Protect your children! ( Get your children out of the government schools!)

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Posted: December 1, 2007 | Joseph Farah

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Are you looking for some good news? Do you want evidence Americans are still willing to fight back against the tide of coercive immorality?

Is there really a chance this generation will recognize injustice and abuse and indoctrination and make the sacrifices necessary to ending it?

I got a morale boost this week reading about the way a large group of parents in Iowa responded when their government school district imposed a "cross-dressing day" on their kids.

When a Des Moines public school encouraged an event it characterized as a "gender-bender," where boys dressed as girls and girls as boys, dozens of families – and perhaps as many as 200 – pulled their kids out of the high school permanently.

Many of the parents apparently are members of the Christ Apostolic Temple in Des Moines, which teaches a biblically based doctrine of rejecting the world's values. One wonders why it took this much provocation for parents to comprehend the extent of child abuse now pervasive in government schools throughout the U.S. But, the good news is they finally got it!

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This is the best way to reform education in the U.S.:

1) Get your own child out of the government schools. 2) Encourage your friends and neighbors to do the same. 3) Organize a massive school tax revolt!

One of the least effective ways to bring about education reform is a frontal attack against the teachers unions. The Utah and California voucher referendums were proof enough of that.

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Metmom,

School and homeschool ping.

[Man50D]

It would be difficult to maintain a teachers union when there is no one to teach.

[metmom]

That’s a lot of kids out of one school. I’ll bet that send their heads spinning.

[Vicki]

They tried this when my kids were in jr. high school. They called it opposite day, my kids told me all the guys were dressing like girls and the girls were dressing like guys, I threw a fit. I called the school and expressed my feelings to the principal. Of course she dismissed me as being an over reactive parent, so I called the newspaper where I used to work. My kids came home the next day to tell me the “event” had been cancelled.

[RockinRight]

My wife and I have no kids yet but are moving more towards homeschooling all the time.

[davisfh]

Happy to say that my daughter (now forty) finished high school in a Catholic girl’s school and is a successful adult. It might have been otherwise had we not acted when we did.

[metmom]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

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[metmom]

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[theBuckwheat]

Homeschooling our daughter was for my wife and I the most wonderful experience. As I praise, I fully understand it is not for every family. However, by abandoning the factory school model, the homeschooling environment allows the child to run with a subject until their curiosity is satisfied. In the factory model, the lesson plan drives the lock-step subject matter of the day. A child that cannot keep up is slowly left behind. A child that is not interested at that moment in their lives cannot say no, and a child that hungers for the few days of coverage of a subject cannot say, please tell me more.

Further, the parents not only benefit by being able to spend time with their child in order to not only convey the subject matter but the moral implications of the topic, the parents themselves get to revisit topics they have long allowed to rust frozen in their own minds.

It is beyond bizarre that a liberty-loving people would allow government to be any more involved in the education of their own children beyond giving them financial help and providing education standards that every child would be expected to at least meet.

[G8 Diplomat]

I went to government public school for all twelve years. I hated it. But I still have my brain, that’s all that matters. Sometimes it’s a good thing that kids don’t pay attention in school....they miss all the propaganda and liberal agenda BS that’s thrown at them.

[abercrombie_guy_38]

I’m proud to say I was educated at a “government” school.

I’ve said it on FR before and I’ll say it again, many of the kids I have seen/been around/friends with who have been “educated” at private and religious schools (or homeschooled) make me thank my lucky stars my parents sent me to public school.

[darkangel82]

I only went to public school for six years. The local school system was good back then, I’m not sure I would send my kids there now, if I had any.

[mysterio]

My parents are both public school teachers, and I went to public schools as well. My parents are dedicated, and they devote their lives to helping (not indoctrinating) kids. I got out of public schools what I put in. I suspect it’s that way in most cases. The common denominator in good public school education and good homeschool education is parental involvement.