[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.

[Texbob]

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

[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.

[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!

[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.)

[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.