There are a few seconds left before midnight, and action is required to save our families and the Republic.
I know it's hard. Our family has done it. My wife and I have had countless screaming matches over it. But here we are, 12 years later, and my oldest is graduating from HS. She's a doll, and I attribute this fact mainly to homeschooling.
Sadly, I had to give in to my wife this year and put our youngest into the gov't schools. She was harangued for a year by three teacher SILs who said that my youngest, who is mildly autistic, needed school resources.
The propaganda worked. I don't have to tell anyone here that she is getting nothing. They just put her in the "dumb" class, where she's studying things she learned two years ago.
Having experienced both sides now, I can confirm that governent school is a joke. But I don't have to tell Freepers that.
So when are you pulling your kids?
Would love too. But being divorced and the sole bread winner for both households with travel as part of the job, I cannot. But, I would be happy to pay a teacher all the money for my kids currently going to the state. SCHOOL CHOICE is needed for this to become a reality. I applaud and support those who do.
We just went through the problems you will face in the coming years with an autistic child.. The schools are faced with a real conundrum, they haven’t any more tools to deal with this problem than the best Universities have..
We have been hiring special Ed teachers for homeschool for 4 years, and it got so expensive that we had to look to the government schools.. It took a great lawyer to get the school to fund a private school for our boy who is now 13..
I feel terrible for the school district having to foot this bill taking away the funds for the schools for the rest of the children.. We were paying over $30,000 a year for private teachers.. At least the District got a much lower price to accomplish a better outcome.. Our boy is doing so much better now..
I wish there was better news on how to find an answer to this epidemic..
Here’s an interesting link one of my friends posted on FB this morning. Story of a homeschooled family of 7. Quite inspiring African American family...they have it together.
(Lib response) Yeah, what business was it of his? He should not have gotten involved. Serves him right!
I have heard Rush take a couple of ‘pot-shots’ at public education recently...he needs to ramp it up; just like Beck.
There can’t be such a thing as winning any sort of a culture war while sending your kids off to the enemy for indoctrination.....
The people running these schools simply have no business anywhere near your kids. And yet these are the people who will be mentoring our kids for 12 to 16 years. You get what you get. Don't be surprised at the rather pathetic result.
If these incidents were rare, man-bites-dog, it would be no big deal. But in fact these are everyday stories. The people who teach your kids are not qualified to teach them. You're crazy if you turn your kids over to them.
I tell anyone who will listen, get your kids out of public school. Grandparents may have to help. If you don't feel qualified to homeschool, find a private school, even if its of a denomination other than your own. If there aren't any, your church should start one. It makes no sense to send missionaries around the world while letting amoral incompetents evangelize your child into their world view.
The war of ideas is fought on several fronts but one of the main ones is the school and university. If you abdicate control of your children's education to your ideological enemies, you have surrendered. We graduate wave after wave of kids who have no clue when it comes to the foundational principles of the nation, foundational principles of life, and recipients of a dumbed down substitute education to boot.
Have been home schooling our 6 kids for years. Two are grown now and we have four left.
My oldest son was diagnosed with cancer when he was nine. The gov’ment school showed no understanding when we needed to keep our other kids out of school due to certain treatment requirements of the oldest.
When we finally got tired of their crap, we took all our kids out of public school forever.
Best thing we ever did. My kids are well behaved and polite.
And always test at least 3 grades higher than their current grade level. Well worth the sacrifice.
I wouldn’t mind considering it. I just wonder how I get him from homeschool to college? a great SAT score?