I have a 16 month old and I’m already worried about sending her to the local elementary school her in my upper middle class NJ suburb. Supposedly it’s a great primary school and every other parent who has slightly older kids tells me this... and they’re not all libs. So that gives me some peace of mind. For now.
But how the heck do you vet this kind of thing before it’s too late ? ?? Seems next to impossible.
Trust me on this if nothing else please.
Most parents have no idea about their kids at a school or have no idea what the teacher is really like.
Most teachers will tell the parents your child is so good your child work so well, your child does great work.
Of course parents want to hear this and that is what teachers say.
The parents hear this and then tell other parents that Mrs Smith is a great teacher.
Why is she?
Well Mrs Smith gets compliments that her child is great.
Of course ask the parents what their child does for class today, ask them did the teacher leave the class for some times a few times a day.
Most parents have no idea what the teacher is like and don’t want to so long as they hear a bunch of crap about their child being great.
Just be friendly and approach some of the teachers at the school, and just talk. It will come out. Liberals always have to brag about their “progressive” ideas.
My kids are all grown now and out of school, but it was difficult enough to parent in the 90’s and 2000’s. I sent mine to parochial school for the most part. I did home school one for a year (6th grade) when he was extremely ill. I was appalled at the public schools back then, and while parochial schools have their problems, too, they have a different values code than the public schools did.
However, if I were raising my kids these days, I am quite sure I would be home-schooling them all the way through. If and when I have grandchildren, I will be urging my children to do that, and I will offer up my service to them. I wouldn’t in a million years let a child go to a public school these days. Public schools now are nothing more than government subsidized indoctrination camps, the same as back then, only it has gotten worse.