my kids' school unannounced and rarely comply with the "pass" rule. But that is because I'm there enough everyone knows me by sight (and sound). I'm sure there are some at my kid's school who would like to see less of me. They are welcome to call the cops and try to get me removed if they like. I think they realize how futile that approach would be, however.