[pops88]

My 16 year old daughter is a university sophomore. Homeschooling can seem daunting, but it really isn’t that hard to do. There are many, many resources readily available with the iternet. Public school will indoctrinate and demoralize your son, potentially destroying a promising future. I wish you the best.

[CelesteChristi]

Homeschool. Do some research online for resources. It's likely much easier than you think. You'll never regret it and your child will be forever grateful.

[iowamark]

I am seriously considering pulling him out of school and home schooling.

Your instincts are, of course, correct. Get him out of the government schools.

[Navy Patriot]

What is your child doing in public skewl?

[so_real]

Find yourself an old-fashioned Christian religious private school. I don't suppose you are anywhere near Gwinnett County? Sola Fide elementary is a WELS school : "Sola Fide is also a part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). WELS churches operate over 300 elementary schools and nearly 400 preschools. According to the U.S. Department of Education, WELS teachers and principals spend more time in classroom instruction and in school-related student activities than any other school group in the United States. More student-teacher contact leads to more learning and higher achievement. This rich heritage of education in Lutheran schools is a big part of what makes Sola Fide a great school."

[ThunderSleeps]

My oldest made it through public "school" with some semblance of common sense. (kudos to him) We've pulled our youngest out and off to a combination private/home school.

I have both friends and relatives in education. Every single one of them despises no child left behind. All that means is kids get shoved up and out, ready or not. Along the way it had dumbed-down the classroom so that they can be shoved up and out. Mix in a healthy dose of socialism via the teachers unions... Public "schools" are worthless.

[Nachum]

Here is a human right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGPe0jDCUqI&feature=fvst

Here is tolerance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXXkeppex3Y

[P-Marlowe]

If you love your children, then how can you entrust their education to these godless left wing brainwashers? If you aren’t working outside the home, then who better to educate them than you?

[Norm Lenhart]

Short version:

My daughter had to do a History final essay on the American revolution. She came home with a respectable grade and I smile.

The essay ENDED at Paul Revere’s ride.

I asked her where the actual ‘war’ was in her essay She said, “Dad, that’s all they taught us.”

That’s all you will ever need to know to understand why this country is screwed. Apply that knowledge accordingly.

[wardaddy]

Hey man.

make that school hear you roar

mine hears me...they know we are suffer no lib fool righties

and they tread with care around my kids

i raise hell at them...

and wifey is even worse about than me

little secret:

even the most daft poster here is more informed than the numbnut fembots in charge of teaching your kids and trying to make little queers out of your male kids and Faludis out of yer girls

anywhere in the US...even in Dixie...the textbooks are eat up with political correctness

man hating, white hating and Christ bashing and most teachers just regurgitate

but if you challenge them, they fold out of fear and ignorance immediately

or you can homeschool ..

private Christian schools are barely less PC except maybe some fundie ones....but here in Middle TN the Church of Christ schools still plaster Mandela and MLK all over the walls in February like public

and secular private schools are actually even more liberal

anyhow...you can train yer kid to know BS from school on history and lit and environmental crap...make sure to stay on top of it and help them train the teacher

she gives out bad grades just for disagreeing then get yer butt down there and let em hear ya

54

father of 5 from 5-23

who grew up when America really was beautiful and safe and kids had both parents and the vast majority of minorities were not anti white and behaved

it was Leave it to Beaver largely or The Brady Bunch or My Three Sons

be prepared and get tough

political correctness made a loud protective Jewish momma outta me at my kids school...they know I will respond

[saywhatagain]

I was confronted with this bull twenty plus years ago. homeschooling or private school was not an option.

My actions

We all can make a difference one person at a time. And I encourage you to do the same.

NEVER be confrontational. Always be calm when confronting the teachers and administrators. They stop listening and you get branded a crazy forever.

Monitor and review your childrens school work weekly. Never raise your voice or hit your head on the wall. The kids do not understand and it only scares them.

Never talk above their head but always talk to them on their level of understanding

Arm yourself with knowledge regarding the subject matter they are teaching. Learn how THEIR system works. Not the way you think it should work. (remember . . . do not hit your head on the wall. It only hurts you and hard to explain to the neighbors)

Slowly but surely begin objecting to the study material and teaching material in a sane and reasonable manner. Offer solutions . . . calmly

You will NOT see results for a long time.

Many many years later I can look back and smile and say to myself, a difference was made.

one person at a time, one word at a time and shall i dare say in the spirit of love of the Christian doctrine

[Ajnin]

They aren’t supposed to know antyhing about human rights because it is all liberal bullshit.

[agrarianlady]

Just do it.

