We need to fight so that eventually we retake our public schools. But meanwhile, we need to take our children’s educations into our own hands. We homeschooled. It was inexpensive. What is the biggest cost? That the teaching spouse not work. I bought little workbooks, went to the library for books, paper costs little, old encyclopedia set cost $10. Our son got VERY HIGH SAT scores.
We might reform public education, but it will be a grain of sand at a time, one teacher who gets it in her particular classroom, IF her Principal lets her do it her way.
The Catholic schools were formed for this very reason, long ago. The public schools were teaching secular subjects even then. Catholic nuns/ diocese stepped in and created the schools THEY envisioned. And taught for free.
There is always a way. The cost is in time and effort expended, as it is with anything of true value.
That has to start with holding school board members accountable to a big bunch of like-minded 'stakeholders'.
Learn of, illuminate and attack leftist, anti-American, homosexual and anti-Christian indoctrination in the schools.
Flood board meetings, inboxes and mailboxes with concerns and demands.
Demand that reprints of the NEA's 1951 edition of "The American Citizens Handbook" be given to every student as a reading assignment.
This would be a start.
I don’t disagree with you, but those were the days when the problem with the public schools was that they were largely Protestant, and strongly prejudiced against Catholics.
Now the Protestants have basically been outlawed, too. I think a coalition of Catholics and Evangelicals, working together, could gradually straighten this out. Such a coalition on reforming the schools should be possible, as it has been in the right to life movement. That, too, has been painfully difficult and slow, but if not for the RINO betrayal we would be in reach of our goal. And we are still going to press forward on that front.