just damn...
Posted on 06/09/2009 9:02:33 AM PDT by kellynla
Ping!
This ALL about Communism...plain & simple!
Yeah, it’s a guy with a bow, for hunting deer...
Our deer population in our local park is so high,
after you quit your job, you can go bow hunting for venison...
Washington State is also cutting back on the state-subsidized health insurance program, but Oregon, of all places, just announced that many tens of thousands of NEW slots will be opened in theirs.
Some families in WA that are losing coverage have found that their children can go onto Medicaid. I realize that is being cut in CA also, but keep an eye out for other opportunities.
Wy wife and I just priced a private policy (high deductible and no prescription coverage) and it is under $300 for both of us. We are in our 50s. The $1000 quote for you seems high. The premium for kids in usually quite low.
Parochial school is expensive, but worth every penny of it!
My child will never attend public school.
“Read the California Education Code?”
No thanks. LOL
We’ll just keep “home schooling” down here.
I am “down here” too (Houston)...yes Home Schooling works but for anyone who really wants to change the bigger picture, they will have to work from this angle. I did it and I know. I changed my school district by making them comply with their own code. They wanted me to just put my child in private schooling because he was so far beyond his level. But I thought if I could change what the district offered to gifted kids that I could effect improvement for more than just my own child. I did that and now instead of pulling the kids out one day a week and busing them to an ineffective class and calling it enrichment, the district has a full time in-school program. You pay for the public schools so the option of changing them is another viable option which reaps certain benefits and has its downside too.
Not exactly.
My daughter was a math teacher last year in a Texas Catholic school ( K-8). All the teachers and principal voted for Obama and took every opportunity to show the students how thrilled they were that a partial birth supporting black man was president.
My kids went to a Catholic school and if this happened I would be talking with the Pastor and the Parish Council. I would bet they knew nothing about it. Better yet, contact the local Knights.
Children should not be used as political pawns to advance the agenda of adults.
As a parent, I believe that I must do what is best for my child first. That is my duty before God to do that. As for helping other children, the best I can do for them is to work for the complete shut down of the government schools, and I am working at that.
While an especially dedicated citizen might make a minor improvement in the government schools ( for instance improving gifted classes) government schools are **fundamentally** flawed. They must teach **all** subjects from an atheistic worldview. Government schools teach all child to compartmentalize their lives into secular-atheistic-public and private-religious. Government schools teach all children that religious belief must be suppressed and hidden from view as if it were shameful. ( Like a bathroom activity.)
How could they not know about it? Are they asleep?
By the way, our family is not Catholic. Personally, I am not about to tell any bishop or priest how to run their church or schools. ( My daughter isn’t either. She did not renew her contract though for next year.)
Home schooling.
Mainly because the priests are not in the school all day. In my opinion, ever since Nuns stopped teaching in most schools, the education has changed but is still better than public education.
You are not expected to “tell” them how to run the school but you have the right and the obligation to voice your concerns. If they disagree, you also have the right to take your child out of the school. If the Pastor didn’t agree with me, and I felt strongly about it, I would write the Bishop in case he didn’t know what was going on. To many times I have heard “Why didn’t you say something?”
“If they (children) do, they would be directed to talk to their family, and they would be allowed to disagree,” McMahon said.”
That’s nice, they’ll be permitted to disagree. It might be confusing for a first grader to be told one thing at home and then another at school. Could create cognitive dissonance. It may come to a point where students don’t believe anything their teachers have to say about anything, and that could cause a lack of respect. Of course, if it goes the other way, and parents feel their kids are not respecting their values, they will make other arrangements for their kids’ education. Either way, the school loses.
It's a nasty cycle. My husband and I (and everyone else!) pay these huge insurance premiums because people use the hospitals and emergency rooms as dr.'s offices. My parents are both nurses (and no, dad isn't gay...lol!!) and you should hear some of the stories they tell about people who live at hospitals because they have no place to go and the hospital can't force them out - but they have no insurance and no way to pay. So guess who it gets passed on to?
Sickening.
Pray for this to stop.
just damn...
I’ve heard that there’s a recall of certain school board members in the works by many, many angry parents. I don’t think this thing is settled by any means.
You seem to have acted in the best interests of your children. They are in the gifted program, and, it is likely the very best educational situation for them. I would guess that, a "change in the bigger picture" was merely a side benefit.
Are you suggesting that parents use their children as pawns to "change the bigger picture"? It is my opinion, that when it comes to the education of a child the parents should put his child first and do what is in the child's best interest.
The child should not be used to advance a political cause. In this case "change the bigger picture" of government schooling.
I did it and I know. I changed my school district by making them comply with their own code. They wanted me to just put my child in private schooling because he was so far beyond his level. But I thought if I could change what the district offered to gifted kids that I could effect improvement for more than just my own child. I did that and now instead of pulling the kids out one day a week and busing them to an ineffective class and calling it enrichment, the district has a full time in-school program. You pay for the public schools so the option of changing them is another viable option which reaps certain benefits and has its downside too.
In our family's case, the government school gulag had a similar gifted program of taking the children out one day a week. They were not about to change their policy. I had a choice. I could waste a lot of my time, and sacrifice my own children's opportunities on the altar of "changing the bigger picture".( As one poster stated, "Like throwing a grape at Jupiter.") Or... I could educate my children myself. The second option was the best choice from **my** children.
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