[TheConservativeParty]

Here in WI, there is no way in hell I’d have a kid in a public school. No way. Home school or Christian school only. Public schools are nothing more than socialism factories funded by force using the property tax. What a scam. They’re the mob,taking our money by force, using it to “educate” children, while they all get rich off overburdened taxpayers. Bunch of freakin’ leeches. (wait, let me tell you how I really feel about public school employees....)

[BobL]

“Damn....I am seriously considering pulling him out of school...”

Be thankful that you’re finding out early enough to give your kid a chance at life. Many of us out here have been SCREAMING for people to give up the granite and the plasma and get their kids out of those institutions. Of course we’re laughed at, since bad schools ONLY exist in ‘other’ neighborhoods.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Tolerance,” to lefties, means shutting down all opposition and shutting off their communications. The most intolerant people in the world are “tolerant” leftists.

My own daughter, when I was visiting her in college, told me they didn’t allow people to watch Fox news in their house. She still doesn’t understand the irony regarding tolerance.

[Anima Mundi]

Tolerance is accepting a meaning for the word tolerance that does not agree with your own meaning...in other words, allowing what you disagree with. Did you find out what answer the teacher was hoping for? Maybe you could volunteer in the classroom a couple of half days a week for awhile and get a broader sense of what is going on there. Public school is no place for a kid these days though.

[little jeremiah]

Pull him out, please. Many people know a lot about online and other kinds of excellent cirrcula (sp?).

The indoctrination will only get worse. You will never, ever regret home schooling and neither will your son.

[SaraJohnson]

We don’t do global socialist “human rights”. We have constitutional rights. He needs to know about his country’s bill of rights.

Tolerance to liberals means celebrating the sexual behaviors of homos and the race hate doctrines of diversity. In America we demonstrate tolerance when we respect and protect the constitutional rights of everyone without regard to religion, sex and race or nation of origin. As Christians, we are supposed to treat others the way we would want to be treated. That is the way we do American-American tolerance.

You could also not really worry about his grades this young. He’s got a silly lefty teacher who is using a UN curriculum most likely.

If you can and he wants to do it, homeschool him. Put him back into the herd after middle school if you want to. Homeschooling is a lifestyle so be ready if you are going t o do it.

[JohnGalt1983]

Private schools are progressive indoctrination centers, and compulsory attendance is essentially holding by force, which would be illegal for a private citizen to do. I oppose public schools. That said, when my kids are old enough to understand (which I definitely think an eight year old is,) I will absolutely teach about human rights and tolerance - in their true sense.

“That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural Rights… among which are the Enjoyment of Life and Liberty, with the Means of acquiring and possessing Property, and pursueing and obtaining Happiness and Safety.”

— George Mason. Virginia Declaration of Rights, May, 1776.

How can you consistently want protect them from being broken by the progressive system, if they don't understand that they have their own rights and ends independent of the state. Without a true understanding of their own human rights, they can never defend themselves from the state. Your understanding of their intellectual rights is exactly what's inspiring your indignation at their forced indoctrination.

As for tolerance, my kids will be understand Kant's categorical imperative, and treat each human as a means unto itself. Without that understanding, how can they be empowered to get the state off their backs?

I'm the conservative’s conservative, but if we let knee-jerk responses to the progressive’s perverted use of these terms lead us to reject them ourselves, we surrender our ability to defend ourselves.

Look at what's happened with “civil liberties” over the years. Groups like the ACLU have been hypocritical and sacrificed the liberties of those with whom they disagreed for the benefit of those who advanced their agendas - take school prayer for example. A true understanding of civil liberties would restrict anyone from interfering with the prayer's right to pray, but the ACLU has repeatedly decided that forceful interference with the prayer's right to practice his religious rights somehow protected the rights of others (as if a right was the sort of thing that be weighed and traded on a utilitarian basis.) Irrational judges have made decisions like rewarding a trespasser damages for injuries sustained on the trespasee’s land, and now conservatives think worrying about our rights in criminal courts is wrong (even though it was the court's disregard for property rights that made such a decision possible. Now we, as conservatives, rally behind acts like the military commissions act, the patriot act, and NDAA because complaining about civil liberties makes us “one of them.” Just look at Lindsey Graham's “when they ask for a lawyer, you tell them shut-up” line.

Let's not sacrifice ourselves and our children in an attempt to reject progressivism. Let's empower ourselves and our children by espousing the values that made us a great country - freedom and liberty, which depend entirely on a true understanding of human rights and tolerance. And yes, get your kids out of the public school if you want them to have a chance at true freedom.