Posted on 05/21/2012 5:27:03 AM PDT by Guido2012
If you want to know what really goes on in our public schools, go to a teacher-of-the-year banquet. Here you will see why schools aren't about academics anymore. Educators will never admit it openly, but an event like this reveals so much that outsiders never get to see.
School choice does allow parents to choose a private school that doesn’t accept government funding as well as homeschooling. The point is that real school choice means giving us our tax money back so we can use it to choose.
The unfortunate thing is that as soon as you present those tax dollars to the private institution, you compromise their ‘private-independent’status. Tax dollars, no matter what they are called are toxic and controlling. The progressive agenda can be alluring and deceptive. Choose very carefully.
Leftist gubmint unionistas are afraid that given the choice, parents will send their kids to schools that instill
the values they have at home. (or at least not directly undermine them)
That might not include: Earth worship ,worshipping The State and gay “marriage”.
Anymore? Really?
American compulsory government schooling was imported from Bismark’s Germany. It’s always been about Statism.
Read the truth for free:
http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/
And to pile on, free government education is straight out of Marx's Communist Manifesto. I'm sure there are some good quality public schools and teachers, but I'll wager they are more the exception than the rule.
We will defend your right to put your children in tax-supported government schools.
We want to maintain our right (and have the same government be responsible to secure our right) to NOT have our in any government-run school.
Here in Indiana, one of the most conservative of the Midwest states, academics be they good or bad, we see with our own eyes what gets off the big yellow indoctrination center wagon (a school bus) every afternoon right on our corner, less than 75 feet from our front door.
No thanks. We will help "improve" our society by NOT making those places a daily source of influences for 6 to 8 hours for our children.
Home schooling now for 31 years now, we shall continue.
Your critique of government schooling is superficial.
This is what schools teach:
http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt
Private schools are often as guilty.
To say that schooling should only focus on academics is... deplorable.
Why? Because the purpose of life itself is to know, love, and serve God in,this life, and to be happy forever with Him in the next.
Compulsory formal education, that occupies a child’s entire day, and which ignores this end, is abusive.
This natural right of children (the freedom to choose a form of education that serves this natural end) cannot be achieved under our current schooling system. Parents, as the natural primary educators of children, must be free to choose what they regard to be the best form of education for their children.
Vouchers, or the complete disestablishment of schooling, would be just systems for the furthering of formal education.
Those “tax dollars” are our money. The government took it from us or they wouldn’t have any to give. They should let us keep it in the first place so we can choose how to spend it ourselves on whatever school we decide to send our kids.
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