[Waryone]

The problem you have, even as an involved parent, is that you cannot be with your child the entire time they are at public school. There are far more distractions, bad influences, and occurrences of poor socialization that take place in public schools.

I'm not talking about some kids who chew gum and talk out of turn. I'm talking about sex on school buses and drugs in the lunchroom. I'm talking about gangs and cliques. I'm talking about teachers and administrators who would rather spend their time socially engineering (brainwashing) your children than teaching them reading, writing, and arithmetic.

I'm glad you spend time helping your child. I homeschool but I have friends who do just as you do. It is the only way to get anything out of the public school system today. But all the parental assistance in the world cannot protect a child from what faces them in the schools.

A one on one teaching situation is best for any child, but a one on one situation without unnecessary and harmful distractions is even better. Homeschoolers do best because they have both.

[MarMema]

I'm talking about teachers and administrators who would rather spend their time socially engineering (brainwashing) your children than teaching them reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Which is exactly what happens here - Washington State. They have no sense of responsibility for the time you give them your child. I once discovered quite accidentally that my son had spent the entire day in the gym watching a play.

At age five in Kindergarten, we received requests for not one, but two sex education films to be shown.

Then I brought him home and taught him to read and write.

[wintertime]

Waryone,

Regarding: Toxic school socialization

What the children in school are learning are prison survival skills. They wear faddish clothes ( gang colors) to identify their clique ( gang) from others. All schools have their alpha males and alpha queens to keep the lesser kids in line.

Really,,,,,the reason "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Mean Girls" were such successful movies is that humor is truth stretched a little bit.

Some parents mistakenly think that children pick their friends. NO WAY! It is the school clique ( prison gang) that chooses their members.

Thankfully, humans are adaptable. Most make the transition from prison survival socialization to the more mature behavior they will need to learn if they are to be successful in their marriages, with their in-laws, work members, and neighbors.

Also.....why should children be expected to tolerate in school sexual harassments, teasing, and the physical and emotional abuse that would win an adult MILLIONS? Huh? Adults are awarded millions and a kid is told that this toxic environment is good for him?

Sorry,,,,,I don't get it.