Posted on 08/29/2013 10:08:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Yes, it was intentional.
You just described the only private school in my county. It's where the kids expelled from the public schools wind up - if their parents can afford it.
Of course we KNEW that people like the Obamas, Clintons, and Gores were bad people.
Another right wing attack on Obama.
Comments like this, and "smoking or drinking or (fill in the blank) around kids is child abuse" does nothing but diminish the term - just like leftists slinging around the term racism.
sending your kid to private school shoes you have been paying some attention
Not where I live, that's where the public school rejects end up.
Exactly! Thankfully, I don't know too many parents like that and most of my daughter's friends also have parents instilling conservative principles into their children, as we are doing with ours.
My wife is the new principal of the Catholic School that both of my children went to. Today was the first day of classes. I couldn’t be more proud!
Good to know. We home school.
Well, I guess I suck then. Boy, she really told me. (/s)
Most of the people working in DC send their kids to private school above a certain GS level.
Amazing how true it is that liberalism is a derangement.
Had a coworker tell me it was “evil” to send my child to a religious school. She said if you don’t like the public school, save up and move to a “better” district.
Maybe it is the “religious” part of the private school decision that she found so bigotedly wrong?
The pogroms are coming. Christians have already been fired from their jobs because the ( gasp!) are “bigoted” Christians.
Next, step re-education camps, martyrdom ( possibly already happening in the U.S.) and secret religious meetings in the basements of very trusted followers of Christ. .
Tell you what, find me a public school that starts Spanish classes in kindergarten (to non-native speakers), that has weekly memory verses and trips to chapel, that requires you to sign a letter of commitment of parental involvement and holds you to it, that kicks out kids that are troublemakers, that provides a quality education with a God-centered world view, that has no LBGTABCXYZ teaching or clubs or speakers or other crap, that has a student pastor, that doesn’t teach middle schoolers how to put a condom on a banana, that respects parents’ rights, and that isn’t beholden to the liberal agenda of the NEA/democrats/state/satan, then maybe we’ll talk. Until then, the only time my child sets foot in one of your government schools is when he goes with me to vote, assumedly, against your politician of choice.
Home schooling has gotten so popular that the state of Texas now offers an online homeschooling program - complete with commercials about how it is a solution to scheduling problems. As if scheduling, instead of curriculum, was the main reason.
“I forget...is is Slate or is it Salon...which publishes from a mental institution?”
ROTFLMAO
(thank you)
IMHO
“Predictable and tiring, these liberals are.”
More exhausting than tiring.
IMHO
Congratulations!
“Home school is another alternative but there should be a price to pay for the failures that occur there too. At the end of every school year each home schooled child should be tested in an independent facility to make sure they have been taught to grade level. If they pass their parents/teachers should have a monetary reward. If they fail the parent/teacher should face a fine.”
As government schools are pretty much an unmitigated failure, I'd suggest that the government clean up its own act before trying to infringe on the rights of homeschoolers.
Get back to me when you propose to punish public school teachers whose charges fail to progress sufficiently, as judged against standards derived from the typical success of homeschoolers, including loss of job, forfeiture of assets, and prison terms.
Government has no business sitting in judgement of homeschoolers. It is homeschoolers who should judge the public schools, and especially their near-universally incompetent teaching personnel.
sitetest
My wife spent 15 years working in public schools in Atlanta (Gwinnett) and when it came time for our kids to enter school she quit and we now have them in a private Christian school. We pay a crapload of money for it but given what she experienced in the war zone of public school it is totally worth every penny.
This dumbass author is telling parents that they are bad people for not sacrificing their child for the great good. That is, quite simply, an evil thing to say.
You used the word “should” a lot in your post. “Should” inherently means there is a standard being applied, which begs the question of why the standard has any authority.
By biblical standards, the gov’t SHOULD keep its nose out of the affairs of the family, which SHOULD have full say over the education of its children.
If no schooling is the choice of the family, no one else has a right to force a different approach on them.
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