[Bloody Sam Roberts]

>>I have never seen a teacher demand that all school supplies become everyone's property.<<
What state are YOU in?

I've never seen it either. I'm from Massachusetts and have 2 kids that are in some fine public schools.

I am closely involved with my children's education in the schools in our town and I must say that this article and many other instances of what goes down in public schools across the country are BS to me. The weird stuff that I read about on FR doesn't go down here.

This is why I will, from time to time, take some Freepers to task for painting public schools with the same broad brush. Not all of them are government indoctrination centers. I wouldn't put up with that kind of BS in my town's schools and neither would any of the Conservative parents I know who also send their kids to the same schools here.

[netmilsmom]

But the problem is that so many people are like me. I am here and I am Conservative, but when my daughter was entering K, I had no clue. I sent the stuff and she lost it. The second year I learned it was not a fluke.

It's easy to say, don't paint with a broad brush but in the long run I think you will find more parents with my story than yours.

In MI the solution to bad schools was open districts. It was great for the parents in a bad district but people like me, who moved here because of the "Great Schools" had the classes dumbed down for those coming from other districts. We don't even have an option to move to a better district unless we move out of state.

It's wonderful that you have found a great district. Not all of us have. And some of us live in VERY union controlled states.

[Axenolith]

When my wife was in school out here in CA she was initially a straight A and straight laced student. Some enterprising social engineers figured that if they put her in the screw up class she'd "rub off on them". Care to guess what happened? It took her a LONG time to overcome all of the negative outcomes of that little experiment, and it didn't help that her parents didn't do squat about it...